Graduate Program

Cognitive Neuroscience

The field of Cognitive Neuroscience studies the neural mechanisms underlying cognition. Methods employed in cognitive neuroscience include psychophysical experiments, functional neuroimaging, electrophysiological studies of neural systems and, increasingly, cognitive genomics and behavioral genetics.

Systems & Behavioural Neuroscience

Systems and Behavioural Neuroscience studies how neural circuits function to gain insights into perception, behaviour, thought and emotion. This approach strives to link levels of analysis from molecular to physiological mechanisms of higher-level mental processing. Studies in Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience cover the entire range of relevant biological and neural sciences, including anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, endocrinology, and pharmacology.

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary science that links the diverse fields of neuroscience, computer science, physics and applied mathematics. It serves as the primary theoretical method for investigating the function and mechanism of the nervous system.

Clinical & Health Neuroscience

This area brings together basic and clinical research to investigate mental health and neurologic disease. We study a wide range of conditions and disorders including mood disorders, pain, motor therapy, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Alzheimer's Disease, Autism, stroke and spinal cord injury.

Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience

This area involves the use of genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, immunocytochemistry, physiology, and anatomy to understand the function of the nervous system.

MiNDSGraduate Program

MINDS is a collaborative partnership among the Faculties of Science, Health Sciences, Engineering and Social Sciences. All four faculties are within a few minutes walking distance, facilitating interactions among graduate and postdoctoral students, as well as faculty.

Our goal is to attract the brightest graduate minds available each year to the field of neuroscience, by providing meaningful research opportunities in a collaborative, resource-rich environment.

MiNDS is a research intensive graduate program aimed at training the next generation of leaders in the field of Neuroscience. Student may enter directly to PhD or start in the Masters program and transfer to PhD during their first year of study.

Graduate students will work in an integrated research environment that covers 5 fields of study in Neuroscience. We have specific research expertise in the following areas of Neuroscience.