Research Areas for PhD in Integrative Neuroscience
Behavioural Neuroscience
Amenesia, recognition memory, Spatial memory, episodic memory, Fornix
Psychopharmacology, animal models of mental disorders, hedonic reactions, food preference
Hippocampus, memory, emotion, Alzheimer's disease, synaptic plasticity
Human memory, neuropsychology, Functional neuroimaging, Amnesia
Learning, Memory Brain-Behaviour Relationships
Neuroimaging, white matter connectivity structuralMRI
Emotion, Social Neuroscience Neuroeconomics
Biomarkers for mental disorders, neurobiology of cognition/ emotion interactions, social cognitive neuroscience, clinical applications of functional imaging
David McGonigle
Neuroimaging (fMRI, MEG and EEG), somatosensory system and neural
correlates of skill training, perceptual learning in sensory systems
Discrimination learning, Spatial learning, Associative learning theory
Krishna Singh
Neuroimaging, visual cortex, visual motion, oscillations, BOLD visualisation
Petroc Sumner
Perception and action, visual signals, trigger actions and behavioural
measures.
Seralynne Vann
Neural basis of episodic and spatial memory
Ed Wilding
Human memory, brain imaging, Neuropsychology, Ageing
Neuroimaging, BOLD, EEG Neurovascular coupling Pharmacological fMRI
Cellular/Molecular Neuroscience
Neuronal differentiation,
cell death, Synaptic
damage, physiological function of synucleins
Brain Oscillations, sleep Absence epilepsy, Astrocyte-neuron signalling
Nuclear mechanisms in neurons for gene expression; genomic sequences and transcriptional regulators
Neuronal development, neurotrophic factors, intracellular signalling
Brain Repair, neural transplantation Stem cells, animal models of Huntington’s and Parkinson’s Disease, motor and cognitive behaviour, preclinical studies for clinical trials
Synaptic plasticity, experience- dependent plasticity, long-term memory
Neuronal cell biology & chemotaxis Psychotrophic drug action, neural stem cells
Clinical and genetic investigations of Parkinson's Disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Fronto-temporal dementia and Motor Neuron Disease
Brain Repair, Neural transplantation Stem cells, animal models of Huntington’s and Parkinson’s Disease, Motor and cognitive behaviour, Preclinical studies for clinical trials
Plasticity of the visual cortex, Developmental disorders of vision, Cortical maps
Dendritic computation, 2-photon calcium imaging, patterned uncaging, small neural networks
Genetic
Neuroscience
Bipolar disorder, depression, psychosis, schizophrenia, molecular genetics, genetic epidemiology
Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in brain function and mental disease
Neurodegeneration, Huntington’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, gene Expression, mouse models of neurodegenerative disease
Copy number variation in schizophrenia
Clinical and genetic investigations of Parkinson's Disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Fronto-temporal dementia and Motor Neuron Disease
Molecular genetics, psychiatric disorders, gene expression pathophysiology
Schizophrenia genetics bipolar disorder genetics depression genetics, ADHD genetics
Genetic aetiology, gene- environment interplay, childhood onset neuropsychiatric
Substance use and abuse, Psychiatric illness, Cigarette and drug use
Genetics, Alzheimer’s, disease, developmental dyslexia
Protein trafficking, ubiquitin, schizophrenia genetics, movement disorders, muscular dystrophy, cognitive impairment, proteomics.
Genetics of schizophrenia, ADHD, Parkinson’s disease
Behaviour, genetics, epigenetics, brain disorders