Donders Centre for Neuroscience

The Donders Centre for Neuroscience (DCN) aims to understand the complex neural networks underlying perceptual, motor and cognitive brain functions. Researchers study these networks by employing experimental as well as computational approaches. DCN is a part of Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and the Faculty of Science.

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ERC Consolidator Grants for research on methane eaters, air showers and language in our brain

09 December 2025 Research news item

Five Radboud University researchers are set to receive a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Their research covers topics such as methane-eating micro-organisms, air showers from space, and how our brain processes language.

How Fruit Flies Can Help Us Understand Diseases Such as ALS

15 October 2025 Research news item

If we can understand exactly how ALS progress in fruit flies, we may also gain valuable insights into how this develop in humans. Research by Marije Been of Radboud University shows that the formation of protein clumps may mark the onset of ALS.

Transcend: Improving animal welfare to boost translational neuroscience

04 June 2025 Research news item

How can we make animal research more humane—and more scientifically effective? That question is at the heart of a major new European project led by Klaus Eyer from Aarhus University in Denmark, and in part by Donders Institute researcher Lisa Genzel.