Translational Neuroscience

The neuroscience programme at the Aberdeen IMS places particular emphasis on bridging the gap between the cellular neuroscience and the behaviour controlled by the brain - how molecular events that control function of neural cells set up the firing outputs of neuronal networks, reading out as the brains control of behaviour. These behaviours may be as simple as sitting reading this webpage or standing in the sun swinging a golf club; or they may be as advanced as our own brain developing a new theory as to how the brain works and wondering whether we can also lift ourselves up by our own bootstraps.