DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences
Course Code | 001835
MSc by Research in Clinical Neurosciences
Course Code | 001845
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:
- Stroke
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Chronic Pain Syndrome
- Autoimmune and genetic disorders of ion channels and synaptic transmission
- Neuroimaging methodology and application
- Neural control of eye movements in health and disease
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 deadlines for the DPhil and
MSc (R) courses are 16 November 2012, 4 January 2013 and 8
March 2013. 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. |
