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The Centre for Neuroscience (CNS) was established as an institute of Flinders University, within the Flinders Medical Centre, in 1977 and was the first of its kind to be established in an Australian university.

The Centre for Neuroscience is a collective of multidisciplinary researchers and clinicians with a common goal of understanding the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves in health and disease.

We explore fundamental mechanisms of how nerve cells grow and form complex networks; how nerves communicate with other nerves and with their target organs; how the brain generates normal and abnormal behaviour; how the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves respond to damage or disease; and how the nervous system ages.

The Centre provides a dynamic multidisciplinary training environment for postgraduate research students, and for undergraduate students in health, science and social sciences.

We study the nervous system from the molecular and cellular level up to the level of the whole behaving organism. We use a wide range of state-of-the-art research strategies in the fields of neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, neuropharmacology, neuropsychology and neuronal modelling.

We are committed to translation of this fundamental knowledge into clinical practice, and optimisation of commercial development of materials and procedures, to improve the quality of life for all members of society.

Our research provides the foundation for advances in medical specialties such as neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, radiology, gastroenterology, cardiology, ophthalmology and speech pathology.