IGSIN - International Graduate School of Interdiciplinary Neuroscience

International Graduate School in Interdiciplinary Neuroscience (IGSIN)

The International Graduate School in Interdiciplinary Neuroscience focuses on interdiciplinary (translational) neuroscience, drawing on expertise in cognitive and basic neuroscience, as well as clinical applications related to mental disorders. IGSIN is an initiative to respond to the challenges put forward by the Faculties of Medicine-Odontology and Psychology for the establishment of a graduate school jointly shared by the two faculties. The graduate school is located at the Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen.

There are three key themes of research in IGSIN

The Neuroscience of:

 •attention, memory, language and laterality

•mental disorders

•emotions and stress

The research is done in well-equipped laboratories. These includes:

 •Functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, fMRI).

•Clinical neuropsychological and human electrophysiological laboratories

•Microarray technology

•In-vivo single-cell recordings

•Animal models of behavior

•Advanced molecular methods