MBiol (Hons) Neuroscience Integrated Master's degree at the University of Leeds

You'll be provided with the opportunity to address a current human health-related challenge in a facilitated team-based environment. You'll develop the core skills necessary to tackle challenges which may cover topics such as the prevention and treatment of disease or healthy ageing.

This module covers essential skills for scientific research in the biosciences (including neuroscience). It includes practical application of these skills in a laboratory and clinical setting, as well as skills that support research design, hypothesis testing, scientific writing and data analysis.

You'll be introduced to the core concepts underpinning structure and function of human body systems, with an emphasis on how systems are structured, operate and interact. You will also discover how the environment, exercise and disease can disturb these core systems, and the underpinning physiology.

You'll learn about the fundamental processes of life, identifying the key concepts that underpin the biological processes in all living organisms, from bacteria to mammals. On completion, you'll have a comprehensive grounding in the molecular basis of life from the atomic scale up to cells.

This module will introduce you to the foundational neuroscience concepts of structure and function, and how systems level function emerges. These concepts will be explained using examples drawn from across the human nervous system in health and disease, and from the experimental approaches used in neuroscience research. Introductory Concepts in Pharmacology will introduce you to the foundational concepts underpinning pharmacology: pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, clinical pharmacology, and dr

You'll explore principles of experimental design hypothesis testing and develop more advanced skills in data evaluation using statistical methods. The module will also focus on dissemination of experimental findings using written reports and other communication formats.

This module introduces advanced concepts underpinning the study of neuroscience including the study of neuroanatomy and cellular neuroscience, followed by neurotransmission and neuropharmacology. It will also cover cardiac, circulatory and respiratory physiology as well as the underlying principles of the drug discovery process.

This module explores the anatomy and physiology of sensory and motor systems, as well as integration across different systems. Some aspects of this module will be framed in the context of disorders and conditions that alter sensory and motor functions.

Aligned with key UN sustainability goals, you'll build skills in knowledge application, analysis and scientific data presentation. Working as a team you'll research and create biomedical solutions to a global grand challenge, developing key academic and professional skills. This includes the critical analysis of research papers, communication, team-working, planning, organisation, and negotiation.

This module will develop the competencies – knowledge, skills, and behaviours – needed to succeed beyond your undergraduate degree. You'll be given ownership and responsibility for your professional development, allowing you to tailor your learning to support your capstone experience and address your specific professional developmental needs. It will facilitate your transition into the workplace, career or further study, thereby setting you up for success in your lifelong learning journey.

Throughout this module, you will: collect, analyse and interpret experimental data; carry out literature searches, reading and reviewing this literature to understand the scientific background to the data; present your research findings in a scientific written report and in a presentation. The techniques learnt and applied will be linked, as they will be different approaches to obtaining data that address the same research question. The module will use an integration of collected data from vario

This module is a preparatory research project, in which you will carry out a hypothesis-driven review of the scientific literature in a specific field, while also designing a research project to be carried out within that field. This will give the opportunity to gain a thorough grounding in a specific field of scientific research and design a project that will be carried out the following year (final year of the MBiol course), with the same project supervisor. In addition to a written dissertati

You'll develop the research skills to support your laboratory or other research or enquiry-based activities that you will undertake as part of your extended research project and to prepare for a career in a research environment. You'll develop skills to critically analyse published research. It will also expose you to current research trends in neuroscience, and to leading researchers in the field.