Collaborative Programs
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Neuroscience
Lead Faculty
Contact and Address
Medicine
Web: www.neuroscience.utoronto.ca
Email: p.neuroscience@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-8637
Collaborative Program in Neuroscience
University of Toronto
Medical Sciences Building
Room 3306, 1 King's College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 1A8
Canada
Participating Degree Programs
Biochemistry—MSc, PhD
Biomedical Engineering—MASc, MSc, PhD
Cell and Systems Biology—MSc, PhD
Computer Science—MSc, PhD
Dentistry—MSc, PhD
Developmental Psychology and Education—MA, PhD
Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology—MSc, PhD
Medical Biophysics—MSc, PhD
Medical Science—MSc, PhD
Music—MA, PhD
Pharmaceutical Sciences—MSc, PhD
Pharmacology—MSc, PhD
Physiology—MSc, PhD
Psychology—MA, PhD
Rehabilitation Science—MSc, PhD
Overview
The graduate programs listed above participate in the
Collaborative Program in Neuroscience (CPIN).
Participating graduate units contribute courses and
provide facilities and supervision for graduate research.
Students must follow a program of studies acceptable to
both the participating unit and the Neuroscience program.
Upon successful completion of the degree requirements of
the participating home department and the collaborative
program, students receive the notation “Completed
Collaborative Program in Neuroscience” on their transcript
and parchment.
Students interested in joining the program should go to the
Neuroscience website and complete the application form.
Students should register within one month of initial
registration in their participating degree unit. The
Neuroscience website provides areas of research for all
faculty in the collaborative program, their graduate unit
affiliations and contact information, as well as additional
information on neuroscience courses.
Students in the program receive the Collaborative
Program in Neuroscience newsletter and a monthly
calendar listing neuroscience lectures held on campus.
The program runs a Distinguished Lectureship Series of
talks by eminent neuroscientists and an annual research
day; students are required to attend and present at this
event.
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Programs
Master's Level
Admission Requirements
 Applicants who wish to enrol in the collaborative
program must apply to and be admitted to both the
collaborative program and a graduate degree program in
one of the collaborating units.
Program Requirements
 The thesis topic must be in the neuroscience area.
 The student's supervisor must be a core faculty member
of the Collaborative Program in Neuroscience (CPIN).
 All master's-level students must complete at least 0.5
full-course equivalents (FCEs) chosen from the list of
courses approved by the Collaborative Program in
Neuroscience, as listed below.
 The student must attend the Annual CPIN Research Day
at least once.
 The student must complete NEU 1000H Neuroscience
Distinguished Lecture Series (Master's) by attending at
least 70% (or a minimum of seven) of the lectures in the
CPIN Distinguished Lectureship Series, including the
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Visiting
Neuroscientist Lecture, for a minimum of one year during
his/her studies. As part of the seminar series, the
student must present his/her work at least once.
Doctoral Level
Admission Requirements
 Applicants who wish to enrol in the collaborative
program must apply to and be admitted to both the
collaborative program and a graduate degree program in
one of the collaborating units.
Program Requirements
 The thesis topic must be in the neuroscience area.
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 The student's supervisor must be a core faculty member
of the Collaborative Program in Neuroscience (CPIN).
 All PhD students must complete at least 1.0 full-course
equivalent (FCE) course, such as JNR 1444Y
Fundamentals of Neuroscience: Cellular and Molecular,
or JNS 1000Y Fundamentals of Neuroscience: Systems
and Behaviour, or one of several additional courses in
cognitive psychology or imaging, or neurosciencerelated course to be determined by the CPIN Program
Committee and posted on the CPIN website in July of
each year.
 The student must attend the Annual CPIN Research Day
at least twice.
 The student must complete NEU 2000H Neuroscience
Distinguished Lecture Series (Doctoral) by attending at
least 70% (or a minimum of seven) of the lectures in the
CPIN Distinguished Lectureship Series, including the
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Visiting
Neuroscientist Lecture, per year for a minimum of three
years during his/her studies. As part of the seminar
series, the student must present his/her work at least
twice.
 MSc or MA students who have completed the CPIN and
who wish to continue on to complete at the doctoral level
must register again and fulfil all the program
requirements (e.g., students must again present posters
in the doctoral program).
Course List
Neuroscience courses offered by the participating units
are listed below. Not all courses are offered each year.
JYG 1555H
Topics in Cellular and Molecular
Neurobiology
MSC 1006H
Advanced Neuroanatomy
MSC 1081H
Studies in Schizophrenia
MSC 1085H
Molecular Approaches to Mental Health
and Addictions
MSC 1086H
Integrative Perspectives in
Consciousness and Self-Awareness
MSC 1087H
Neuroimaging Methods Using Magnetic
Resonance Imaging
MSC 1088H
Brain Positron Emission Tomography
MSC 6000H
Special Topics in Anatomy (requires prior
permission of the Neuroscience Program
Director)
NEU 1000H0 Neuroscience Distinguished Lecture
Series (Master's) (Credit/No Credit)
NEU 2000H0 Neuroscience Distinguished Lecture
Series (Doctoral) (Credit/No Credit)
PCL 1012H
Cognitive Neuropharmacology
PSL 1024H
Advanced Topics: Endocrinology and
Neuroendocrinology
PSL 1026H
Advanced Topics: Experimental Cell
Physiology
DEN 1060H
Oral Physiology: Sensory and
Neuromuscular Function
PSL 1047H
Advanced Topics: Somatosensory and
Pain Neuroscience
HDP 1238H
Special Topics in Human Development
and Applied Psychology
PSL 1050H
Advanced Topics: The Hippocampus
from Cell to Behaviour
HDP 3286H
Developmental Neurobiology
PSL 1053H
Advanced Topics: Critical Assessment of
Ion Channel Function
JEB 1444H
Neural Engineering
PSL 1068H
JEB 1451H
Neural Bioelectricity
Advanced Topics: Molecular Basis of
Behaviour
JNR 1444Y
Fundamentals of Neuroscience: Cellular
and Molecular
PSL 1071H
Advanced Topics: Computational
Neuroscience
JNS 1000Y
Fundamentals of Neuroscience: Systems
and Behaviour
PSL 1075H
Biology In Time
PSL 1441H
Systems Level Neuroplasticity
JPM 1005Y
Behavioural Pharmacology
PSL 1445H
JPY 1007Y
Neuropharmacology of Neurotransmitter
Receptors
Mechanistic Molecular and Cellular
Neuroscience
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PSL 1446H
Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Neural
Disorders
PSY 5311H
Advanced Topics in Developmental
Neuroscience II
PSL 1452H
Fundamentals of Ion Channel Function
REH 1510H
Disordered Restorative Motor Control
PSY 4706H
Human Brain Neuroanatomy
REH 5100H
PSY 5101H
Mechanisms of Behaviour
Introduction to Cognitive Rehabilitation
Neuroscience I: Basic Science to Clinical
Applications
PSY 5103H
Learning and Plasticity
REH 5102H
Cognitive Rehabilitation Neuroscience II
PSY 5104H
Neuropsychology
Course that may continue over a program. The course is
graded when completed.
PSY 5110H
Advanced Topics in Behavioural
Neuroscience I
Other Courses
PSY 5111H
Advanced Topics in Behavioural
Neuroscience II
Courses not specifically in neuroscience which do not fulfil
the program requirements as neuroscience courses but
might be useful for neuroscience students.
PSY 5112H
Advanced Topics in Behavioural
Neuroscience III
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JBL 1507H
Biochemistry of Inherited Disease
JDB 1025Y
Developmental Biology
PSY 5120H
Advanced Topics in Animal Behaviour
and Motivation I
JNP 1017H+
The Molecular and Biochemical Basis of
Toxicology
PSY 5121H
Advanced Topics in Animal Behaviour
and Motivation II
JNP 1018H+
Current Topics in Molecular and
Biochemical Toxicology
PSY 5130H
Advanced Topics in Neuropsychology I
PHM 1122H
Fundamentals of Drug Discovery
PSY 5131H
Advanced Topics in Neuropsychology II
PSY 5102H
Motivational Processes
PSY 5132H
Advanced Topics in Neuropsychology III
SLP 1522Y
Speech Physiology and Acoustics
PSY 5201H
Audition
SLP 1533Y
Aphasia
PSY 5202H
Vision
SLP 1534Y
Motor Speech Disorders
PSY 5203H
Higher Cognition
SLP 3001H
PSY 5204H
Attention
Theoretical Foundations of
Communication Sciences
PSY 5205H
Memory
PSY 5210H
Advanced Topics in Perception I
PSY 5211H
Advanced Topics in Perception II
PSY 5212H
Advanced Topics in Perception III
PSY 5220H
Advanced Topics in Cognition I
PSY 5221H
Advanced Topics in Cognition II
PSY 5222H
Advanced Topics in Cognition III
PSY 5310H
Advanced Topics in Development I
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+ Extended
course. For academic reasons, coursework is
extended into session following academic session in which
course is offered.
Program Committee
Applied Psychology and Human Development
Lee, Kang - BSc, MEd, PhD
Biochemistry
McQuibban, Angus - BSc, MSc, PhD
Biomedical Engineering
Audet, Julie - MASc, PhD
Cell and Systems Biology
Peever, John - MSc, PhD
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Collaborative Programs
Computer Science
Zemel, Richard - BA, SM, PhD
Dentistry
Sessle, Barry - BS, BDS, MDS, PhD
Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Robertson, Janice - BSc, PhD
Medical Biophysics
Stefanovic, Bojana - BASc, PhD
Medical Science
Chen, Robert - MB
Music
Bartel, Lee - BA, BMus, MEd, PhD
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Hampson, David - PhD (honorary member)
Henderson, Jeffrey – PhD
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Ramsey, Amy - PhD
Physiology
Feng, Zhong-Ping - PhD (CPIN Director)
Wojtowicz, J Martin - BSc, PhD
Psychology
Yeomans, John - BA, PhD
Rehabilitation Science
Zabjek, Karl - BSc, MClSc, PhD
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