Doctoral Programme in Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology

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Candidates with Master Degrees in the fields of Neuroscience, Clinical and Health Psychology, Psychiatry or other biomedical disciplines can also be admited. The Programme is also open to candidates who passed two years of the of Specialized Healthcare Training provided by the Spanish National Healthcare and related with the PhD Programme (Psychology, Psychiatry, Neurology).

Regard to candidates with other degrees considered in the art. 6th of the RD 99/2011 (foreign degrees, university titles obtained under previous regulations), the Academic Committee of the Programame have to report about their validity.

Students with the following Master Degrees can directly access to this PhD Programme:

1) University of Santiago de Compostela:

• Neuroscience
• Research in Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
• General Health Psychology

2) University of A Coruña:

• Neuroscience

2) University of Vigo:

• Neuroscience

The Academic Committee can also admit candidates with qualifications in other scientific fields and with specific interest in some area of Neuroscience, if they satisfy the general requirements to access to the PhD training. If they do not possess all the required competences, the will have to follow complementary courses.

Complementary Courses:

Complementary courses, when needed, will be individually determined by the Academic Committee for each student. They will have a limit of 15 credits (ECTS) and will be coursed before or at the time of enrollment in the Programme.

At a general orientative level, the next complementary courses must be completed:

• Students without a master degree in Neuroscience who want to develop their research in Neurobiology: They will have to pass 9 to 15 ECTS (individually oriented by the Academic Committee) among the subjects related to Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology offered in the Master of Neuroscience (USC, UdC, UVigo).
• Students without a master degree in Neuroscience or in Health Psychology who want to develop their research in Cognitive Neuroscience: They will have to pass 9 to 15 ECTS (individually oriented by the Academic Committee) among the subjects related to Psychobiology offered in the Master of Neuroscience (USC, UdC, UVigo), or among the subjects related to Psychobiology and to Behavioural Methodology offered in the Máster of General Health Psychology (USC).
• Students without a master degree in Clinical or Health Psychology who want to develop their research in Health and Clinic Psychology: They will have to pass 9 to 15 ECTS (individually oriented by the Academic Committee) among the subjects related to the area of Personality and Psychological Assessment and Treatment offered in the Master of General Health Psychology (USC).
• Students without a master degree in Neuroscience or in Clinical or Health Psychology who want to develop their research in the technological research lines (neuroimaging, computational models): The complementary courses will be assigned individually according to the previous training and the specific interest of research, among the subjects offered in the Master of Neuroscience (USC, UdC, UVigo).
• Students gaining access to the Programme with a Bachellor Degree with 300 ECTS but without formation in research, will have to pass 9 to 15 ECTS devoting to research training in the Master of Neuroscience (USC, UdC, UVigo) or in the Master of General Health Psychology (USC).

International students:

Students with an unaccredited foreign degree can apply for admission to doctoral studies provided they can certify a level of studies equal to the Spanish official University Master's Degree and authorises the holder to access Doctoral level studies in the issuing country. This admission will under no circumstances entail the accreditation of the previous degree nor its recognition for purposes other than to access these courses.

Applicants to the PhD Programme in Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology must possess the following competences:

1. Knowledge about the foundations of the nervous system organization and functioning.
2. Ability, at the level of master degree, in some of the research techniques used in the fields of neurosciences and the study of normal and pathological behaviour.
3. Ability, at the level of master degree, in the development and refinement of research protocoles in the fields of neurosciences and the study of normal and pathological behavior.
4. Ability, at the level of master degree, in collection, analysis and interpretation of scientific data.
5. To be able of aplying knowledge to search for solutions to new problems.
6. To be competent to integrate data and to connect with researchers belonging to different fields in neuroscience.
7. Ability, at the level of master degree, in oral and written scientific communication.
8. Ability to adopt ethic perspectives in the application of knowledge.
9. Advanced knowledge in at least one of the official languages in the area (Galician, Spanish), and enough English knowledge to manage to the research work (B1 level).

If applications exceed the number of places offered, the admission will be prioritized based on the Academic Record.