Translational Neuroscience pre-arrival information

Welcome Week events

Welcome Week runs from Monday 23 - Friday 27 September. During this week you'll get to meet your lecturers and fellow students and attend some introductory lectures relevant to your course and the Department of Neuroscience.

A full timetable for this week can be downloaded below.

Neuroscience Welcome Week 2024 Timetable

On Tuesday 24 September, there will be a welcome event for students across the School of Medicine and Population Health. Details of this session can be found below.

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School of Medicine and Population Health Welcome Event

Attendees: Students in the School of Medicine and Population Health
Time and Date: Tuesday 24 September 2024, 10am - 4pm
Location: Medical School - Room  MTL3

Time	Event	Session lead
10am - 10.05am	Welcome and schedule of the day	Claire Beecroft
10.05am - 10.30am	Welcome from the Director of Education	Michelle Marshall
10.30am - 10.45am	Icebreaker session	Claire Beecroft
10.45am - 11.15am	Student voice	Academic Reps Team
11.15am - 11.30am	PGR Society	Ben Raven and Miriam Arrulo
11.30am - 11.45am	BREAK
11.45am - 11.55am	Sustainable development goals	SJ Cooper Knock
11.55am - 12.05pm	SAM at school level - Digital I Tool and PATS	Liz Williams
12.05pm - 12.15pm	Unfair means at school level	Helen Marriott
12.15pm - 12.30pm	ELTC	TBC
12.30pm - 1.30pm	LUNCH	B Floor Concourse
1.30pm - 2pm	Wellbeing, DDSS, Report and Support	Dr Carolyn Staton
2pm - 2.15pm	Introduction to the Wellbeing Service	Carmen Karpenko
2.15pm - 2.30pm	BREAK
2.30pm - 2.45pm	Careers (including MySkills)	Karen Wood
2.45pm - 3pm	301 Academic Skills Centre	Oli Johnson
3pm - 3.15pm	Library Services	Ashley Crump
3.15pm - 3.30pm	Session Close	Claire Beecroft

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Course schedule

Module overview

Autumn term

• MED660 - Molecular Neuroscience (15 credits)
• MED661 - Neuroanatomy (15 credits) 
• MED663 - Pathology & Modelling Neurodegeneration (15 credits)  
• MED664 - Ethics in Neuroscience (15 credits)

A copy of your timetable for the first term can be downloaded below.

Translational Neuroscience Autumn Timetable 2024

Spring term

• MED664 - Nervous System Disease (15 credits)
• MED662 - Neuroimaging and Histopathology  (15 credits) 
• MED621 - Literature Review (30 credits)

Summer term

• MED625 - Research Project (75 credits)

Follow the link below to download a detailed overview of our course structure for the 2024/25 academic year. This calendar includes the teaching dates for all modules, including the winter break, and your research project.

Translational Neuroscience Course Overview 2024-2025

Please note: possible future changes may be necessary due to staff availability and room booking requirements beyond our control. Any changes will be shared with you.

If you have any questions contact Dr Julie Simpson (julie.simpson@sheffield.ac.uk).

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Recommended reading

We recommend you take a look at the following books to gain a good background knowledge of the material we'll be teaching before the start of the course.

Online resources

• Two-minute bitesize Neuroscience topics on YouTube
• "Know Your Brain" articles at Neuroscientifically challenged
• Professor Dame Pamela Shaw's appearance on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific

Introductory background reading

• Medical Genetics at a Glance, Pritchard & Korf, 3^rd Edition
• Crash Course Cell Biology & Genetics, Evans & Manson, 3^rd Edition

Recommended textbooks

• Human Molecular Genetics, Strachan & Read, 4th Edition
• Neuroscience, Purves, Augustine, Fitzpatrick et al, 4th Edition 
• Neuroanatomy An Illustrated Colour Text AR Crossman and D Neary, Churchill Livingstone [Copy with Course Administrator to Borrow]