Neuroscience and Cognition, a master programme

he neurosciences comprise a vast multidisciplinary research field aimed at understanding normal and pathological brain function. This multidisciplinary character makes the neuroscience field so very interesting and challenging. To be able to plan experiments, collect, interpret and analyse data in this field and to get an idea of how the brain really functions you need to know how to combine information from the different disciplines. Already such an easy thing as seeing provides a clear example of how complex neuroscience really is. When you see something familiar many different things occur in the brain. Cognition, since you recognise; plasticity of neurons, since you remember; signal transduction, what you see has to be "translated"; behaviour, you act because of what you see.

This international master of the UU will teach you these fundamental principles of neuroscience and will train you to practise neuroscience research in a multidisciplinary team. Students can choose, during the application procedure between four tracks Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Behavioural Neuroscience or Biophysics and Computational Neuroscience. All students follow the Fundamentals of Neuroscience and Cognition as introductory course. This course provides all students with a broad knowledge in all disciplines of neuroscience research.

To guide the students through their master programme, for each track a master-coordinator is present. The coordinator of the track Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience is Dr. P. de Graan (p.n.e.degraan@umcutrecht.nl). The coordinator of the track Cognitive Neuroscience is Prof. Dr. A. Postma (A.Postma@uu.nl). The coordinator of the track Behavioural Neuroscience is Dr. R. van Wezel (r.j.a.vanwezel@uu.nl). The coordinator of the track Biophysics and Computational Neuroscience is Dr. R, van Ee (r.vanee@uu.nl)