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Computational Neuroscience w/ Grace Lindsay

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

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The Importance of a Neuroscience Degree

As an undergraduate, I learned what computational neuroscience actually was because there is a pretty good concentration of it at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon. And then I decided to switch up my coursework to take more mathematics and learn computer science and computer programming so that I could start doing research in computational neuroscience. Yeah. It felt like these mathematical models that are common in computational neuroscience, they were getting that more of a how and a why answer than just collecting data and experiments.Yeah. My masters is actually, I say it's in neuroscience, but it's in biology. It's just I only took neuroscience courses. So sometimes I'll say neurobiology, but my school just didn't offer

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