The Research Institute BCN-BRAIN (Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences - Brain Research And Integrative Neuroscience’) was established in its present form in 1997. The institute is part of the university based Research School Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN).
The mission of BCN-BRAIN is to promote research that is aimed at understanding the function of the healthy brain and dysfunction of the nervous system with reference to neurological and psychiatric disorders. The research emphasizes translational collaboration between lab-based and hospital-based researchers and integrative (integrating different levels of neuroscience research) aspects. Our mission also entails educating and training master and PhD students to become independent neuroscience researchers.