MRes Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MRes (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £15,400
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £35,700

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

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International student CAS deposit

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This unit will guide you through methodological, experimental, practical and ethical issues encountered in cutting-edge neuropsychological and clinical neuroscience research. You will learn about neuroimaging and other neuroscience techniques in a module that combines a basic-science perspective with a number of clinical case-study perspectives. You will examine how theories of cognitive neuroscience can be informed by evidence from converging neuropsychological and neuroimaging findings and explore how they are applied in healthcare settings.

• To give you a critical appreciation of neuropsychological and cognitive neuroscience methods, and the ability to assess the advantages and limitations of each method.
• To be able to select and justify a choice of methods appropriate to a specified research question.
• To deepen your understanding of the range of experimental, practical and ethical issues associated with working with clinical populations and user groups.
• To understand how to address specific experimental, practical and ethical issues in the design of clinical neuroscience research.

• Demonstrate an understanding and working knowledge of neuropsychological assessment
• Demonstrate a good working knowledge of neuroimaging and complementary neuroscience techniques
• Demonstrate a good understanding of, and ability to evaluate, the relative strengths of different methods in the context of clinical research
• Select and optimise, and justify appropriate research methods for research on a clinical population of choice
• Demonstrate an understanding of, and the ability to address, the experimental, practical and ethical issues associated with working with clinical populations and user groups.

Semester 2, weekly 2-hour seminars, with practical worked examples in class