The human brain is an adaptive self-organizing system, whose potential for adaptation has genetic roots and is expressed through interaction with the environment. The Centre for Neuroscience is an institute consisting of researchers from both the Faculty of Science and the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. With this joint effort it investigates animals and human subjects at various levels: that of genes, biomolecules, neurons, networks of neurons and the behaviour of the organism.
The mission of the Donders Centre for Neuroscience is to obtain insight in the structure and function of the neuronal processes that are involved in cognition and in these genetic processes that are responsible for the development, plasticity and degeneration of the brain. The research requires an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on all levels from molecule to man.