Graduate Course List
Core Courses
| CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY I | Fall Term | 4 cr, Lagenaur |
| CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY II | Fall Term | 4 cr, Lagenaur |
| SYSTEMS NEUROBIOLOGY | Spring Term | 6 cr, Simons |
Required Courses
| SCIENTIFIC ETHICS | Summer Term | 1 cr, Hastings |
| STATISTICS | Spring Term | 3 cr, Kass |
| PROSEMINAR | Fall /Spring Term | 1 cr |
| JOURNAL CLUB | Fall/Spring Term | 1 cr |
| SEMINAR SERIES | Fall/Spring Term | 1 cr |
| DIRECTED STUDY/INDEPENDENT STUDY | Fall/Spring/ Summer Term |
Electives
Cell and Molecular Neurobiology
| ADVANCED DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY | Fall Term | 2 cr, Lance-Jones |
| BIOCHEMISTRY OF MACROMOLECULES | Spring Term | 2 cr, Cascio |
| CELL AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY | Spring Term | 2 cr, Frizzell |
| BIOLOGY OF SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION | Spring Term | 3 cr, Romero/Rajasekaran |
| PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACOLOGY | Spring Term | 2 cr, Friedman |
| MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY | Fall Term | 3 cr, Altschuler |
| BIOLOGICAL IMAGING AND FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY | 3 cr, Lanni | |
| STEM CELLS | Fall Term | 3 cr, Monga |
Clinical
| BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS | Spring Term | 3cr, Hastings |
| MOLECULAR PATHOBIOLOGY | Spring Term | 3 cr, Achim/Oury |
Cognitive
| COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY | Spring Term | 3 cr, Behrmann |
| COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE | Fall Term | 3 cr, McClelland/Olson |
| PERCEPTION | 3 cr, Klatzky |
Computational
| ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS | Spring Term | 4 cr, Touretzky |
| INTRO TO PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING | Spring Term | 3 cr, Plaut |
| COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE METHODS | 3 cr, Ermentrout | |
| COMPUTATIONAL PERCEPTION AND SCENE ANALYSIS | Spring Term | 4 cr, Lewicki |
| COMPUTER VISION | Spring Term | 3 cr, Lee |
Systems Neuroscience
| FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY | Fall Term | 4 cr, Sesack |
| HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY | Fall Term | 4 cr, Yates |
| NEURAL PLASTICITY IN SENSORY AND MOTOR SYSTEMS | 3 cr, Barth, Urban, Crowley |
General
| HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES IN NEUROSCIENCE | Summer Term | 2 cr, Balaban |
The University offers many courses in addition to those listed above that, subject to approval by the program co-directors, may be taken for elective credit to satisfy the educational goals of individual students. Information on all graduate courses offered at the University of Pittsburgh is available at http://www.pitt.edu/~registrar/crinPgCrsInfo.htm.
