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...handbook describing the new tracks sets forth the goals of the MBB initiative: "By bringing together diverse representatives from Harvard's different schools and disciplines, MBB hopes to provide an alternative to the self-reinforcing isolation of scholarship, which has been particularly severe between the natural sciences and the humanities...
...tracks allow students to integrate MBB courses--ranging from the molecular biology of the brain to the evolution of the mind--into their basic concentration course-work...
High student interest and the faculty's commitment to interdisciplinary study motivated the formation of the new tracks, according to Associate Professor of Psychiatry Steven E. Hyman, who is director of the MBB initiative...
Subsequently, MBB enables psychology students to pursue a joint psychology and biology concentration in cognitive neuroscience. The MBB program also offers a computational neuroscience track in computer science; a mind, brain and behavioral sciences track in history and science; and a neurobiology track in biology...
Seniors must also write an MBB/neuroscience-related thesis and take a non-credit interdisciplinary research workshop designed to foster communication between MBB students in different departments (please see graphic...