{"id":46,"date":"2020-05-25T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2025-04-17T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:42:44","slug":"phd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/phd\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD 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                        PhD Program: Neuroscience\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary field, encompassing different aspects of psychology, biology, chemistry, neurophysiology, genetics and epidemiology. Doctoral students will work alongside top researchers in state-of-the-art facilities in microscopy, histology, neurochemistry, behavioural analysis, electrophysiology and molecular genetic analysis. PhD students will have the opportunity to develop research projects aimed at finding the answers to mental health diseases including addiction, depression, Parkinson\u2019s disease, obesity, dementia and traumatic injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d 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-phd\/\">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>Social neuroscience<\/li>\n\n\n\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>Sleep and health<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Effects of environmental toxins and vulnerability to mental disorders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brain development<\/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>Neuronal activity in the human brain during cognitive 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\/bC3fXwmXgek\" 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. 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