International Graduate School in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience

The International Graduate School in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience (IGSIN) aims to provide an interdisciplinary training and networking platform for PhD students in the broad field of neuroscience.

En foreleser er vendt mot prosjektorlerret og forklarer noe om hjernen til studenter som sitter i rommet — Photo: Marco Hirnstein/IGSIN

Affiliation

About the research school

The International Graduate School in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience (IGSIN) was founded as a joint initiative of the Faculties of Medicine and Psychology. Its primary goal is to bring people together from different countries with different educational backgrounds and different expertise to provide an interdisciplinary training and networking platform for PhD students in the broad field of neuroscience - from basic biological, molecular, and genetic neuroscience to cognitive neuroscience as well as clinical applications related to mental and neurological disorders. In order to obtain that goal, the people involved in giving our courses come from a wide range of professions, including physicians, physicists, engineers, psychologists, psychiatrists, biologists and geneticists.

We consider such interdisciplinarity and internationality a necessity to advance the understanding of the brain and brain function, both from a basic and clinical research perspective. Our goal is to cover the full spectrum of neuroscience, from the laboratory bench to the hospital bed. We hope to serve as a springboard for curious and enthusiastic students, helping to train a new generation of excellent scientists and/or clinical practitioners. IGSIN offers both single courses and a full PhD program.

The graduate school is located at the Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, and works in collaboration with Network of European Neuroscience Schools (NENS)

IGSIN research areas

Research done by IGSIN members, both staff and PhDs, focuses on the neuroscience of attention, memory, language and laterality, mental disorders, as well as emotion and stress. Some key themes within IGSIN’s research areas are:

Reproducibility in neuroimaging
Language and language disorders
Music and emotions as well as music therapy for neurological and mental disorders
Impulse control
Non-invasive brain stimulation and its application as treatment and in diagnostics
Neural mechanisms of hallucinations and psychosis
Sleep, circadian rhythms, and stress
Neuropsychological deficits and diagnostics
Mood disorders and cognitive deficits

What does IGSIN offer its PhD's?

In addition to our courses IGSIN graduate students have access to a wide range of state-of-the art laboratories, research facilities, and methods:

Multiple neuroimaging facilities, including functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, fMRI), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), positron emission tomography (PET), and combined PET/MRI,
Clinical neuropsychological and human electrophysiological laboratories
Microarray technology
In-vivo single-cell recordings
Animal laboratory and animal models of behavior
Advanced molecular methods
Non-invasive brain stimulation laboratory
Sleep laboratory
Audio laboratory