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Most research activities will either occur in academic departments or in research institutes (which may either be in universities or external). Both of these are included in this category.

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• Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute

  http://www.brni.org/
  Non-profit institute studying human memory and memory disorders and promoting the translation of resulting discoveries to practical medical applications.

• Brain Dynamics Center

  http://www.brain-dynamics.net/
  Studies brain disorders including ADHD, post-traumatic stress disorder, social phobia, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, Parkinson's disease and traumatic brain injury.

• Cambridge Neuroscience

  http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/
  University initiative to raise the profile of neuroscience at Cambridge by enhancing multi-disciplinary research and teaching across the University and affiliated Institutes.

• Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB)

  http://www.cmpb.uni-goettingen.de/
  The central aim of the CMPB is the detailed analysis of defined molecular processes and interactions in nerve cell in order to develop and improve therapies for psychiatric, neurological and neurodegenerative disorders

• Center for Neurobiological Science

  http://www.cerebralhealth.com/cns.php
  CNS, in association with the Brain Research and Information Network (BRAIN), is dedicated to conducting research on brain health from the perspective of contemporary neurobiology.

• Center for Neuroregeneration Research

  http://neuroregeneration.org/
  Working on developing therapies for Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and related disorders.

• Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience

  http://cpn.umc.edu/
  A multidisciplinary research coalition at the University of Mississippi Medical Center including Cellular Neuroimaging, Behavioral Studies, Human Brain Collection, and Molecular Biology themes

• Center for Visual Sciences: UC Davis

  http://cvs.ucdavis.edu/
  Research at the Center covers all aspects of vision science and aims to foster collaborative interactions between clinical and basic scientists within the fields of ophthalmology and neuroscience.

• Centre for Neuroscience, Flinders University, Adelaide Australia

  http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/NEUROSCIENCE/
  Research center for cognitive neuroscience, sensory systems, autonomic nervous system, addiction, circadian rhythms, epilepsy

• Centre for Research in Neuroscience

  http://www.mcgill.ca/crn/
  Located in the Research Institute of the Montreal General Hospital, a teaching hospital with the McGill University Health Centre. The CRN offers a program designed to train pre-doctoral students for an M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Neuroscience, as well as M.D.'s for careers as physician-scientists.

• Columbia Neuroscience

  http://neuroscience.columbia.edu/
  Provides details of the faculty, departments, institutes and facilities at the Columbia University Medical Center.

• Computational Neurobiology and Imaging Center

  http://research.mssm.edu/cnic/
  CNIC researchers study the relationships between neural function and structure at levels ranging from the molecular and cellular, through network organization of the brain.

• Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute

  http://www.cnl.salk.edu/
  Offering highly specialized information on Neurocomputing and simulators; part of the site requires membership

• Computational Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences

  http://compneuro.umb.no/
  Research group focusing on single neuron and network modeling, visual pathway, rate models and local field potential.

• Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at UMBC

  http://neurobiology.umaryland.edu/
  Research at the University of Maryland in Baltimore includes the senses, neural networks, electrophysiology, development, neuroendocrinology and advanced imaging techniques.

• Department of Neurophysiology at Ruhr-Univ. Bochum

  http://www.neurop.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
  Located at the institute for physiology at Ruhr-University Bochum. Areas of research include signal transmission, visual cortex, and computational neuroscience.

• Duke Division of Neurology

  http://neurology.medicine.duke.edu/
  Treatment and research of the most complex neurological disorders, including neuropathy, epilepsy, sleep, myasthenia gravis, and neurodegenerative disease.

• European Neuroscience Institute

  http://www.eni.gwdg.de/
  A research institute for neuroscience in Goettingen, Germany. Part of a European research network. The associated graduate school has programs in fundamental neuroscience.

• Featherstone Lab

  http://tigger.uic.edu/%7Edef/
  Research at this neurogenetics laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago is focused on understanding how the brain forms functional connections and processes information.

• Georgia Institute of Technology: Laboratory for Neuroengineering

  http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/
  Interdisciplinary research teams at the Institute bring together the study of wet-lab biomaterials, neurobiology, electronics, neuroimaging, modeling and multi-dimensional data analysis.

• Glaucoma Cell Biology Laboratory

  http://myweb.uiowa.edu/kuehnm
  Dr. Markus Kuehn at the University of Iowa is leading research into determining the cellular events that lead to retinal neurodegeneration during glaucoma, retinal ischemia and optic neuropathies.

• Gutnick-Fleidervish Laboratory

  http://www.agri.huji.ac.il/~mgutnick
  Research programs and members of the laboratory of Prof. Mike Gutnick and Dr. Ilya Fleidervish in the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel

• Horizon Research Foundation

  http://www.horizonresearch.org/
  Based in the UK, studying the state of the human brain approaching death. This includes near-death experiences, palliative care and cardiac arrest. Lists conferences and symposia and offers PDF files of peer-reviewed papers including Dr. Parnia’s AWARE findings on resuscitation. Also has articles in sections for the media, public, professionals and care-givers as well as a section on near-death experiences.

• Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory

  http://hsc.umn.edu/
  The University of Minnesota lab's research is concerned with the neural control of human movement during development and in neurological disease.

• Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences (INCI)

  http://inci.u-strasbg.fr/en/
  Research at INCI aims to understand the development and function of the nervous and neuroendocrine systems. University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.

• Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

  http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/
  The ICN is an interdisciplinary research institute at University College, London. It studies how mental processes relate to the human brain, in health and disease, for adults and children.

• Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences

  http://www.if-pan.krakow.pl/
  Information about the Institute and its neuropharmacological research, including psychotropic drugs.

• Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation

  http://icnc.huji.ac.il/
  The ICNC at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where faculty and students are involved in creating new approaches to solving the mysteries of the brain.

• Intracranial EEG and Brain Imaging Research Group

  http://www.ieeg.uni-freiburg.de/
  Interdisciplinary neurobiological research based on intracranial EEG and functional brain imaging at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

• Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology

  http://www.bristol.ac.uk/clinicalsciencesouth/hwline/
  Multi-disciplinary research centre at Bristol University with interests from the most basic molecular biology to clinical endocrinology.

• Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing

  http://www.bsp.brain.riken.jp/
  The Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing investigates and develops tools and software for analysis, extraction, enhancement, de-noising detection, localization, recognition and classification of brain signals and patterns.

• Laboratory for Speech Physiology and Motor Control

  http://faculty.washington.edu/ludomax/lab/
  Research into the neurobiology of speech production and speech disorders (in particular stuttering), at the University of Wahington.

• LONI: Laboratory of Neuro Imaging

  http://loni.usc.edu/
  This lab at USC does research into the relationship between brain structure and function using image data.

• MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity

  http://www.bris.ac.uk/synaptic/
  A consortium between the Medical Research Council and the University of Bristol, performing research into mechanisms by which neurons alter their synaptic strength and their relation to learning and memory.

• Nachum Dafny / Alan Swann

  http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/dafny
  The Dafny/Swann lab works on the neuronal mechanisms and pathways involved with drug addiction, with a focus on rodent models.

• Neuroscience at USUHS

  http://www.usuhs.mil/nes
  The Website of the Neuroscience Program at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD.

• North Pacific Epilepsy Research

  http://www.seizures.com/
  Dr. Mark Yerby undertakes clinical and epidemiological research in epilepsy, particularly the study of antiepileptic drugs, epilepsy and pregnancy. Portland, Oregon.

• Penn State Hershey Neuroscience Institute

  http://www.pennstatehershey.org/web/neuroscience/
  Aims to foster collaboration among the neuroscience-related departments and divisions within both the Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine.

• Redwood Neuroscience Institute

  http://redwood.berkeley.edu/
  RNI is a nonprofit scientific research organization studying and promoting biologically accurate mathematical models of memory and cognition.

• Self-organization in Adaptive Systems Department of Nonlinear Dynamics

  http://www.nld.ds.mpg.de/research/nldgroupfolder.2007-11-12.3980822778/nldgroup.2008-01-25.4901161232
  Herrmann lab at the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany. Research includes self-organized criticality in behavioral control and in the activity dynamics of neural networks, and computational modeling in cognitive psychology.

• Sharkey Laboratory: University of Calgary, Canada.

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~ksharkey
  Dr. Keith Sharkey and his colleagues are studying the nervous system of the gastrointestinal tract in health and disease, especially the role of nerves in intestinal inflammation.

• Southampton Neuroscience Group

  http://www.southampton.ac.uk/song
  Listing of researchers and outlines of research interests, aspects of current research projects, 3-D structures of neurons and software.

• Stanford University: Tsien Lab

  http://www.stanford.edu/group/Tsienlab/
  This lab, in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, does research on synaptic transmission, signal transduction and pathophysiology of calcium channels.

• Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience

  http://sccn.ucsd.edu/
  Applying advanced computational approaches to the study of human cognitive neuroscience data, including EEG, fMRI and concurrent EEG/fMRI.

• The Brain Research Institute

  http://www.brainresearchinstitute.org/
  An interdisciplinary research center devoted to the study of the neural mechanisms of higher mental function.

• The CNS Technology Lab, Boston University

  http://profusion.bu.edu/
  Research addresses two main problems; how does the brain control behavior, and how can technology emulate biological intelligence.

• The Human Neurodiversity Laboratory

  http://eckertlab.org/
  Outlines the research being undertaken at Dr. Mark Eckert's neuroimaging laboratory which is focused on understanding the neural basis for individual differences in cognition.

• The Laboratory of Neuroheuristics

  http://neuroheuristic.org/
  A new path towards understanding brain functions through a transdisciplinary approach uniting neuroscience, physiology and computer science.

• The MIND Institute

  http://www.mrn.org/
  A consortium of neuroscientists dedicated to finding better way to treat, and ultimately cure, mental illness through understanding the mind and brain.

• The Myelin Group

  http://cc.oulu.fi/~aheape/Site_Overview.html
  Research concerning the correct formation and maintenance of the myelin sheath. Includes publications, members, photo gallery, and views and opinions. University of Oulu.

• The Neurosciences Institute

  http://www.nsi.edu/
  Independent scientific research institution dedicated to increasing knowledge of the biological basis for brain function.

• UKU Neuroscience

  http://www.uku.fi/neuro/
  Department of Neuroscience and Neurology at the University of Kuopio in Finland.

• University François Rabelais of Tours: Inserm

  http://www.u930.tours.inserm.fr/
  Undertakes research into normal and abnormal cerebral development from the perinatal period to adulthood. In French and English.

• University Medical Center, Utrecht: Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology

  http://neuroscience-and-pharmacology-utrecht.nl/
  The research mission is to discover and delineate mechanisms and processes which are fundamental to the development of neural systems and to the control of behavior.

• Visual Information Processing Group

  http://www.exage.net/
  Research in the area of representation, analysis, recognition, storage and retrieval of visual information such as images, video and audio.

• Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL

  http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/
  Provides information on the Centre, the research being undertaken, the investigators, news and events.

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