Welcome to Neuroscience!
Neuroscience at George Mason University is an interdisciplinary field, well grounded in biology, chemistry and psychology. Neuroscience across Mason is under the auspices of the Neuroscience Advisory Council (NAC). The undergraduate degree in Neuroscience is a Bachelors in Science, administered by the Psychology department in the College of Humanties and Social Sciences; contact Jane Flinn for academic questions and issues. The graduate degree in Neuroscience is Ph.D., administered by the College of Science. See admissions for more information, or contact Melissa Hayes (mhayes5 @ gmu.edu) for questions not addressed by the website.
The neuroscience faculty at Mason consists of a unique blend of traditional experimental and theoretical scientists. They are tenured in many departments, including Pscyhology, Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular and Microbiology, Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
Research focuses on the broad areas of behavior, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, computational modeling, and informatics. Some of the key research initiatives currently underway at George Mason University include:
- effects of drugs and alcohol on behavioral and neurological development;
- cellular organization and connections of sensory processing areas in fish;
- biochemical dynamics in disorders of the basal ganglia;
- computational methods for simulation of complex biological systems;
- description and generation of neuronal morphology;
- adaptive control for stabilization of epilepsy;
- role of metals in memory and Alzheimer's disease;
- biochemical/metabolic simulations at the organism level;
- cellular and sub-cellular models of associative learning.