Neuroscience

By integrating new methodological approaches, there are now excellent opportunities to experimentally investigate cognitive performance at the molecular and cellular level. This also makes it possible to understand and modulate the enormous computational power of neural networks. The complexity of individual nerve cells and their manifold communication within neural networks via synaptic contacts is the basis for an enormously broad spectrum of research fields. The integration of knowledge from many areas of biology (cell biology, molecular biology, genetics) and other natural and engineering sciences, such as physics, chemistry, and computer science, is necessary to capture this complexity of nervous systems.