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What is the biological basis of consciousness, memory, emotions, sensation? The brain remains one of the final unexplored frontiers of human knowledge. In addition to these basic questions about the workings of the brain, the neural bases for mental disorders, neurodegeneration, and other common brain dysfunction remain to be solved.
The field of neuroscience as a research discipline explores these broad topics. Sensory systems, behavior, neurodegeneration and memory loss, addiction and motor systems are just a few examples of areas within neuroscience that are current topics of study in our Program.
It is an exciting time to be a neuroscientist. New advanced techniques allow for macro (fMRI, Optigenetics) and micro (capillary electrophoresis, electrophysiology) analysis of neuronal systems. The Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Virginia is training experimentalists in basic science and translational research, always with an eye on disease relevance.
As such, we stress didactic learning for the first year and experiential laboratory-based learning in the second year and beyond. Our diverse and interdepartmental faculty allows for dynamic, cross-disciplinary training in a variety of basic and translational neuroscience research areas: Building and wiring the brain, Sensory systems, Neurodegeneration and brain injury, Behavior and epigenetics, Glial and immune cells in health and disease, Neurodevelopment, Neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric disorders, and the Neurobiology of ion channels.
