What is a Neuroscientist?

According to the Medical News Today website neuroscientists focus on the brain and its impact on behaviour and cognitive functions, or how people think.  Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary science that works closely with other disciplines, such as mathematics, linguistics, engineering, computer science, chemistry, philosophy, psychology, and medicine.  Neuroscientists carry out tests, using various types of technology to help them to diagnose conditions, and they usually specialise in specific areas.  These include study of the way the nervous system grows and develops; the way the brain deals with thought, language, memory, and its ability to solve problems; or molecules that help with the way the nervous systems work.   

To become a neuroscientist, students generally have to complete a science degree - such as a Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Biomedicine with a Major in Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne for example. 

Completion of a postgraduate qualification is regarded as of great value - such as Graduate Diploma in Clinical Neuropsychology, Master of Science in Medicine (Clinical Neurophysiology) and Master of Neuroscience.  The following link is very useful to browse - 

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