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Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

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RESEARCH CULTURE

Interdisciplinary collaboration on the brain

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TRANSFORMATIVE TRAINING

Creating future leaders in neuroscience

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Seminar

Winners of the 2019 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series Announced

The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre invites four early career neuroscientists to present exciting discoveries about the neural underpinnings of social behaviour, learning of novel skills and actions, and the effects of stress on brain function

2 September 2019

Research News

High Risk High Reward: Neuroscientists discover the key to motivational behaviours

Researchers identify specialised neural circuits that control reward-seeking and punishment-avoiding behaviour

15 August 2019

Q&A

Learning rapidly from limited experience

31 May 2019

Blog

Free will: perspectives from neuroscience

The question of whether we have free will has plagued philosophers for centuries. Recognising that neuronal activity lies at the root of all cognitive function, are we fully in control of our own actions, or is free will just an illusion? To seek answers to these questions, I spoke with leading neuroscientists and asked them to share their personal views.

20 May 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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