Committing to several years of study is not a decision to be taken lightly. We understand that. If you’re considering six years with ISN – or just a couple if you’re transferring from another institution as a graduate – you’ll be thinking carefully about the benefits of joining us. Here are a few of them: [...]
ISN offers psychology degrees from undergraduate right through to masters, delivered by leading academics in the fields of social science and psychology, evolutionary psychology, epigenetics, social neuroscience, and biochemistry. Combining supervised clinical experience and funded research, our degree will ensure graduates have the most well-rounded theory, research and clinical experience available, so that they are [...]
Throughout most of the 20th century, social and biological sciences were widely viewed as incompatible. The new field of social neuroscience challenges that belief. Social neuroscience recognises and explores the complex interrelationship that our social environment, ecology, and metabolic functions have on shaping the mind, brain, physical heath and behaviour of individuals. Using concepts and [...]
You may have noticed some of the questions scrolling across the home page of our website. Questions like: What is the role of religion and science? Why do civilisations rise and fall? What is the link between diet and mental health? Why did Brexit happen? Why was Trump elected? At ISN, we are interested in [...]
At first glance you might wonder why ISN is involved with the study and treatment of tinnitus. Why would a psychology institute work in this field? It’s well known that tinnitus is a common condition involving the hearing of noises, ringing, humming, whistling, roaring or buzzing in the absence of external sound. In fact, tinnitus [...]
ISN Psychology is the education arm of ISN, the Institute for Social Neuroscience, whose vision is to investigate the basis of character and temperament through the study of psychology, epigenetics, biochemistry, neuroscience and ecology and to apply these findings to improving the health of individuals and societies. That’s quite a long sentence, but it expresses [...]
