Bachelor [Neuroscience with Professional Training Year (MNeuro)] From Cardiff University

Neuroscience is the study of nervous systems, their component nerve cells and the functioning of the brain. The human brain contains one hundred thousand million such cells and how it works remains as one of the most alluring and baffling of all questions on the frontiers of understanding. Can the brain understand the brain? Can the brain understand the mind? Is the brain a giant computer or something more?

This degree will explore ways in which we can attempt to answer these questions, using approaches that range from the biochemistry and biophysics of the nerve cell to a psychologistÕs investigation of the machinery of the mind. The recent growth of this subject is due to the important contribution neuroscience is making to the understanding and treatment of mental and other neurological disorders.

Your third year is spent on a professional work placement related to your degree. Experience shows that this greatly enhances your subsequent employment prospects.

Although you may join the School on the BSc Neuroscience programme, your degree title remains flexible up until Year 3.Ê You can choose to stick with your original degree registration, or switch to another of our bioscience courses.Ê You can also choose to graduate with one of our 'exit' degrees, which include BSc Biomedical Sciences (Physiology) and BSc Biological Sciences (Genetics).