Neuroscience is the study of the brain, from behavior to emotion to thought. Mental disorders have always been challenging, but new imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can detect brain processes in real time and help us to recognize and cure pathologies. We prepare you with a firm background in biology, psychology and chemistry. Then you investigate how the physical system supports our subconscious and conscious experiences, and explore phenomena like animal behavior from an evolutionary viewpoint. Cognitive psychology courses taught by psych professors are a powerful and uncommon feature of our program. These courses delve into learning, emotions, moods—how we react to the world in the ways that make us uniquely human. Our students enjoy diving into lab work early on and designing projects that are intellectually their own. We mentor you, but you are the driver of questions. We get you thinking like a neuroscientist right away.

There is a huge explosion of research in neuroscience. It’s a big frontier for new discoveries because of the wealth of new research techniques and the resulting new data. Neuroscience is an outstanding background for medical school. Many medical schools are looking for students with grounding in humanities and social science so they can treat patients as whole individuals in complex communities. Our alumni have gone on to grad school at Johns Hopkins, Albert Einstein Medical School, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the University of Maryland. Others teach, work in the pharmaceutical industry and are even doing neuroeconomics for marketing, studying subconscious mechanics that influence consumer choices.