Minor Brain & Mind
Discover the fascinating world of the Brain

What happens inside our head to make us think and act? This intriguing question has occupied many generations of scientists and can now be answered in a better way than ever before, thanks to new technology and insights and due to the fact that classical disciplines like medicine, biology and psychology, have merged into a new multidisciplinary neuroscience hosted by our center. In the Minor Brain & Mind, five courses each address different aspects of brain and mind, from the basic question what cognition is and how genes drive development and behavior to disease mechanisms, like addiction, eating disorders or depression, and mind-machine interactions.
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Academic Skills: Each course focuses on developing one academic skill in-depth.

Focus Group: Third year BSc students with all relevant profiles: the Life Sciences (Biology,Biomedical Sciences, Health & Life) as well as alpha and gamma topics (sociology,psychology, economics, law etc.). The Minor Brain & Mind is designed for all students interested in the brain and its cognitive processes. It addresses links between neuroscience and other disciplines, for instance disease mechanisms and human health, decision making in economics, delinquent behavior in law, machine interfaces in robotics and artificial intelligence in psychology. Therefore, the Minor Brain & Mind is highly suitable for students with a broad interest and a wide scope. For students with specific ambitions in molecular neuroscience and neurogenomics, a dedicated Minor Biomolecular & Neurosciences is available, which prepares for the Master of Neuroscience also offered at CNCR.

Entry requirements: Direct access for all (inter)national Bachelor students

Language: English

Number of participants: 25 (200 max.)

Coordination: Prof. dr. Danielle Posthuma and Prof. dr. Matthijs Verhage (CNCR)

Dates:
Cognitive Neuroscience: week 36-39 (05.09.-30.09.2011)
Nature versus Nurture: week 40-43 (03.10.-28.10.2011)
Mechanisms of Brain Diseases: week 44-47 (31.10.-25.11.2011)
The Developing Brain: week 48-51 (28.11. - 23.12.2011)
Mind and Machine: week 2-5 (09.01.-03.02.2012)