DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences
Course Code | 001835
In November 2010 the University of Oxford created the new Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, based in the West Wing of the John Radcliffe Hospital.
The Department has brought together the Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics, the Department of Clinical Neurology, including the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain and the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology.
The Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences brings together world class teaching and research within the clinical neurosciences. There are wide-ranging opportunities for research interactions with the University of Oxford, which is consistently rated as one of the top five biomedical research centres in the world.
Major research areas include:
- FMRIB analysis group
- FMRIB physics group
- Basic and translational research
- Pain
- Cognitive affective neuroscience
- Epilepsy imaging
- FMRIB plasticity group
- Vision group
Major research areas include:
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Cognition
- Functional neurosurgery and experimental neurology
- Multiple Sclerosis and related diseases
- Neural repair
- Neurodegeneration
- Neurogenetics
- Neuroimmunology
- Neuropathology
Major research areas include:
- Neuroimaging
- Pain
- Respiratory physiology
- Intensive care medicine
Major research areas include:
- Artificial vision
- Photoreceptors
- Clinical trials
- Gene therapy
- Genetics
- Ocular biology
- Body clocks
- Sleep
- Vision and disease
How to ApplyThe deadline for the DPhil and
MSc (R) courses is 10 January 2014. The
standard set of materials you should send
with any application to a research course comprises: The research proposal for applicants to the DPhil or
MSc (R) in Clinical Neurosciences should
normally be two pages in length, covering areas such as
the background to the
research, methodology, expected results and the contribution to the
field of learning. |
