Does a college minor hold it's own weight??

jessiehl
Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:50:17 +0000

Biopsych (or neuropsych) is basically a subfield of psych that is heavily focused on the biological basis of psychological phenomena. Such programs emphasize areas like “neuroendocrinology” or “the neural basis of behavior”. To quote from the info page for Hunter College’s biopsych program, “Biopsychology interrelates the concepts and methods of neuroscience, cognitive science, the biological disciplines, and behavior analysis with experimental psychology.”

I know that Rutgers, UI-Chicago, UMass-Amherst, Penn State, and SUNY Stonybrook all have relevant programs. Sometimes the programs are called biopsychology, other times they have names like “neuroscience and behavior”.