Neuroscience

The Neuroscience program, housed in the BioSciences Department, provides a strong interdisciplinary education covering the breath of fundamental disciplines on which neuroscience is based and includes multiple opportunities for experiential learning. Neuroscience uses diverse methodologies to investigate the brain and its relationship to the mind, and includes the analysis of brain structures related to specific cognitive processes and representations, investigations of the biochemical processes that occur in brain functions, and the interactions and correlations among the brain, behavior, and biology that can be observed and modeled. The primary aim of the neuroscience program is to provide an understanding of how the cognition and behavior of organisms are encoded in neural processes. Such an understanding of the brain, bringing to bear many types of knowledge, is necessary as a basis for understanding and solving many practical problems including but not limited to: neurophysiology of disease; treatment for pathologies related to aging, stroke, autism, and hearing and other impairments; human behavior relating to risk, addiction, and social pathologies; memory, learning, and acquisition of literacy; neural basis of emotion and its relation to human perception and behavior.