Neuroscience
Neuroscience (CfN) acts as a bridge from basic neuroscience to both clinical neuroscience and experimental psychology. The centre focuses on topical translational themes: Spinal cord and brainstem circuits that underlie pain, motor control and breathing; psychiatric and neuro-developmental conditions such as schizophrenia, stress and Rett syndrome; molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity; circadian rhythms; visual perception; cyclic nucleotide signal transduction; neural circuit basis of information processing, learning, and decision-making.
Experimental Approaches
- anatomical (e.g. immunocytochemistry, tract-tracing, confocal/electron microscopy)
- electrophysiological (in vivo and in vitro recording, patch-clamp, optogenetics)
- molecular biological (molecular genetics, functional genomics)
- behavioural (cognition, learning, decision-making, pain, respiration, stress)
- imaging (multi-photon and mini-scope in vivo).
CORE MEMBERS
Craig, Grieves, Gonzalez Rueda, Kohl, Hachisuka, Hughes, Jeffery, Morris, Riddell, Sampaio Baptista, Todd, Stewart, Weir
LINKS
- Glasgow Experimental MRI Centre (GEMRIC)
CONNECT WITH US
Spinal Cord Group
The Spinal Cord group includes Junichi Hachisuka, David Hughes, John Riddell, Andrew Todd, and Gregory Weir.
Brain Circuits in Health and Disease
This group includes Mick Craig, Ana González-Rueda, Roddy Grieves, Kate Jeffery, Michael Kohl, Brian Morris, John Riddell, Cassandra Sampaio Baptista, and Matt Self.
Glasgow Experimental MRI Centre (GEMRIC)
Glasgow Experimental MRI Centre (GEMRIC) is a pre-clinical MRI centre situated within the Garscube Campus of Glasgow University. The centre is housed in a custom-designed building containing two Bruker 7 Tesla pre-clinical MRI scanners, along with a fully equipped surgical suite, animal holding rooms and a physics workshop.
GEMRIC users from CfN include William Holmes, John Riddell, and Cassandra Sampaio Baptista.
Clinical
Clinical researchers include Willie Stuart, Keith Muir, and Euan McCaughey.
Highlighted Publications
- Craig, M. T., Witton, J. (2022) A cellular switchboard in memory circuits Science, 377, pp. 262-263. (doi: 10.1126/science.add2681)
- Akam, T., Lustig, A., Rowland, J. M., Kapanaiah, S. K.T., Esteve-Agraz, J., Panniello, M., Márquez, C., Kohl, M. M., Kätzel, D., Costa, R. M., Walton, M. E. (2022) Open-source, Python-based, hardware and software for controlling behavioural neuroscience experiments eLife, 11, (doi: 10.7554/eLife.67846)
- Sampaio-Baptista, C., Neyedli, H. F., Sanders, Z.-B., Biosi, K., Havard, D., Huang, Y., Andersson, J. L.R., Lühr, M., Goebel, R., Johansen-Berg, H. (2021) fMRI neurofeedback in the motor system elicits bidirectional changes in activity and in white matter structure in the adult human brain Cell Reports, 37, (doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109890)
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