Centre for Neuroscience
The Centre for Neuroscience (CfN) acts as a bridge from basic neuroscience to both clinical neuroscience and experimental psychology. The centre focuses on topical translational themes: Spinal cord and brainstem circuits that underlie pain, motor control and breathing; psychiatric and neuro-developmental conditions such as schizophrenia, stress and Rett syndrome; molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity; circadian rhythms; visual perception; cyclic nucleotide signal transduction; neural circuit basis of information processing, learning, and decision-making.
History
The CfN was formed in 2010, together with the INP, to provide a focus for preclinical and translational neuroscience, and hence to exploit the evolving opportunities for translational and inter-disciplinary research within INP.
Principal Investigators
Spinal Cord Group
Hachisuka, Hughes, Maxwell, Riddell, Todd, Weir
Brain Circuits Group
Experimental Approaches
Anatomical (e.g. immunocytochemistry, tract-tracing, confocal/electron microscopy), electrophysiological (in vivo and in vitro recording, patch-clamp, optogenetics), molecular biological (molecular genetics, functional genomics), behavioural (cognition, learning, decision-making, pain, respiration, stress), and imaging (multi-photon and mini-scope in vivo).
