Neurosciences
Coordinator : Mariano CASADO
Our M2 track in « Neurosciences » is well established since the foundation of the PSL Master in Life Sciences in 2017. It regularly evolves to keep updated with the latest advances in the field.
This track is aimed at students with a solid background in Neuroscience, typically having followed a full year of studies in the matter and having performed at least one long internship in the field. The course offer aims to endow students with the advanced training necessary to undertake contemporary research in Neuroscience.
The track tackles the study of the structure and function of the nervous system at different levels and with different approaches, from Molecular and Cellular to Integrative Neuroscience, from Pathology and Pharmacology to Computational Neurophysiology.
Our offer is large enough to allow selection of courses according to the student’s plans of specialization. Furthermore, the offer of the Neuroscience track is enriched by the possibility of following transversal teaching modules proposed by our Master (i.e., Advanced Data Analysis), specific courses in other tracks of the IMaLiS Master (mostly from the Fundamental Biology for Health and the Quantitative Biology tracks) but also by following some complementary teaching in partner institutions, in particular the Neuroscience track of the BIP Master at Sorbonne University.
Provisional planning 2025-2026
At least 18 ECTS have to be taken from your selected track.
First semester : 30 ECTS
- Neurophysiology (4 weeks), ENS - 12 ECTS - UNBIO1-072
- Interdisciplinary tutorials in neurosciences, ENS - 9 ECTS - UNBIO1-074
- Pasteur - Development and plasticity of the Nervous System - 12 ECTS
- Gender brain across species, ENS - 3 ECTS - UNBIO1-086
- Cells of the brain, ENS - 3 ECTS - UNBIO1-079
- Neuropathology, ENS - 3 ECTS - UNBIO1-081
- Optical Microscopy : principles and applications, ENS - 6 ECTS - UNBIO1-069 (or 3 ECTS for the theoretical part only - UNBIO1-068)
- Neuroethology, ENS - 3 ECTS - UNBIO1-080
- Neuropharmacology, ENS - 3 ECTS - UNBIO1-082
- Advanced Data Analysis, ENS - 6 ECTS (+3 ECTS for the project) - UNBIO1-090
Other courses you can apply to from partner institutions
To be discussed with the teaching team —exact dates to be verified—
Sorbonne Université, BIP, Neurosciences track
- Vision from retina to primary visual cortex, MU5BINV1 - 6 ECTS
- Cerveau social et émotion, MU5BIN11 - 6 ECTS
- Physiologie et physiopathologie sensorielle et motrice, MU5BIN05 - 6 ECTS
- Neurophysiology of perception, MU5BIN20 - 6 ECTS
- Neurobiologie des troubles psychiatriques, MU5BIN13 - 6 ECTS
- Glial pathologies & neurodegenerative diseases, MU5BIN07 - 6 ECTS
- Neuronal networks, MU5BIN04 - 6 ECTS
- Physiopathology of sensory diseases & translational research, MU5BIN21 - 6 ECTS
- Understanding psychiatric disorders : from signalling molecules to circuit & behaviour, MU5BIN25 - 6 ECTS
Cogmaster
- Theoretical Neurosciences, COGSCI 318 - 6 ECTS
Second semester : 30 ECTS
Long internship (5 months, 30 ECTS)