Neuroscience (Study Abroad)

About this programme

Learn from experts in two highly-respected Lancaster University departments – Psychology, and Biomedical and Life Sciences Our Psychology Employability Programme (PEP) works with organisations to provide voluntary work experience, enhancing your skills 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 how we behave. Our research-led Neuroscience BSc (Study Abroad) 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 your year abroad, your degree is 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. By spending your third year abroad, you will have an opportunity to explore new and different perspectives on your course, while gaining experience of what it is like to live and study in a different country. During your year abroad you are only required to pay 15% of the st