Neuroscience - Colgate University

Neuroscience from Colgate University is a Campus Bachelor Neuroscience degree that prepares you for a Science career. Neuroscience is the study of brain-behavior relationships. The Neuroscience Program at Colgate is one of the first two established at undergraduate institutions in the U.S. While a growing number of institutions now offer an undergraduate major in neuroscience, a distinctive feature of Colgate's neuroscience program is its interdisciplinary faculty having appointments in the Department of Psychology, which includes a cell biologist/neurochemist, a zoologist/neurophysiologist, a physiological psychologist, and a cognitive neuropsychologist. Concentrators also take courses in the fields of chemistry, biology, physics, and psychology. In addition to a broad education, the program offers students the opportunity to focus their research interests on a variety of levels of nervous system functioning, ranging from the activity of single neurons to the behavior of complex organisms. Students may elect one of two routes to a concentration in neuroscience: behavioral neuroscience or cellular neuroscience . Behavioral neuroscience examines the relationship of the brain to complex behaviors of the organism, and cellular neuroscience focuses on the structure and function of cells and molecules in the nervous system. View more details on Colgate University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Neuroscience courses.