Behavioural Neuroscience
Behavioural Neuroscience includes a substantial number of researchers with overlapping interests in learning, memory, motivation, and cognition.
Research is supported by extensive suites of laboratories that provide a superb research environment. Research encompasses examination of molecular, cellular, neural, neurochemical and genetic underpinnings of learning, behaviour and cognition.
Active collaborations exist with researchers in the Schools of Bioscience and Optometry, and the Department of Psychological Medicine in the School of Medicine, as well as with industrial partners such as Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline, and researchers at CNRS (France), NIMH and UCLA (USA) and UNSW (Australia).
Research Areas
Behavioural Genetics works on one of the biggest questions in biology today. How do the genetic cards we are dealt at the moment of conception interact with our lifetime experiences, from womb to grave, to give rise to our unique behavioural profile and our risk of neurological and psychiatric disorder?
The Learning, Memory and Motivation neuroscience group includes a substantial number of researchers with overlapping interests in the neurobiology of spatial cognition, dissociable memory systems, animal models of mental disorders, psychopharmacology, emotional and motivational systems, and executive function.