The goal of this course is to guide students into the essential topics of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience. The challenge for the student in this course is to integrate the diverse knowledge acquired from those levels of analysis into a more coherent understanding of brain structure and function.
This course integrates knowledge in basic, systems, clinical and computational neuroscience, and engineering with the goal of translating this integrated knowledge into the development of novel methods, technology for the clinical application for patients suffering from neuropsychiatric disorders.
The goal of VR is to embed the users in a potentially complex virtual environment while ensuring that they are able to react as if this environment were real. The course provides a human perception-action background and describes the key programming techniques for achieving efficient VR applications.
This PhD course, offered for the first time in spring 2025 and scheduled for a second session in Lausanne on May 7, 2026, aims to provide fundamental training on translational psychiatric research, emphasising neurobiological mechanisms of various psychiatric disorders. The course consists of five modules (Autism, Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders, PTSD, Anxiety and Mood Disorders) plus an introductory module, each structured into three levelsâclinical, cerebral, and synapticâtaught by Synapsy-affiliated experts.
The Computational Psychiatry Course (CPC) is organized since 2015 by the Translational Neuromodeling Unit (TNU), University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, and is designed to provide students from different fields with the necessary toolkit to master challenges in computational psychiatry research. The CPC is meant to be practically useful for students at all levels (MDs, Master, PhD, Postdoc, PI) and from diverse backgrounds (neuroscience, psychology, medicine, engineering, physics, etc.), who would like to apply modeling techniques to study cognition or brain physiology in mental health. The course will teach not only the theory of computational modeling, but also demonstrate open source software in application to example data sets.
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Additional courses covering Neuroscience at EPFL can be found here.