Educational program
To train specialists of masters in the field of neuroscience with professional competencies that meet the requirements of employers carrying out professional activities based on modern methodological approaches of neuroscience, aimed at solving theoretical and applied problems to identify patterns of functioning of the system "brain-environment-behavior", the development and implementation of innovative neurotechnologies in the scientific, socio-economic, medical, educational spheres of society capable of consolidating the world scientific and practical experience in neuroscience guided by moral and ethical norms and principles in professional activity.
ON1. Define and integrate interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological concepts in neuroscience, their contradictions and development prospects in order to conduct studies in the relevant research centers and institutes;
ON2. To perform analysis of the validity and effectiveness of methods and technologies in scientific and applied aspects of neuroscience in order to integrate modern approaches to studying the functioning of the nervous system at the molecular, cellular, systemic and behavioral levels;
ON3. Create scripts for automatic processing of group data using modern software packages Phyton, MATLAB for neuroengineering;
ON4. Possess an arsenal of modern approaches for the correct selection of research methods in solving theoretical and applied problems in the context of a multidisciplinary approach in neuroscience;
ON5. Develop assessment criteria and target indicators of the effectiveness of neurotechnologies in practice based on modeling cognitive processes;
ON6. Implement technologies of neurocomputer interfaces aimed at solving urgent issues of health care, state security, marketing and business;
ON7. Analyze the phylogenesis and ontogenesis of the nervous system in health and disease from the standpoint of an interdisciplinary approach in neuroscience for research developments in the diagnosis, prognosis, and rehabilitation of diseases of the nervous system;
ON8. Determine applied tasks in neuroscience in conjunction with urgent issues of education, health care, socio-economic sphere and state security;
ON9. Contribute to the implementation of neuroscience in scientific research organizations, to use of current and modernized educational neurotechnologies in higher education institutions;
ON10. Master scientific communication methods in order to broadcast own data in the field of neuroscience and ideas to the scientific community and other interested communities.
ON11. Adhere to moral and ethical standards and principles in professional and scientific-pedagogical activities;
ON12. Present proper research results to leading scientific journals in the field of neuroscience applying academic writing skills.
Master's degree educational programs
Persons entering the master’s degree or residency:
when applying to organizations of university and postgraduate education:
1) an application addressed to the head of the organization of higher and postgraduate education in any form;
2) document on higher education (original);
3) certificate of completion of the internship (for admission to residency);
4) identity document (required for personal identification);
5) six photographs 3x4 centimeters in size;
6) a medical certificate in the f
Curriculum
СЕМЕСТР 1
- History and Philosophy of Science-3 ECTS
- Pedagogy of Higher Education-5 ECTS
- Evolutionary and Developmental Neurobiology-6 ECTS
- Cognitive Psychology-9 ECTS
- Phyton and MATLAB Programming-6 ECTS
- Machine Learning-9 ECTS
- Epigenetics and neurogenetics-6 ECTS
- Neuroinformatics-9 ECTS
- Human Functional Systems-6 ECTS
- Research Seminar-1 ECTS
- Dissertation Writing-1 ECTS
СЕМЕСТР 2
- Research Seminar-1 ECTS
- Organization and Planning of Scientific Researches-6 ECTS
- Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience-9 ECTS
- Pedagogical-4 ECTS
- Foreign Language (professional)-5 ECTS
- Dissertation Writing-1 ECTS
- Psychology of Management-3 ECTS
СЕМЕСТР 3
- Research-4 ECTS
- Dissertation Writing-2 ECTS
- Neuromechanism of Decision Making-9 ECTS
- Affective Neuroscience-9 ECTS
- Current problems of neurodegenerative deseases-9 ECTS
- Research in Neuropsychopathology-9 ECTS
- Brain-computer interface-9 ECTS
- DATA Mining and Big DATA in Neuroscience-9 ECTS
- Biophysics for Neuroscience-6 ECTS
СЕМЕСТР 4
- Research-4 ECTS
- Research Seminar-1 ECTS
- Scientific Internship-3 ECTS
- Dissertation Writing-10 ECTS
- Publication in the Proceedings of International Conferences-4 ECTS
- Final Attestation-8 ECTS
Employment
Republican Center for Mental Health, Institute of Human and Animal Physiology, National Center for Neurosurgery, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry named after M.A.Aitkhozhina, MPK-Clinic, Research Institute of Oncology and Radiology
Contacts
Kustubayeva Almira Melsovna
Head of the Department of Biophysics, Biomedicine and Neuroscience, Candidate of Biological Sciences, professor
Email: almira.Kustubaeva@kaznu.kz
8 (727) 377-33-33 Int.16-68
