Centre for Neuroscience
Using Magnetic Resonance
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
(provided by Mr Sam Eljamel)
The human brain contains billions of nerve cells, many of which receive connections from thousands of other neurones. The challenge for Neuroscience is to better understand this neuronal communication and to discern how such conversations are integrated, organized and translated within neural networks to ultimately influence our physiology and to produce complex behaviours such as cognition and emotion. Of particular importance is improving our understanding of how this neuronal dialogue is disrupted in devastating conditions including Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, stroke and epilepsy and in complex pyschiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and addiction. Surprisingly, it is only recently that Neuroscience has emerged as a distinct discipline, to become one of the most challenging, dynamic and exciting areas of modern biomedical research.
A hippocampal neurone
(image provided by
Sarah Mizielinska)
The Centre for Neuroscience currently houses 25 Principal Investigators and provides a truly interdisciplinary research environment to study how the nervous system works in both health and disease. Of high priority within the Centre is the teaching and training of the next generation of clinicians and scientists in this exciting area of biomedicine. Research ranges from investigating the expression, trafficking and activity of single receptors, through to clinical studies designed to improve our understanding of complex psychiatric disorders. Research within the Centre is organized within the following interacting sections:
Additionally, there are important collaborations with researchers in the Biomedical Research Institute and with the College of Life Sciences.
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