Neurosciences in the 21st century?

Since the early years of this century, the VU/VUmc continues to attract new generations of promising scientists both domestically and internationally and continues to integrate diverse research and human resources. We enjoy a distinguished international reputation as an innovative center for the field of neuroscience, biophysics, biostatistics and genetics research.

At the Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam we engage in interdisciplinary and synergetic workflow. We integrate various disciplines such as neurology, psychiatry, neuropsychology, neurobiology, biophysics, lasertechnology, bioinformatics, biostatics  mathematical science. Our research objectives include individuals and patient cohort, human twins, behavior, microscopic molecular structures of the brain, neurons, neurocircuits, synapses, proteins, RNA and genes. Moreover we link this to cognition, memory, learning, affective behavior and mental health.

During the last four decades neuroscientists at our campus have pursued various strategic areas of research. As of January 2009, we reorganized to establish three campus wide areas of research: Brain Disease Mechanisms, Genes and the Brain and Advanced Technology Programs. With this reorganization we further synergized our research activities and took the initiative to pursue the most important research areas in Neuroscience. Our aim is to answer the ultimate questions, of how the brain functions and how brain disorders can be explained, detected and prevented early on.