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Sea, Sand, and Computational Neuroscience

Now wrapping up its ninth annual session, the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course has earned a reputation as one of the best short neuroscience courses in the world.

Research Update

A central, controversial, and long-standing question in neuroscience is how neurons encode the information they are sending along: is it the rate of spike firing that carries the message, or is the timing of the output spikes from a neuron relative to the input to that neuron more important?

06 February 2012

Research Update

A 3D reconstructed “forest” of neurons

by Micheal E. Cooper OIST researcher Hermina Nedelescu combines genetics, microscopy and computational anatomy to unravel the dense neuronal forest of Purkinje cells in the adult cerebellum.

29 September 2011

Research Update

Paper by Dr. Eric De Schutter published in European Journal of Neuroscience

Institutional News

Aspiring to become world-leading neuroscientists

Research Update

Dr. Erik De Schutter, OIST Principal Investigator, becomes President of the Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS).

03 February 2010