I’m all for self-studying, including going through an entire college curriculum on your own, in less time than a traditional four-year program.
Based on several schools (Yale, Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford University) I have created a 1.5-year study curriculum in neuroscience, using open-courseware.
A great online neuroscience teaser can be found here.A wonderful, complete online neuroscience textbook can be found here.
Year 1:
January
- Principles of Neuroscience:
- Intro Biology
February
March
- Structure and functional organization of the human nervous system
- Intro to neuroanatomy
- Brain development and plasticity
April
- Bioethics in neuroscience
- Experimental methods in neuroscience
- Research stats
May
June
July
- Circadian neurobiology
- Perception and decision
August
September
- Pain
- Autonomic physiology
October
- Biochemistry
- Molecular genetics
November
- Evolutionary neurobiology
- Systems neuroscience
December
- Intro to computing
- Fundamentals of computational neuroscience
- Computational Neuroscience
Year 2:
January
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Neurobiology of emotion
- Functional brain imaging
February
- Neuroscience of visual perception
- Smell and taste
March
April
- Biological bases of addiction
- Behavioral pharmacology
- Neuropharmacology
May
- Brain injury and recovery
- Neurodegenerative disorders
June
- Neurobiology of neuropsychiatric disorders
- Genes, circuits, and behavior
