Neuroscience (Placement Year)

About this programme

Learn from experts in two highly-respected Lancaster University departments – Psychology, and Biomedical and Life Sciences We care about your future. BEE offers workshops, advice and opportunities to develop your employability skills through real-world experience and expert career guidance Our neuroscience degree will provide you with a deep understanding of the nervous system. You will study its role in human behaviour and brain disorders including schizophrenia, autism, mood disorders and dementia. Our brains and nervous systems work together to enable us to make sense of the world around us. They coordinate our body, create emotions and sensations and ultimately determine our behaviour. Our research-led Neuroscience BSc (Placement Year) will give you the biological and psychological grounding to explore the brain, nervous system and how the body works. You will explore how this insight, and recent scientific advances in these areas, provide a gateway to life-changing treatments and interventions for common conditions such as schizophrenia, autism, mood disorders and dementia. Together with a year in industry, your degree in neuroscience will be an ideal basis for a host of exciting careers across the academic, pharmaceutical, health and biotechnology sectors, offering you the scientific knowledge, practical lab skills and career-ready mindset to succeed. During your placement year, you will also pay just 20% of the standard tuition fees. And, because you will build your skills and competence in experimental design, data recording, analysis and presentation, effec