Question by Star: Neuroscience?
What sort of subjects should I take to pursue a degree in Neuroscience or biomedical sciences??
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Answer by Dorothy K
If you plan to study Neuroscience at the undergraduate or graduate level in college, you will advised to take courses in biology, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, mathematics and statistics, and the required general education courses. A general course in psychology wouldn’t hurt either, since a lot of psychiatrists and psychologist also work closely with neuroscientists to figure out what medication would work best for a client and his/her presenting symptoms. The belief being that the neurons in the brain are not communicating information properly with each other and the medication will allow for it to return to normal.
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Are you in high school or college? I’m guessing high school.
Either way, I’m in my first year at college and I’m a Neuroscience major, so I hope I can help.
The classes I took in high school that I feel really help me in my neuroscience class were Psychology and Biology. If your school offers molecular biology, then that would probably be helpful too.
For Neuroscience and any other biomedical science, you’ll want to have a good background in Bio, Chemistry and Physics (to a lesser extent).
I also read books outside of school that had to do with Neuroscience. You should check Oliver Sacks- he’s a neurologist who writes really interesting books about his patients.
Good luck!
You haven’t said whether this is for an undergraduate or graduate degree. At the undergraduate level, there are required courses in biology, chemistry, and biochemistry, along with basic educational materials. If you intend to pursue an advanced degree in the neurosciences after you have obtained your bachelor’s degree in another field, you should consider it to be an obligation to have taken courses in the harder life sciences, such as biochemistry, genetics/molecular biology, and in chemistry (through Organic II). It has been my experience that students with degrees from other fields and with limited exposure to the life sciences will find the rigors of graduate school to be very challenging.