Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the country’s birth rate. This led to the ...

A new study published in Neurobiology of Aging suggests that even in people without diabetes, higher blood sugar levels may ...

Strategies to combat addiction The knowledge of the neurobiology of drugs and the adaptive changes that occur with addiction is guiding new strategies for prevention and treatment, and identifying ...

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host a two-day public workshop that brings together leaders and experts across disciplines and sectors to ...

According to a new study from Japan, it all comes down to the precise timing of two brain chemicals: dopamine and ...

Our research strategy is based on an integrative approach, where physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms are investigated from the molecular and cellular level to the whole organism. We also ...

Our mission is to bridge the gap between scientific discovery and clinical application by 1) developing and optimizing promising therapies and 2) improving existing protocols, for the treatment of ...

The nervous system enables humans to react to their surroundings and to coordinate their behaviour. It comprises millions of neurones and uses electrical impulses to communicate very quickly ...

Circadian rhythms are driven by internal body clocks that are found throughout the body. Laboratories in this area study the mechanisms of circadian signaling that occurs in various brain regions, and ...

The first time Kees van Heeringen met Valerie, the 16-year-old girl had just jumped from a bridge. It was the 1980s and van Heeringen was working as a trainee psychiatrist at the physical ...

Most of the graduate students in our department are students from the Neuroscience graduate program, but many of our faculty also accept students from other graduate programs.