Our mission

Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

RESEARCH CULTURE

Interdisciplinary collaboration on the brain

A group of students in the SWC PhD programme perorming an imagin experiment

TRANSFORMATIVE TRAINING

Creating future leaders in neuroscience

In Conversation: Laure Rondi-Reig and Tom Otis discuss the cerebellum

When Dr Rondi-Reig started her PhD, the idea that cerebellum played a role in spatial cognition was a hard sell. A lot has changed since then.

13 February 2020

Ties that Bind: Dr Ann Clemens is looking for the neural mechanisms of kinship

27 January 2020

Dr Ann Clemens is looking for the neural mechanisms of kinship

19 Things We Learned in 2019

As 2019 comes to a close, we count down the many things we learned this year.

13 December 2019

Dr Tiago Branco Receives Five Years of ERC Funding

He is one of three researchers at UCL and 50 in the UK to receive a European Research Council Consolidator Grant as part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

11 December 2019

Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

How does the brain allow us to think, feel, see, smell, hear, laugh and love? By bringing together world-leading experimental and computational neuroscientists, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre's mission is to explain how activity in brain circuits gives rise to thoughts, sensations, memories and actions.

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SWC Seminar: Neural systems for vocal communication

Dr Catherine Perrodin

University College London

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SWC Seminar: Minimally Invasive Optogenetics and Dorsal Raphe in Sleep and Arousal

Dr Viviana Gradinaru, Professor of Neuroscience

California Institute of Technology

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SWC Seminar: Cortical and collicular contributions to decision making in rats and mice

Dr Chunyu Ann Duan

Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences