Dr Jorge Jaramillo, head of the sub-project at CIDBN Photo: CIDBN / Britta Korkowsky
Dr Jorge Jaramillo, head of the sub-project at CIDBN Photo: CIDBN / Britta Korkowsky CIDBN part of international research network on complex brain functions How do deeper areas of the brain control the dynamics in the cerebral cortex? This question is the focus of a new research network coordinated by the Allen Institute in Seattle, America. A sub-project is located at the Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN). There, the scientists aim to elucidate how the cerebral cortex interacts with subcortical structures. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world's largest public funder of basic biomedical research, is funding the research network for five years with a total of around 18 million euros. Around 460,000 euros of this will go into work at the CIDBN. In the research network "Thalamus in the middle: computations in multi-regional neuronal circuits", the thalamus plays a decisive role as a switching point between the cerebral cortex and other brain areas. Neuronal impulses are processed at this point and transmitted to different regions of the brain.
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