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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.

Highlights

BOAR25

Transcend: Improving animal welfare to boost translational neuroscience

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.

Young Academy

Big Tech in Academia

Tech solutions in science, not only store all kinds of data about scientists and students, they also influence them. The Young Academy wants to initiate a broad discussion about the values ​​behind the use of big tech solutions.

Wat is trauma? | Lezing en gesprek met o.a. neurowetenschapper Sabrina van Heukelum

What is Trauma? | Lecture and conversation by neuroscientist Sabrina van Heukelum and psychiatrist Derek Strijbos

What is trauma? Where is the line between something unpleasant and something traumatic, and has that line shifted over time? What does this say about our thinking about resilience and mental health?

Visiting address

Donders Centre for Neuroscience is located in the Huygens building in Nijmegen.

Huygens building - Room HG00.137
Heyendaalseweg 135
6525 AJ Nijmegen
The Netherlands

Contact

Get in touch with the research institute by contacting management assistant Marie-Louise Beenen by e-mail or give us a call.

+31 24 36 53 276 / +31 6 50 82 94 14