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Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience MSc

Postgraduate

In Sheffield ()

£ 6,300 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Duration

    1 Year

This course develops a broad range of practical skills essential for working in clinical, healthcare, academic and pharmaceutical industries. Learn generic and specialised skills including learning brain-behaviour relation and underlying neurophysiological mechanisms and theories.

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Subjects

  • Neuroscience
  • Imaging
  • Psychology
  • Design
  • Biomedical
  • Neurophysiological
  • Mechanisms
  • Techniques
  • EEG
  • TMS
  • FMRI
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Practical skills

Course programme

Gain hands-on experience with various techniques including EEG, TMS, fMRI recording and analysis, IQ and other clinical psychometric assessments. Designed for graduates of psychology and other related disciplines (biomedical sciences, neuroscience, psychophysiology), this course introduces you to various topics in cognitive neuroscience, normal and abnormal development of perceptual and higher level cognitive functions across the lifespan.

The course provides a robust academic framework across the broad spectrum of neuroscience and promotes the application of critical thinking and evaluative reasoning to the topics of study.

This multifaceted learning and teaching approach allows for reflection on your own progress utilising peer and tutor feedback. There might be a possibility to arrange a six month long work placement in the second semester, working with professional consultant neuropsychologists and clinical psychologists and assisting them in their daily routine work with patients.

This course prepares you for an academic or industrial career using psychological and neuroimaging methods like: electroencephalogram (EEG); transcranial magnetic stimulation; eye tracking techniques; visual psychophysics; further cognitive neuroscience postgraduate academic work; clinical psychology; Previous graduates of this course have gone on to: PhD research; postdoctoral research in clinical psychology; private research companies.

Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience MSc

£ 6,300 + VAT