Ph.D. in Human Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

​​ ​​The Institute for Human Neuroscience at Boys Town National Research Hospital is collaborating with Creighton University to expand Creighton's doctoral program in Pharmacology and Neuroscience. Building on the Department's cutting-edge expertise in molecular and cellular neuroscience, the Institute for Human Neuroscience brings internationally renowned neuroimaging and systems neuroscience expertise to the program.

The Institute for Human Neuroscience

• Incredible faculty with collectively over $25 million in active NIH funding
• Tony Wilson, Ph.D.
• Max Kurz, Ph.D.
• Elizabeth Heinrichs-Graham, Ph.D.
• Gaelle Doucet, Ph.D.
• ​ Brittany Taylor, Ph.D.
  
• Unrivaled neuroimaging facilities:
• The world's only site with two state-of-the-art Truix Neo magnetoenceph​alograms (MEG)
• The highest density optically-pumped magnetometer (OPM) system in North America
• New, research-dedicated 3 Tesla Siemens Prisma MRI
• Mock MRI scanner
• Brain stimulation suite (tDCS/tACS)
• State-of-the-art motor physiology lab

Boys Town National Research Hospital is a major clinical provider in Omaha, Nebraska and the surrounding region with access to large neurology, psychiatry, and behavioral health patient populations. Areas of focus include developmental neuroscience, neuroscience of aging, development of psychiatric disorders, as well as motor and sensory neuroscience.