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Genes to Cognition
Genes to Cognition
| Title: | Genes to Cognition |
| Title abbreviated: | G2C |
| Title alternative: | Neuroscience Research Programme |
| Identifier: | http://www.genes2cognition.org/ |
| Creator: | Team 32 - Genes to Cognition <Hinxton> |
| Publisher: |
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
| Abstract: | Genes to Cognition (G2C) is a neuroscience research programme with the dual aim of discovering fundamental biological principles and important insights into brain disease. G2C is an international collaborative program initiated by Dr. Seth Grant and supported by the Wellcome Trust following the discovery that multiprotein complexes formed by intracellular proteins and neurotransmitter receptors were important for neuronal plasticity and behaviour. Multiprotein complexes are involved with dozens of brain diseases, control multiple types of behaviours and are involved with the responses to drug treatments of mental disorders. Evolutionary studies show ancient forms of the complexes evolved over a billion years in single cell animals and may represent the origin of the brain. The long term goal is to understand the molecular basis of the extraordinarily complex brain of humans, how this complexity evolved, what it confers on behaviour and why brain evolution made us susceptible to mental illness. The G2C project has a unique database called G2Cdb that houses data resources from the research program and G2C has a very interesting educational program called G2COnline. [Information of the supplier, modified] |
| Table of contents: | About / Research / Overview / Behaviour / Informatics / Electrophysiology / Brain slice / Cultured neuron / Human Genetics / Gene Targeting / Synapse Proteomics / Biological Resources / Publications / Database / Search / Alleles / Gene Lists / Mouse Lines / Human Disease / Phenotyping / Vectors / Education. |
| Subject: |
Biochemical genetics (572.8); Nervous and sensory system (573.8) » find similar sources! |
| Audience: | Intermediate; Experts |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | website; database |
| Resource type: |
Factual databases; Research projects; Discipline based websites |
| Access: | free |
| Metadata update date: | 2015-04-16 |
| Metadata provider: |
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| URL of this vifabio-resource: | http://www.vifabio.de/en/iqfBio/detail/7120 |
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