International Max Planck Research School for Neural Circuits founded

In Spring 2011, the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research's will start the new International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Neural Circuits in cooperation with the University of Frankfurt, the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, the FIAS and the ESI.

The common focus of the IMPRS for Neural Circuits will be the understanding of neural circuits (from the simple to the large and complex), at all scales required to achieve this understanding. This ambitious objective will require analyses at the molecular, cellular, multi-cellular, network and behavioral levels, with the full understanding that macroscopic phenomena (spatial patterns, dynamics) can be scale-dependent, and that reductionism is not always sufficient as a method.