PSYCH M116A
Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory
Also listed as NEUROSC M116A: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.09
Average grade awarded in PSYCH M116A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
43%
of the 1,057 letter grades
D, F or W
8.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
1 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,057 grades over 12 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 12 terms ran 2.57 to 3.36.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 81 · 7.7%
- A 219 · 20.7%
- A- 153 · 14.5%
- B+ 135 · 12.8%
- B 142 · 13.4%
- B- 84 · 7.9%
- C+ 73 · 6.9%
- C 56 · 5.3%
- C- 27 · 2.6%
- D+ 32 · 3.0%
- D 19 · 1.8%
- D- 25 · 2.4%
- F 11 · 1.0%
- P 1 of 1,064
- NP 1 of 1,064
- I 5 of 1,064
Percentages are of the 1,057 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRISHAM, WILLIAM E reviews ↗ | 3.07 | 3.07 | 892 | 9 | 42% | - | not teaching it |
| WONG, JARED reviews ↗ | 3.10 | 3.10 | 760 | 7 | 43% | - | not teaching it |
| BITAN, GAL reviews ↗ | 3.15 | 3.15 | 335 | 3 | 45% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| KRASNE, FRANK reviews ↗ | 3.30 | 3.31 | 315 | 3 | 53% | heavy | not teaching it |
| DOMINGUEZ, ELENA NICOLE reviews ↗ | 3.30 | 3.31 | 315 | 3 | 53% | average | not teaching it |
| RINGACH, DARIO L reviews ↗ | 2.82 | 2.80 | 221 | 2 | 30% | - | not teaching it |
| IZQUIERDO, ALICIA reviews ↗ | 3.00 | 2.99 | 219 | 2 | 37% | - | not teaching it |
| TROTT, JEREMY MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.09 | 3.08 | 54 | 2 | 48% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 6 courses long before PSYCH M116A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for PSYCH M116A in Spring 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 20B, LIFESCI 30B, and MATH 3B, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Ran in 3 of the last 3 Springs.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
(Formerly numbered 116.) (Same as Neuroscience M116A.) Lecture, one hour; laboratory, three hours. Requisites: courses 10, 100A, 100B, and 115, or Neuroscience M101A and M101B (M101B may be taken concurrently). Not open for credit to students with credit for course 116B. Designed for Psychobiology, Psychology, and Neuroscience majors. Laboratory experience with various topics in behavioral neuroscience. Hands-on experience with important methodology and experimental approaches in neuroscience. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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