{"id":518,"date":"2017-07-26T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T12:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bic.nus.edu.sg\/lsicorp\/?page_id=518"},"modified":"2023-11-30T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T08:57:13","slug":"neurobiology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/lsi\/neurobiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Neurobiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-532 alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 15px; max-width: 261px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/lsi\/wp-content\/themes\/nus\/data1\/images\/hidaneurons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/>The LSI Neurobiology Programme consists of a broad-based group of investigators who conduct inter-disciplinary research that includes developmental and molecular neurobiology, the neurobiology of perception and cognition, age-related neurodegenerative diseases (especially Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s disease) and stroke. NUS has made ageing and age-related diseases, especially neurodegenerative diseases, a major focus area. Members of the programme are drawn from a range of departments within and outside NUS.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Key Objectives<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>To develop NUS as a world-class hub in Neurobiology and Ageing Research<\/li>\n<li>To act as a focus for the recruitment of talented academic staff members, researchers and postgraduates<\/li>\n<li>To pay special attention to neurological problems of relevance to Singapore and Asia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Research Areas<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Assessment and mechanisms of neurodegeneration (Combining cognitive, chemical, and imaging approaches)<\/li>\n<li>Origins of vascular dysfunction in Singapore<\/li>\n<li>Predictors of stroke and dementia<\/li>\n<li>Neuronal stem cells<\/li>\n<li>Neuronal lipidomics<\/li>\n<li>Proteasomal dysfunction, mitochondrial defects and oxidative damage in neurodegeneration<\/li>\n<li>Neuroprotective strategies<\/li>\n<li>Nematode and murine models of human ageing and neurodegenerative disease<\/li>\n<li>Cognitive neuroscience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LSI Neurobiology Programme consists of a broad-based group of investigators who conduct inter-disciplinary research that includes developmental and molecular neurobiology, the neurobiology of perception and cognition, age-related neurodegenerative diseases (especially Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s disease) and stroke. NUS has made ageing and age-related diseases, especially neurodegenerative diseases, a major focus area. Members of the programme<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/lsi\/neurobiology\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"custompagewithmenu.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-518","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-mm-neurobiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/lsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/lsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/lsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/lsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/lsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/lsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/lsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/lsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/lsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}