Entrance Guide | Tohoku Neuroscience Global COE

As the 21st century is called the 'Brain Age', with the development in neuroscience ranging from the molecule/cell level to the system/individual level, it is becoming important to interpret mental functions by which human beings are characterized, as challenges for life sciences. For this reason, there are stronger connections with brain science in various fields covering medicine, welfare, education, industry, economics, and administration. In the Center for Global Brain Science (GBS), we seek people from a wide spectrum of fields aiming at returning brain science into society. Desirable candidates are people with the spirit to challenge transversal and synthesized approaches between various fields targeting at new research and applications for brain science. The Center provides such people with a place to study and research to develop new brain science with a viewpoint of life science. It also has an interface with society, and produces next-generation brain science researchers or people who can apply brain science to various fields.

At this Center, the following three new brain sciences are proposed to our candidates: (1) 'Genomic Behavioral Neuroscience', on the basis of molecular neuroscience that reads genetic information, elucidates behavior and mental functions that support its behavior, (2) 'Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience', on the basis of system brain science that understands cognitive functions from the aspect of the response of a neurocyte, or network formation, elucidates a diversity of mental functions which progresses by an interaction with the body and the environment, and (3) 'Interdisciplinary Brain Science', on the basis of such neuroscience and clinical brain science, searches the possibility of brain science from life science point of view in a social environment. Our first aim is to promote neuroscience research in a synthesized approach, and put our young researchers who can cultivate their own novel neuroscience field into academia inside and outside the country. Moreover, the latest results from neuroscience are needed in an extreme variety of domains, such as medicine, welfare, education, industry, economy, and administration. Therefore, our second aim is with outcome-oriented education, which is conscious of the career path and role our graduates play in society. We foster people who can harness the results of neuroscience in society. The graduate students can receive various educational support. Please refer to 'Human Resource Development'. For example, it is possible to study abroad in the short-term during enrollment in school.　For international educational research support, the Center has its own HASEKURA Fellowship. We also encourage working people, and have a tuition exemption system for them.

For candidates entering this Center, choose an approach nearest to your hope (or interest) in graduate school. Feel free to ask the Group Leader in each field. (Please refer to the following for the make-up, contact, and graduate school entrance examination information for each field.) Since the three groups work in cooperation, we can respond your demand in a very flexible manner.

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