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 Electives

    A student may take as few as 1 or as many as 5 elective courses per semester during the first two years. The number will depend upon the student's background and training needs. Elective courses can be chosen from those provided by the affiliated departments:
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biology, Cell Biology,  Pharmacology, Physiology and Biophysics, and Psychology.

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NEUROSCIENCE ELECTIVES:

  • NSCI 502 Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience / In-Depth (Fall - 3 credits)  Huntsman, Wolfe, & Vicini
    Fall 2007 Reading List

  • NSCI 504 Systems & Cognitive Neuroscience / In-Depth (Spring - 1 to 4 credits) Contact core 5,6,7 directors to set this up

  • NSCI 506 Neuroscience Survey II (Same as NSCI505, which, in adjacent years, always has a different list of speakers)  can be repeated in successive Fall semesters - 2 credits) Gale

  • NSCI-510 Neuropsychoimmunology (Given On Request - 2 credits) Bayer

  • NSCI-516 Stroke and Trauma (Spring - 3 credits) Rebeck and Wrathall
    Spring 2008 syllabus

  • NSCI-521 Elements of Imaging (Fall - 3 credits)  Van Meter
    Fall 2007 syllabus 
    More information about imaging at Georgetown

  • NSCI-523 Brain and Language (Fall; even years - 3 credits) Friedman and Ullman

  • NSCI-525 Functional Neuroimaging and Cognition (Spring - 2 credits) Eden

  • NSCI-526  From Neurons to Behavior:  Principles of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Fall - 3 credits)  Riesenhuber

  • NSCI-556 Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration (Fall - 3 credits)  Mocchetti & Burns  -  2007 Schedule

  • NSCI-601 Topics in Synaptic Transmission (Spring - 2 credits) Wolfe
    Spring 2008 Reading List

  • NSCI-905 Tutorial: Special Topics in Neuroscience (Fall and Spring - 1 to 6 credits) Contact individual faculty

  • NSCI-907 Tutorial:  Special Topics in Neuroscience - (Fall and Spring - 1 - 6 credits) Contact individual faculty

BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ELECTIVES:

  • BCHB-501 Graduate Biochemistry (Fall - 3 credits) Nakai

BIOLOGY ELECTIVES:

  • BIOL-363 Cell Biology (Fall - 4 credits) Henderson

BIOSTATISTICS

  • BIST-501  Biostatistics  (Fall - 3 credits) Rabie and Loffredo

  • BIST-502  Applied Biostatistics (Spring - 3 credits) Nie,  Loffredo, and Seillier-Moiseiwitsch 

CELL BIOLOGY ELECTIVES:

  • CBIO-517 Microscopic Anatomy (Histology) (Fall - 4 credits) Djakiew

  • CBIO-518 Embryology (Fall - 2 credits) Andrews

  • CBIO-539 Molecular Cell Biology (Spring - 4 credits) Roman

PHARMACOLOGY ELECTIVES:

  • PHAR-510  Neuropsychopharmacology (2 credits - on request)  Kellar

  • PHAR-511   Fundamentals of Pharmacology (Fall - 3 credits MTW 3-4) Wolfe

  • PHAR-516  Neuropharmacology (spring - 3 credits)  Wolfe & Kellar

  • PHAR-522 Drugs of Abuse (alternate Springs - 2 credits) Kellar & Bayer

  • PHAR-528 Modern Methods in Molecular Biology (Fall - 3 credits) Wolfe and Martin

  • PHAR-529 Applied Statistical Principles in Pharmacology (Spring - 1 credit) Pak

  • PHAR-584  Introduction to Pharmacology (Fall - 1 credit)

PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS:

  • PBIO-534 Cellular and Molecular Physiology (Fall - 4 credits) Sherman

  • PBIO-547 Molecular Neurophysiology (Fall; even years - 2 credits) Vicini

  • PBIO-584  Introduction to Physiology (Fall - 1 credit) Sherman

PSYCHOLOGY:

  • PSYCH-512 Cognitive Neuroscience (Spring - 3 credits) Vaidya

TUMOR BIOLOGY: