<p>So, first off my major is in neuroscience & behavioral biology, and I'm mostly interested in the behavioral aspects of neuroscience. After looking at a bunch of programs I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably better suited for a psychology program with an emphasis on biopsychology rather than a pure neuroscience program since I'm a lot more interested in the behavioral side of things than I am in the biological aspects. That said I've still been looking at both types of programs just to see what my options are.</p>
<p>Something that I've noticed is that the neuroscience programs tend to have heavy biology and chemistry undergrad course requirements for applicants whereas the psychology/b. neuroscience programs don't (or at least they don't state so explicitly). For example, of the neuroscience programs I've looked at which listed the courses they recommended applicants have, I've seen a lot "chemistry up through biochemistry" (which I take to mean gen chem, orgo, and bio chem), sometimes inorganic chemistry, often math up through calculus 2, and upper level biology classes like cell & molecular biology, physiology, and genetics.</p>
<p>Like I said though, I'm mainly interested in just doing a neuroscience concentration of a psychology program. However, I haven't found any course recommendations for those programs yet. I was wondering if anyone knew how similar these programs usually are to each other, specifically in the course requirements?</p>
<p>My issue is that I was a psychology major up until I transferred schools and switched to neuroscience. While I have completed gen chem, and orgo I haven't touched any upper level bio courses aside from evolutionary biology, and I wasn't planning on taking biochem for another year (long story, has to do entirely with scheduling issues), and the idea of taking inorganic chem never even occurred to me. I've mostly just been focused on psych and neuro courses (drugs and behavior, physiological psych, foundations of behavior, abnormal psych, research methods, statistics, plus neurobiology which I'll be taking come fall 2009). Are my chances for getting into any type of brain science program screwed without taking a lot more upper level chem and bio classes, or am I fine as far as psychology programs with an emphasis on behavioral neuroscience go?</p>