Master's Degree in Neurosciences

The master's degree is intended for applicants interested in the following issues:

• How the human brain codes colour vision or oral discourse.
• The molecular and cellular bases of drug addiction.
• Why neurons do not regenerate spontaneously.
• The physiological mechanisms of complex behaviours, such as memory and learning.
• Understanding psychiatric disorders from a biological viewpoint.
• The advances made in pharmacological and regenerative therapies to treat neurodegenerative disease and central nervous system trauma.
• The use of animals in experiments to study neurological disease.
• The master's degree Neurosciences broadly addresses these issues and many others.

Learning objectives

The general objectives of the master's degree are as follows:

• To acquire cross-disciplinary knowledge to ensure a multidisciplinary vision of the tasks performed by scientists.
• To develop the ability to apply the scientific method, using creativity, logic and critical thinking.
• To update molecular and cellular knowledge and integrate this knowledge in order to address topics such as understanding, preventing and treating diseases of the nervous system.
• To attain training as scientists in the biomedical field who can then act as bridges between basic and clinical research.
• To promote interaction between the academic and business worlds, and foster the development and management of R&D centres and research foundations.
• To attain training as an expert in the biomedical field of the neurosciences who can conduct teaching.