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Division of Neuroscience
Research in the
Division of Neuroscience is aimed at understanding the fundamental
cellular and molecular mechanisms of the nervous system. It is only through
such knowledge that disorders of the nervous system will be properly understood.
The nervous system must be investigated at all levels, from the most basic
molecular interactions occurring inside nerve cells, to the complex behaviour
of vast networks of thousands or millions of interconnected neurons.
Research Groups
in the Division are studying the neural mechanisms underlying vision, hearing,
movement, memory, emotion, higher order cortical processing, development
and cardiovascular control.
Our two-photon/confocal microscope facility allows individual nerve cells
to be visualized and sub-cellular processes to be observed by injecting
special fluorescent dyes into neurons. Molecular and transgenic techniques
are increasingly used to identify important receptors and investigate the
role of particular proteins in neuronal processes. |
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