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:
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• Intro Biology

February

• Animal Behavior
• Neurobiology of behavior
• Behavioral Neuroscience

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

• Cell and molecular neuroscience
• Molecular transport
• Systems Biology

June

• Neurobiology of learning and memory
• Learning and Development
• Hippocampus

July

• Circadian neurobiology
• Perception and decision

August

• Neuroeconomics
• Motor control

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

• Auditory system
• Drugs and the brain

April

• Biological bases of addiction
• Behavioral pharmacology
• Neuropharmacology 

May

• Brain injury and recovery
• Neurodegenerative disorders

June

• Neurobiology of neuropsychiatric disorders
• Genes, circuits, and behavior