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Welcome to the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience, Germany!
Thinking, sensing, learning, remembering - all mental functions reside within the brain. At the same time, this organ is probably the most complex structure that evolution has ever produced.
Understanding the brain is the prerequisite for creating new methods for prevention and treatment of diseases of the nervous system. It may also help developing new strategies for learning and teaching. It may even be used for the design of new, 'intelligent' technical devices, such as neuroprostheses or more powerful computer systems. Read More...
Research News
How do neurons analyze images in the retina of the eye
Basic research on vision: Researchers from Göttingen and Martinsried find mechanisms in the nerve cells of the eye that allow to differentiate between small, high-contrast and large low-contrast objects (January 2012). Read More…
When nerve cells stop talking
Berlin’s neuroscientists decode an important mechanism of nerve cell communication (December 2011). Read More…
How brain currents arise
What exactly do measurements of brain waves reveal? Scientists at the Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) developed a model that explains the relations between nerve cell activity and measurable electrical signals (December 2011). Read More…