Welcome to the Mason Biopsychology Website!
Welcome to the website of the Biopsychology program at George Mason University. Here you can find information about the biopsychology graduate programs the University offers, including program requirements and application forms; information about financial aid and other support; and individual pages for faculty and students, detailing the research they are working on, CVs, and posters/publications. There are also useful links to internal and external resources, like Students in Neuroscience and the Society for Neuroscience. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you have. Thanks for visiting!
Biopsychology at George Mason University
George Mason University offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Biopsychology. Undergraduates may apply to the Accelerated M.A. in the second semester of their junior year. Faculty areas of specialization include cognition and aging (Chrosniak), neurobehavioral effects of drug exposure in pregnancy and adolescence (Smith), the role of metals in learning and memory and Alzheimer's disease (Flinn), psychophysiology of visual perception and adolescent drug effects on behavior (McDonald) and schizophrenia and related disorders (Bachus). Biopsychology students may also work with faculty in other programs – see the Neurosciences in Psychology site for links to those and descriptions of program interactions.
Please click on the degrees tab for information on the MA and PhD programs, faculty and student research interests, application information, and admission deadlines.