Neuroscience at McMaster University

McMaster University is renowned for the creation of innovative teaching systems that accelerate student development. Nowhere is this more evident than in the breakthrough thinking that led to the creation of the neuroscience graduate program.

More than 70 faculty members from across the campus have collaborated on the development of McMaster’s neuroscience graduate program – a program designed to break through the conventional boundaries that inhibit leading-edge, interdisciplinary research and study. The program covers the broadest spectrum of neuroscience: cellular and molecular, clinical and health, cognitive, computational, neurotech and systems and behavioural.

Our program connects students with an internationally recognized faculty of researchers and scholars, working within a closely knit, resource-rich research environment.

Current research projects within the faculty are aimed at improving human health and discovery in areas such as neural development, behavioural genetics, perception, pain, motor learning, vision, hearing, cancer, Alzheimer disease, autism, Parkinson’s disease, depression, dementia, anxiety and neurotechnology.

Learn more about the neuroscience graduate program, our supervisors and the interesting research projects our students are doing.