Research in this theme encompasses a spectrum of activities in both basic and clinical neuroscience, from molecular and genetic studies of neurotransmitter receptors, intracellular signalling pathways, ion channels and transporters, concentrating on their structure–function and roles in neurophysiology, to the cellular level, dealing with signalling both within and between neurons and also glia, synaptic transmission and the development of neural tissues, the function of neuronal networks and their relationships to higher-order cognitive processing and behaviour, and modelling the behaviour of neuronal networks.

Neuroscience is also a clinical programme in UCL Partners, which will be Europe’s leading health-research powerhouse, Neurodiagnostics, Neuroimaging and Neurotherapeutics are also research themes of the UCL/University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre.