Research Methods in Neuroscience

NSC 512 is a graduate-level survey of the experimental toolkit neuroscientists actually use, how to design behavioral assays, record from neurons, image circuits, and probe molecular machinery, with the emphasis on knowing which method answers which question. You'll read primary publications, work through labs and individual study, give a presentation dissecting a specific technique, and write a project proposal that combines several approaches to attack a real research question. It's foundational for thesis work in the Neuroscience program, since picking the wrong method (or misreading someone else's) is what separates a publishable result from a wasted year.