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    1. Labs/Research

      1. NURON Lab

        R119
        Department:         Psychology 
        Lab Directors:         Dr. Andrew Weeks and Dr. Matti Saari
        https://nuronlabs.wordpress.com

        Dr. Weeks and his team study the neural basis of learning and memory in the Nipissing University Research on Neuroscience (NURON) lab. They are interested in how the synapses between neurons change following learning events, stress, or drug use (e.g. cannabis). Quantifying and understanding the physical imprint that learning leaves on these ultra-microscopic brain structures is the primary goal of the NURON lab's current research.

        Dr. Matti Saari's team focuses on simpler neural systems like that of the planarian flatworm. Some of their reearch focuses on how neural behaviour plasticity are manifested in these animals. They have documented, for example, that housing the worms in isolation versus in groups has a profound impact on their activity level.
        NURON – Nipissing University Research on Neuroscience

        Welcome!

        Welcome to Nipissing University Research on Neurons website. Here you will find some information on who we are, what we do, and how to join us. We have more than 40 years of history at Nipissing University! Dr. Matti Saari started the lab in the late 1970’s and since then many talented students have done research in the lab and gone on to great careers in research and medicine. Some students even came back and started up their own line of neuroscience research (Andrew)!

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        Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

        David Eagleman

        Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we’d like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.

        Matt Haig

        There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

        Francis Crick
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