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So, yeah, Neuroscience. There are 3 different areas of study that you can choose to “concentrate” on (you have to pick one of them and direct your upper-level neuroscience classes accordingly). The 3 areas are Systems Neuroscience, Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience, and Cognitive Neuroscience.</p>
<p>Systems neuroscience is the study of how the brain works with different systems of the body- the visual system, the auditory system, the somatasensory systems (feeling things when they bump into you on the tube…)</p>
<p>Cellular & Molecular neuroscience (usually shortened to Cell/Molec, or Hell/Molec if you’re feeling stressed about an upcoming test or something) is the study of how the brain works on a cellular and molecular level (go figure). You learn about developmental neuroscience (how the brain uses chemical cues to guide where axons should go in development) and you go really in-depth about the transmission of action potentials and also go even more in depth about the different systems. To give an example, if you’re studying the auditory system in Systems Neuro, you’ll learn how sound waves travel from the air to the cochlea and bones in the ear to the tympanic membrane which uses a place code to determine frequency which is then transmitted via hair cells to the brain. When you study it in Cell/Molec, you spend a week studying the hair cells (but you go really in depth and learn exactly what’s going on with them).</p>
<p>Cognitive neuro is kindof the more unrelated of the 3 concentrations- it deals with how we deal with the world around us. How does our brain break up language? How do our eyes process what we see into….what we see? A lot of what you study in Cog deals with people who have cognitive deficiencies (like, people who only see the left side of things… seriously!) so that’s pretty cool. The experiments in Cog are more like psych experiments than cell/molec experiments, because they deal with people.</p>
<p>You eventually have to pick which are you’d like your area of concentration to be, but don’t worry about deciding right now- you take a class in each of the areas before you have to decide. (Actually, you used to take Cog neuro, Systems neuro, and Cell/Molec as 3 separate classes, but the professors for Systems and Cell/Molec teamed up and turned the class into a year-long class called, I think, “The Nervous System”.) Regardless, you get your dose of all 3 before you have to pick a concentration. Then, AFTER you take the 3 foundation classes, you pick the area you like best and you center your 4 upper- level neuroscience classes that you have to take on your concentration. So, if you wanted to be a Systems concentration, you might elect to take the class on “Primate Brain Function”, or if you were a Cell/Molec concentration you might want to take Behavioral Endocrineology. There are a bunch of upper-level neuroscience electives and you get to shape your schedule.
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<p>The best people to ask about Neuroscience at JHU would be the people who are actually majoring in Neuro at JHU. On the Hopkins Forums, there are several Neuro students who are very familiar with the program and they would be the best people to ask. I do believe that Mandy, Kate, and Michelle are all Neuro majors.</p>
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