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Research

The department of Integrative Neurophysiology (INFlab) focusses on how circuits in the brain give rise to behaviour and cognition. With the research teams we address a wide range of exciting topics in Neuroscience research with the latest techniques.

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The latest

Check out the latest news on our publications, events etc. below!

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About us

The INFlab was founded in 2008 by Huib Mansvelder as part of the CNCR and faculty of Earth and Life Sciences at VU University. The INFLab has strong research ties with the VU Medical Center and the Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences in Amsterdam.

Our latest activities

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What makes us human? Detailed cellular maps of the entire human

An international team of neuroscientists under leadership of Ed Lein and Hongkui Zeng worked on studies to map the cell types that make up the human brain. VU scientists Natalia Goriounova, Christiaan de Kock and Huib Mansvelder and their teams also contributed to this together with neurosurgeons from the VUmc.
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Precision medicine boosted by TKI grant to N=You center

With 750 kEUR funding from TKI, Hilgo Bruining and Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen have teamed up with the company Clouds of Care in a public-private partnership to accelerate research and implementation of EEG analysis for precision medicine in patients with epilepsy or children with a neurodevelopmental disorder like autism.
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Fast neural computation at the basis of cognition

The speed at which the human brain processes information is higher than in other animal species. Neuroscientist René Wilbers discovered that by examining millions of brain cells collected from a live sample of brain tissue.