<p>It appears that most of the MD/PhD programs tend towards clinical bench science, yes? </p>
<p>Anyone know combined programs that are on the softer side of Neuro, i.e., learning/cognitive/morality/emotion?</p>
<p>Rochester. Duke. Yale. UNM. Maybe Emory. JHU? Minnesota?</p>
<p>D2’s undergrad research neuro lab at UR currently has 3 or 4 students that are either MD/PhD or MD post grad fellows working in cognition. Her lab frequently cross-pollinates (sends/receives grad students/fellows/post-docs) with labs at Yale and Duke. </p>
<p>UNM’s MD/PhD isn’t a MSTP, but it’s a fully funded (full tuition + stipend) program. UNM often works in conjunction with the Mind Research Network. (Full disclosure: the company I work for owns MRN.) Social cognition, morality & decision-making.</p>
<p>Emory has big program in autism that does work in some pretty soft areas, mostly in behavioral neuro.</p>
<p>It’s more about the department than the md/phd program as to whether it’s more cognitive based or not.</p>
<p>Is neurology closely related to neuroscience?</p>
<p>I heard several of DS’s classmates may be interested in getting into the neurology specialty. I heard it could have something to do with the diseases like stroke, dementia for older patients. Other than that, I do not know the relationship between the neurology (as a specialty) and the neuroscience (as a medical science subject.)</p>
<p>I heard the life style for a physician in the neurology specialty is likely not bad. (Maybe even better than the emergency medicine.) But I am not sure whether it is a competitive specialty (like another life-style specialty, pathology?) to get in. </p>
<p>To get into a top academic medicine center in a “desirable” area (read: in a large city, especially the one close to the coastal area), my guess is that it is competitive like most other specialties.</p>
<p>Neuroscience is a basic science discipline dealing with the brain. Neurology and neurosurgery are clinical disciplines (one is medical, the other surgical) for diagnosing and dealing with diseases of the brain. There would be plenty of overlap between neuroscience and neurology or neurosurgery, but of course this is not the only overlap. Neuroscience overlaps with psychiatry, cancer and genetics overlap with neurosurgery (tumors), pharmacology and addiction and so on.</p>