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Welcome to the Neuroscience & Behavior Program

The Neuroscience and Behavior (NSB) Graduate Program at UMass Amherst is one of eight Graduate Programs in the Life Sciences and part of a larger Neurosciences community at the University.  NSB brings together faculty members from various departments to provide exciting, cutting-edge research training. The program spans several areas of research including: Neuroendocrinology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Animal Behavior and Learning, Neural and Behavioral Development, and Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Computational Neuroscience. Find out more about the Initiative on Neurosciences (IONs). Follow Neurosciences at UMass on Facebook and Twitter.

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NSB Website homepage. Fluorescent image of oligodendrocytes from the Richardson lab.

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Society for Neuroscience

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Society for Neuroscience

Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology

Image from an electricity experiment in the College of Engineering.

Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology

Initiative on Neurosciences (IONS)

A faculty member and a student working together in a lab at UMass Amherst.

Initiative on Neurosciences (IONS)

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Neuroscience & Behavior

NSB Office
203 French Hall
University of Massachusetts Amherst
230 Stockbridge Road
Amherst, MA 01003-9316

Phone: 413-545-4408
E-mail: NSB-Office@umass.edu

For general inquiries, please use our IDGP Google form.

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