Neuroscience

King’s College London

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

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Our Neuroscience MSc course will provide you with multidisciplinary training in a range of neuroscience topics, particularly those relevant to psychiatry and neurology. It seeks to equip graduates from a wide range of backgrounds for the next stage of their career, which may be either further full-time study in a neuroscience-related academic research environment, or employment in an academic, clinical or pharmaceutical organisation.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.

Key benefits
Appeals to students from a variety of backgrounds.
Offers specialised graduate training in several neuroscience subject areas, both clinical and non-clinical.
Aims to equip all graduates for the next stage of their career, usually through further full-time study in basic neuroscience in an academic research environment or in a taught clinical programme, employment in an academic, clinical or pharmaceutical organisation. Some students have entered scientific publishing.
Please note that the two year part-time programme runs on alternate years. The next intake will be September 2018.

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10 Cutcombe Road, SE5 9RJ

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Course programme

Year 1 Required Modules

The course is divided into taught and research modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

Students on this course are required to take:

  • Fundamental module 1 (30 credits)

  • Fundamental module 2 (30 credits)

  • Fundamental module 3 (30 credits)

Optional Modules

In addition, students take 30 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

  • B Neuroscience Research (30 credits)

  • B1 Psychiatric Genetics Research (30 credits)

  • B3 Developmental Neurobiology Research (30 credits)

  • B4 Neurodegeneration Research (30 credits)

  • B5 Neuroimaging Research (30 credits)

  • B7 Cognitive Neuroscience Research (30 credits)

  • B8 Neural Stem Cells and Nervous System Repair Research (30 credits)

Research modules
The research component will allow students to gain training and experience in hypothesis-driven academic research. Students also take 60 credits from a range of research modules that may typically include:

  • C Neuroscience (60 credits)

  • C1 Research project in Psychiatric Genetics (60 credits)

  • C3 Research project in Developmental Neurobiology (60 credits)

  • C4 Research project in Neurodegeneration (60 credits)

  • C5 Research project in Neuroimaging (60 credits)

  • C6 Research project in Brain networks and Tractography (60 credits)

  • C7 Research project in Cognitive Neuroscience (60 credits)

  • C8 Neural Stem Cells and Nervous System Repair Research (60 credits)

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