马克斯·普朗克脑研究所是一个基础研究和科学培训机构,专注于了解大脑。该研究所的科学重点是电路或相互作用部分的网络,包括神经元中的分子,局部回路中的神经元和较大大脑系统中的局部回路。该研究所的科学家努力通过主要研究不太复杂的神经系统(如啮齿动物,海龟或鱼类)来获得有关大脑功能的基本见解。他们测量神经系统如何处理感觉信息,记忆如何形成和存储,电路如何结构,睡眠如何产生,适应性行为如何产生,同时试图理解控制这些过程的总体计算原理。这些研究应用了分子,成像,电子显微镜,遗传,行为和电生理方法,以及数值模拟和理论。
马克斯·普朗克脑研究所的研究重点是大脑回路的运作。它目前在三个科学部门(Helmstaedter,Schuman和Laurent),四个马克斯普朗克研究小组(Barker,Ito,Gjorgjieva和Stempel)和一个马克斯普朗克研究员小组(Acker-Palmer)进行。研究目标是了解神经系统的运作和功能、神经元中相互作用的部分分子网络、局部电路中的神经元和电路到电路的通信。该研究所的实验工作是在位于美因河畔法兰克福歌德大学自然科学校园中心的跨学科互动环境中对非灵长类动物物种(例如,大鼠和小鼠,鱼类)进行的。
The Max Planck Institute for Brain Research is a basic research and scientific training institution focused on understanding the brain. The institute's scientific focus is on circuits or interacting parts of the network, including molecules in neurons, neurons in local circuits and local circuits in larger brain systems. Scientists at the institute strive to gain basic insights into brain function by focusing on less complex nervous systems, such as in rodents, turtles or fish. They measure how the nervous system processes sensory information, how memories are formed and stored, how electrical circuits are structured, how sleep is generated, and how adaptive behaviors arise, while trying to understand the overarching computational principles that govern these processes. These studies apply molecular, imaging, electron microscopy, genetic, behavioral and electrophysiological methods, as well as numerical simulation and theory.
Research at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research focuses on the functioning of brain circuits. It is currently carried out in three scientific departments (Helmstaedter, Schuman and Laurent), four Max Planck research groups (Barker, Ito, Gjorgjieva and Stempel) and one Max Planck researcher group (Acker-Palmer). The research goal is to understand the operation and function of the nervous system, the molecular networks of the parts that interact in neurons, neurons in local circuits, and circuit-to-circuit communication. The Institute's experimental work is carried out on non-primate species (e.g., rats and mice, fish) in an interdisciplinary interactive environment located in the heart of the Goethe University's Natural Sciences campus in Frankfurt am Main.