Molecular psychiatry attempts to understand the molecular basis of psychiatric disorders. The Molecular Psychiatry Association says that “Varying approaches are being applied and include neurobiology, genetics, brain imaging, biomarkers, brain expression, neural stem cells, animal models and novel drug development” (https://www.molecularpsychiatry.net/about-molecular-psychiatry-association/). The Institute for Molecular…

In these blogs, we have chosen to write about courses that most students might not ordinarily be aware of. Our intention is to provide a broad idea of the courses and an indicative list of universities. We plan to also write about issues that are…

According to The Office of Science, US Department of Energy, “The field of high energy physics is guided by intertwined science drivers to explore the elementary constituents of matter and energy, the interactions between them, and the nature of space and time”( http://science.energy.gov/hep/). The University…

The National Institute of Health Research says that there is an acknowledged shortage of health economists. It also recognized that research is core to any study of health economics, which is reflected in many courses around the world. It defined building research capacity in health…

This is a strongly research oriented field and will appeal to those interested in human psychology per se. Understanding the link between the brain and human behavior is what is at the foundation of this subject. According to the American Psychological Association, “experimental psychology examines…

While the subject of engineering mathematics, as the name suggests, blends both engineering and mathematics, some universities park the subject under ‘Computational Sciences’ as they see it as being “at the intersection of mathematics, computing, engineering and applied sciences”. Some ask for a graduation background…

There are many ways to define econometrics, with the simplest being “statistical methods used by economists”. Econometrics is a set of statistical tools that allows economists to test hypotheses using really world data. (http://economics.about.com/cs/studentresources/f/econometrics.htm) Monash University defines it thus: “Econometrics is a set of quantitative…

Boston University says that, “Though easy to define, anthropology is difficult to describe. Its subject matter is both exotic (e.g., star lore of the Australian aborigines) and commonplace (anatomy of the foot). And its focus is both sweeping (the evolution of language) and microscopic (the…