{"id":44,"date":"2020-05-25T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2025-04-17T05:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:28:37","slug":"msc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/msc\/","title":{"rendered":"MSc Program: Neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        MSc Program: Neuroscience\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>The brain: The final frontier. Often thought of as the most mysterious organ in the body, the brain holds the key to understanding behaviours as basic as breathing or as complex as thinking. Advances in neuroscience research are not only critical to understanding our behaviours but should play a role in finding cures for mental disorders and neurodegenerative disorders like depression or Parkinson\u2019s disease. The MSc degree trains students how to do cutting-edge neuroscience research in a nurturing environment. &nbsp;It offers considerable research experience from bench top to knowledge dissemination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students who enroll in the MSc program, and intend to continue into a PhD, may have the option of being fast-tracked into the PhD program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/graduate.carleton.ca\/cu-programs\/neuroscience-masters\/&quot;\">Program Details<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"faculty-research-highlights\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Faculty Research Highlights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Association between the immune system, stress and psychiatric disorders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neuroendocrine regulation of eating and metabolism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Effects of environmental toxins and vulnerability to mental disorders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plasticity and recovery of brain function<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neuronal mechanisms underlying learning and memory processes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Molecular and genetics mechanisms underlying behaviour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-section cu-section--white w-screen ml-offset-center px-4 md:px-6 lg:px-12\"><div class=\"cu-max-w-child-5xl space-y-6 md:space-y-10   cu-prose-first-last\"><figure class=\"cu-figure not-prose  max-w-full\"><div class=\"not-prose overflow-hidden bg-white shadow-lg max-w-full rounded-none\"><div class=\"relative none overflow-hidden w-full pb-[56.25%] border border-cu-black-100\"><iframe title=\"Videos Embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zEDnGfvIK9s\" class=\"cu-embed-iframe\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"capital-advantage\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Capital Advantage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ottawa is home to numerous federal government departments and large research labs such as Health Canada, Environment Canada and the National Research Council, as well as major medical research facilities in hospitals.&nbsp; Many career opportunities are just down the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/graduate.carleton.ca\/apply-online\/\">Apply Online Now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brain: The final frontier. Often thought of as the most mysterious organ in the body, the brain holds the key to understanding behaviours as basic as breathing or as complex as thinking. 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