Neuroscience at university

I assume that you mean Neuroscience as a Biology degree and that on its own does not lead anywhere.

Hi everyone, does anyone have any advice on what studying neuroscience at university is like and where it may lead to?

Hey I also plan on doing a neuroscience degree and had the same worries so maybe I can help you out.

Your job prospects definitely will not be limited by doing a neuroscience degree. I would argue that modules within neuroscience are actually broader than in general biology. But, it does depend on the exact course at the specific university. The only thing is compared to a bio degree you wouldn't learn stuff like ecology. In neuroscience, you study quite wide range of modules from general human biology modules to a bit of chemistry and physics, to more psychology and brain related modules. As you go through the degree you have more choice over the module content you select, and you can specialise in wide range of areas, such as genetics, more psychology-related neuroscience, or biochemistry-related content. I would say because of how new and broad neuroscience is, there is no limitation in terms of jobs because a neuroscientist has the opportunity to go into a biological route, a psychological route or a strictly neuro route. You could go into research, regulatory affairs, marketing (check out neuro-marketing), business, computer science (artificial intelligence). pharmaceuticals and I could go on. It's more the skills you learn from the degree than the name of it

Some people do further study and do PGCE to become a teacher, postgraduate medicine or denistry, NHS scientist training programme or NHS management scheme. Also, don't forget many employers accept any degrees like Civil service so don't stop your options there.

Here's some links:
https://www.bna.org.uk/careers/
https://work.chron.com/list-careers-neuroscience-11583.html

I would recommend speaking to some students on UCAS unibuddy to ask them questions about the course
https://ucas.unibuddy.co/buddies?subject=5c796ed9abfaaa00101934ed&subjectName=Subjects+Allied+to+Medicine&subCategory=5c796edbabfaaa0010193548
Just go onto the subject column and then subjects allied to medicine and then other subjects allied to medicine and you'll see several neuroscientists

You've just copy pasted lot of nonsense, how exactly you get into AI? Artificial intelligence is all about statistics, nothing to do with biology at all. There are few fringe domains like the HTM/Numenta or Human Brain Projects you are expected to have Ph.D with considerable quantitative skills.
Same with Computer Science, like what can you do? Send emails? You will not learn anything about business and marketing. To get into NHS STP is insanely difficult. You will be competing with people with multiple degrees and 5-10 or relevant experience for 3 to 5 places scattered all around the whole of the UK. You are more likely to make it into grad medicine at Imperial or Oxford. These are ridiculously unlikely scenarios that should not be a reason for considering Neuroscience.

Doing Neuro from the Psychology side is even worse. You won't learn anything from biology and you wont have a real Psychology degree either.

I am huge AI/Neuro nerd. I spent about 12 years by reading everything available. I did considered degree in Neuro, but it is so useless.

Hey I also plan on doing a neuroscience degree and had the same worries so maybe I can help you out.

Your job prospects definitely will not be limited by doing a neuroscience degree. I would argue that modules within neuroscience are actually broader than in general biology. But, it does depend on the exact course at the specific university. The only thing is compared to a bio degree you wouldn't learn stuff like ecology. In neuroscience, you study quite wide range of modules from general human biology modules to a bit of chemistry and physics, to more psychology and brain related modules. As you go through the degree you have more choice over the module content you select, and you can specialise in wide range of areas, such as genetics, more psychology-related neuroscience, or biochemistry-related content. I would say because of how new and broad neuroscience is, there is no limitation in terms of jobs because a neuroscientist has the opportunity to go into a biological route, a psychological route or a strictly neuro route. You could go into research, regulatory affairs, marketing (check out neuro-marketing), business, computer science (artificial intelligence). pharmaceuticals and I could go on. It's more the skills you learn from the degree than the name of it

Some people do further study and do PGCE to become a teacher, postgraduate medicine or denistry, NHS scientist training programme or NHS management scheme. Also, don't forget many employers accept any degrees like Civil service so don't stop your options there.

Here's some links:
https://www.bna.org.uk/careers/
https://work.chron.com/list-careers-neuroscience-11583.html

I would recommend speaking to some students on UCAS unibuddy to ask them questions about the course
https://ucas.unibuddy.co/buddies?subject=5c796ed9abfaaa00101934ed&subjectName=Subjects+Allied+to+Medicine&subCategory=5c796edbabfaaa0010193548
Just go onto the subject column and then subjects allied to medicine and then other subjects allied to medicine and you'll see several neuroscientists

You've just copy pasted lot of nonsense, how exactly you get into AI? Artificial intelligence is all about statistics, nothing to do with biology at all. There are few fringe domains like the HTM/Numenta or Human Brain Projects you are expected to have Ph.D with considerable quantitative skills.
Same with Computer Science, like what can you do? Send emails? You will not learn anything about business and marketing. To get into NHS STP is insanely difficult. You will be competing with people with multiple degrees and 5-10 or relevant experience for 3 to 5 places scattered all around the whole of the UK. You are more likely to make it into grad medicine at Imperial or Oxford. These are ridiculously unlikely scenarios that should not be a reason for considering Neuroscience.

Doing Neuro from the Psychology side is even worse. You won't learn anything from biology and you wont have a real Psychology degree either.

I am huge AI/Neuro nerd. I spent about 12 years by reading everything available. I did considered degree in Neuro, but it is so useless.

Neural artificial intelligence is now a thing which I have been told by several uni lecturers, neuroscientists and current neuroscience students. There are literally artificial intellegence modules on neuroscience courses. There's a demand for neuroscientists to apply information we know about the brain to technology. If you're such an AI and neuroscience nerd surely you would know that instead of being so rude to my response to someone saying I copied and pasted nonsense. Neuroscience is a constantly growing field which is changing so the fact you say it's useless makes no sense...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/artificial-neural-networks-ann.asp

AI is very different discipline ANN has nothing to with biology, zero, it's a postgrad applied mathematics. I am sorry but 3 weeks long intro to statistics mid biology degree wont make the cut.
This is a very simple forward pass, no LSTM, transformers or back prop, nothing HTM like.
Simple 101 intro to a basic Neural Networks design. Nothing like ANN or GAN


It's not biology, is it?

AI is very different discipline ANN has nothing to with biology, zero, it's a postgrad applied mathematics. I am sorry but 3 weeks long intro to statistics mid biology degree wont make the cut.
This is a very simple forward pass, no LSTM, transformers or back prop, nothing HTM like.
Simple 101 intro to a basic Neural Networks design. Nothing like ANN or GAN


It's not biology, is it?

Also OP I forgot to add this thread of a question I asked very similar to yours and a bsc neuroscience graduate when I was questioning my degree https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?p=88887642&highlight=

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-fascinating-relationship-between-ai-and-neuroscience-89189218bb05
https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/oxford-centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience-and-artificial-intelligence
I don't know where you're getting your information from but there are strong links between artificial intelligence and neuroscience so I don't get how you have said you're such a nerd to it and spoke in an unkind manner to Dechante. There's numerous links which show how neuroscience is evolving and the applications of neuroscience to AI.

Hi everyone, does anyone have any advice on what studying neuroscience at university is like and where it may lead to?

Not sure how helpful all the stuff below has been (especially given theres been no neuroscientists replying above as far as I can tell?). As someone who did a Medical Sciences degree (specialising in neuroscience), an MRes in Biosciences (specialising in neuroscience) and now on a PhD in Neuroscience, here's my take.

Not sure how helpful all the stuff below has been (especially given theres been no neuroscientists replying above as far as I can tell?). As someone who did a Medical Sciences degree (specialising in neuroscience), an MRes in Biosciences (specialising in neuroscience) and now on a PhD in Neuroscience, here's my take.

Really I'd counter your question with another one-do you have any idea what you would like to do in the future?

A neuroscience degree usually covers a lot of molecular stuff, as I understand it, so I'd say if you would really like to go into research in some way (e.g. drug research or understanding mechanisms of neurological disease), it may be worth looking into. Personally I wanted to do a Neuroscience degree, ended up doing a more general medical sciences degree and tailored my optional modules/research projects to neuroscience. This gave me a wide understanding of a range of biological topics-something you may get in most neuroscience degrees anyway. I've gone down the research route, currently studying mechanisms of disease associated with ALS, but honestly your degree title isn't too relevant there, its more the experience you bring when you apply for something like a PhD.

Although psychology will be linked, most neuroscience courses don't focus enough on psychology. If you are interested in that, do a psychology degree, it will be far more useful. As for all the AI stuff mentioned above...that feels more relevant to computer science related degrees, where I would be far less help advising you.

Obviously as with all biology degrees, you may choose not to go into research afterwards. You'd still be an appealing candidate for other jobs (e.g. for finance, teaching). Honestly if your goal is one of those jobs, it may be more worthwhile doing a different degree. Maybe that's related to my personal beliefs (I'm not a fan of people doing degrees purely out of personal interest, instead of for advancing their career, but that's a choice for you not me)

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-fascinating-relationship-between-ai-and-neuroscience-89189218bb05
https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/oxford-centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience-and-artificial-intelligence
I don't know where you're getting your information from but there are strong links between artificial intelligence and neuroscience so I don't get how you have said you're such a nerd to it and spoke in an unkind manner to Dechante. There's numerous links which show how neuroscience is evolving and the applications of neuroscience to AI.

Not sure how helpful all the stuff below has been (especially given theres been no neuroscientists replying above as far as I can tell?). As someone who did a Medical Sciences degree (specialising in neuroscience), an MRes in Biosciences (specialising in neuroscience) and now on a PhD in Neuroscience, here's my take.

Really I'd counter your question with another one-do you have any idea what you would like to do in the future?

A neuroscience degree usually covers a lot of molecular stuff, as I understand it, so I'd say if you would really like to go into research in some way (e.g. drug research or understanding mechanisms of neurological disease), it may be worth looking into. Personally I wanted to do a Neuroscience degree, ended up doing a more general medical sciences degree and tailored my optional modules/research projects to neuroscience. This gave me a wide understanding of a range of biological topics-something you may get in most neuroscience degrees anyway. I've gone down the research route, currently studying mechanisms of disease associated with ALS, but honestly your degree title isn't too relevant there, its more the experience you bring when you apply for something like a PhD.

Although psychology will be linked, most neuroscience courses don't focus enough on psychology. If you are interested in that, do a psychology degree, it will be far more useful. As for all the AI stuff mentioned above...that feels more relevant to computer science related degrees, where I would be far less help advising you.

Obviously as with all biology degrees, you may choose not to go into research afterwards. You'd still be an appealing candidate for other jobs (e.g. for finance, teaching). Honestly if your goal is one of those jobs, it may be more worthwhile doing a different degree. Maybe that's related to my personal beliefs (I'm not a fan of people doing degrees purely out of personal interest, instead of for advancing their career, but that's a choice for you not me)

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-fascinating-relationship-between-ai-and-neuroscience-89189218bb05
https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/oxford-centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience-and-artificial-intelligence
I don't know where you're getting your information from but there are strong links between artificial intelligence and neuroscience so I don't get how you have said you're such a nerd to it and spoke in an unkind manner to Dechante. There's numerous links which show how neuroscience is evolving and the applications of neuroscience to AI.