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Dr E Bracci No more applications being accepted Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

About the Project

The striatum is a brain area crucially involved in action selection and reward-mediated learning. Unravelling the neuronal circuits underlying these functions is essential to understand their operation and to find therapies for when things go wrong (for instance in drug addiction). State of the art electrophysiological techniques and photostimulation (optogenetics) will be used.

Funding Notes

This is one of many projects in competition for the current funding opportunities available within the Department of Psychology. Please see here for full details: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/psychology/prospectivepg/funding
Overseas students are welcome to apply for funding but must be able to demonstrate that they can fund the difference in the tuition fees.
Requirements: We ask for a minimum of a first class or high upper second-class undergraduate honours degree and a distinction or high merit at Masters level in psychology or a related discipline.

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The reward circuits of the striatum

University of Sheffield Department of Psychology