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Old 04-05-2008, 09:30 PM   #42
dcircle
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intro to neuroscience at brown is so well taught, it's one of the most popular courses at the whole school
BN001 : It's Hip, It's Fun... Oh, Yes... It's Neuro 1

the only neuroscience text written for undergrads was authored by three brown professors who also teach the intro course

wonderful suport for undergrad research and the only program in the country with an NIH partnership
04-071 (Brown/NIH Graduate Partnership)

a special relationship with woods hole biological laboratory--home to many nobel laureates and nobel winning discoveries
Marine Biological Laboratory

rockstar faculty include:

leon cooper (nobel laureate)
Leon N. Cooper - Biography

john donoghue (inventor of BrainGate)
06-002 (BrainGate)

david berson (discovered the eye's third photoreceptor)
01-080 (New Photoreceptor)

james simmons (known on campus as "batman")
U.S. Navy Looks to Bats, Dolphins for Better Sonar

...and many others
:: DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSCIENCE :: BROWN UNIVERSITY ::
Brown University Brain Sciences
Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Brown University
Brown Medical School Department of Clinical Neurosciences Program in Neurosurgery :: Neurosurgery Foundation ::
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