Biopsych

[TangoDown]

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Any of you guys Biopsych majors? What about neuroscience majors?

I'm a Cali CC student, and UCLA/UCSB both have Biopsych majors. I find psychology and the biological-behavior connection fascinating, so I think this would provide me with the best of both worlds. Plus, besides a research methods class, the prerequisites for upper division Bio and Biopsych are exactly the same.

How does it compare to a neuroscience major? I know they're all different depending on the institution, but any insight would be wonderful.

 

[Sophocles]

Any of you guys Biopsych majors? What about neuroscience majors?

I'm a Cali CC student, and UCLA/UCSB both have Biopsych majors. I find psychology and the biological-behavior connection fascinating, so I think this would provide me with the best of both worlds. Plus, besides a research methods class, the prerequisites for upper division Bio and Biopsych are exactly the same.

How does it compare to a neuroscience major? I know they're all different depending on the institution, but any insight would be wonderful.

At my institution we have neuroscience majors-all that means is that half of our concentration is bio/neuro and the other half is psych courses. I had a friend from UCLA who told me this is pretty much how they were set up.

 

[Ismet]

You're going to find a lot of variety here...

I was a neuroscience major in undergrad, and it wasn't tied to bio or psych, it's a stand-alone major, and actually one of the largest majors at Pitt.

We had 5 required courses: Intro to Neuro, Neuroanatomy, Synaptic Transmission, Neurophysiology, and either a neuro writing practicum or writing a research thesis

Plus 2 electives from a variety of choices (my favorite was Psychiatric Disorders)

Plus a capstone, fulfilled by research/writing a thesis or taking a seminar

Neuro majors here also automatically get a chem minor because of all the pre-reqs + biochem

Neuro is fascinating, and I'm sure it's just as interesting if your school approaches it from a bio/psych standpoint, although that might not be as in-depth as a full-fledged neuro major.

 

[Meihua]

I'm majoring in biochem, psychology, and cognitive sciences with a focus in neuroscience...it's all interrelated stuff. Pretty sure I covered the equivalent of another school's biopsych or neuroscience major in there somewhere.

Nod to the interrelatedness of the subjects - last year a news article came out supposedly connecting Toxoplasma gondii (feline parasite) with schizophrenia, and professors mentioned it in my immunology, microbiology, abnormal behavior, and biopsychology classes.