BMS Neuroscience Home Page
Last Modified: 21st July 1995 - fbr@aberdeen.ac.uk
| Neuroscience is the study of nerve cells and how they work together to form the brain. The nervous system regulates many internal functions and also co-ordinates the activities we know as human behaviour. Since nerves communicate with each other by producing electrical signals, Neuroscientists have to push technologies to the limit to study the nature of these signals by recording from individual nerve cells and even from single molecules. The brain is clearly a very complex and delicate organ. By unravelling the mysteries of normal brain function, Neuroscience promotes our understanding of the devastating illnesses of the brain which afflict the lives of so many people. |