Research Activities

We focus on three areas of research supported by Support Facilities. A schematic overview is given in these figures.   

 

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The words molecules, genes, synapses, connectivity and brain function are the buzzwords of all our initiatives. This interest provides a strong translational potential between genetics, molecular neurobiology, functional genomics, neurophysiology, psycho-pharmacology and behavioral neuroscience within the area 'genes and the brain' but also between the latter and the 'brain disease mechanism' programs. There is strong collaboration between labs providing research support and investigators that largely depend on such activities including the clinicians and the statistical geneticists. 

 

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We put much effort in our Advanced Technology Programs, thereby securing a strong translational potential between those groups providing  for instance tailor-made laser technology and laboratories where these methods can be successfully applied (i.e. life sciences). In additional there is an established translational link between the Brain Imaging experts and those involved in any of our Brain Disease Programs, including our socalled Imaging Genetics initiatives. Statistical geneticists, biostatisticians and bioinformatics experts provide state-of-the-art Integrated Analysis and Modeling methodology; (neuro)psychologists and clinicians apply this methodology when screening patients, their genes and their endophenotypes. Further we generate novel insight through reconstruction of synaptic gene networks in the Systems Biology of the Synapse program. Finally, there is potentially a strong link between the Drugs screening and Therapy Design program and clinical activities of the 'brain disease mechanisms'.