What's the major difference between Psychology and Neuroscience?
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What's the major difference between Psychology and Neuroscience?What's the difference between Psychology and Neuroscience? Also, if you study Neuroscience, how much do you enjoy your degree? Is it enjoyable and lives up to what you expected it to be like?
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Re: What's the major difference between Psychology and Neuroscience?http://www.hecsu.ac.uk/assets/assets...D_Nov_2011.pdf with an unemployment rate of 7.9% and the national average of 8.5% psychology is hardly the worse degree for employment. Only 18.5% of psychology students in employment work in retail, catering,waiting or bar staff, meaning 81% in work in the UK don't. 19.5% of biology students in employment work in retail, catering or bar staff and less of them were in employment.(Original post by ChemGraduate)
Neuroscience will get you a job.
Don't join the thousands of useless psychology graduates who graduate every year and work in argos or Matalan!!
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(this is 6 months after graduation so will change over students life times.)
As for the OP. Neuroscience only looks into the biological functions of the brain and nervous system, psychology looks into a wider range of things. I would suggest you look them both up more before deciding
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Re: What's the major difference between Psychology and Neuroscience?Neuroscience studies and structural and functional aspects of the nervous system, from the cellular level up to the whole-brain and it's integration with the rest of the body.
Psychology is kind of overlapping but with higher levels of organisation so where in psych you would learn about brain regions, theirs connections and their functions, you would do little in terms of cellular neurobiology. Psychology also deals a lot more with the larger scale phenomenon such as cognition, integrated learning and memory, consciousness and intelligence.
The fields overlap greatly and often you will have team involving specialists of both working on a problem in the science of behaviour.
