<p>as a freshman I decided Id be a neuroscience major -- i soon realized that over 90% kids in my major were aspiring to be veterinarians or going into medicine or pharm schools -- i switched out into chemistry because i loved chemistry -- unfortunately with hardcore chemistry there are few places which are also involved with neuroscience neuroscience is under biology's jurisdiction -- chemistry is much more fundamental in its essence (small molecules, catalysts, physical phenomena) -- while neuroscience has much more to do with biology (large molecular aggregates, enzymes, cells, tissue culture)</p>
<p>so in summary there is not a lot of neurochemistry out there</p>
<p>what I would suggest is that he picks a place where there is a prof or two doing research in neuroscience area and which has strong biology and chemistry departments this way he can major under chemistry or biology departments, take regular courses in all sorts of subjects, take may be a few neurosciences courses (schools dont usually offer very many of these), but also have a hands-on experience working on some project that related to neuroscience neuroscience sounds very alluring, but in reality you either make molecules or run gels, so he has to pick whether hed want to sacrifice being a hardcore chemist to get deeper into neuroscience field or if he really doesnt want to be a biologist (I would suggest being a chemist, because chemistry is like the foundation for biology and a few times I met biologists who had no idea about any chemistry, because they only took bio classes and hated o-chem, and then they engage in bs science like try to couple something to a cell using some very weird and impractical reagents while it is easier to catch up with biology being a chemist) </p>
<p>afterwards if your kid wants to do research, he needs to get a PhD -- he'll have to choose to apply to either chemistry or biology programs it is one or the other -- and unfortunately there are not a lot of places that combine studying brain and using chemistry most biological chemistry focuses on enzymes, proteins, human diseases like Alzheimers, NMR to study macromolecules, etc -- while there are more schools that combine biology and neuroscience I know of just one school, Caltech, where there are two hardcore chemistry professors that also do neuroscience but Im sure there might be a few others</p>
<p>another option is pharmacy school</p>