Systems Neuroscience Laboratory
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this lab-based course from Brain and Cognitive Sciences, built around hands-on training in systems neuroscience research techniques. Sessions cover anatomical methods, neurophysiological recording, and data acquisition and analysis, showing how each technique is used to study nervous system function. The course includes work with experimental animals, weekly preparation for lab sessions, two major research reports, and a series of MATLAB programming tutorials for handling neural data. Scientific writing is treated as a skill to be trained directly, with feedback aimed at improving how students report and interpret results. Materials available through OCW include lab assignments and course structure, though enrollment in the actual lab was limited to MIT students. No certificate is offered, but the syllabus and assignments give a concrete picture of how systems neuroscience research is actually conducted at the bench.