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NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROBIOLOGY

Biopsychology

Penn State University Park
The Department of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State University seeks applicants for its PhD program. Department provides interdisciplinary training emphasizing research methodology and targeted toward improving human health across the lifespan. Students develop understanding of biological and behavioral factors in health and disease using human or animal models. Faculty members have expertise in health psychology, behavioral medicine, addiction, epidemiology, social psychology, medical sociology, and cognition. Health promotion topics include international and minority health, women's health, sexual health, and substance abuse. Biological topics include cardiovascular disease, neuropharmacology, endocrinology, physiology, stress, genetics, psychopharmacology, and psychoneuroimmunology. Call 814-863-7256 or visit www.bbh.hhdev.psu.edu/grad/.

Stony Brook University, State University of New York
The biopsychology PhD program provides classroom and research training to prepare students for an independent career teaching and performing research at universities. Course work provides a solid understanding of behavioral neuroscience and neuroanatomy. The research spans a range of topics in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, including gene-behavior interactions, psychopharmacology, anatomical plasticity, human brain imaging, rodent models of psychopathology, clinical neuroscience, and neuroethics. Research labs have access to state-of-the-art facilities. Students can participate in interdisciplinary collaborations at Stony Brook, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and at other institutions.

Neuroscience

The University of Iowa
The Neuroscience PhD Program emphasizes interdisciplinary training in all levels of brain research: molecular, cellular, systems, and cognitive/behavior. More than 90 faculty members have active research programs in specialties that include developmental neurobiology, firing dynamics, growth factors, ion channels, neuroimaging, and neural bases of memory, language, and emotion. Strong lab rotation system guides students' choice of a dissertation sponsor. For further information, visit http://neuroscience.grad.uiowa.edu or e-mail gen-neuro@uiowa.edu.