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Neuroscience Research - Department of Physiology
The Department of Physiology makes a significant contribution to the overall neuroscience research encompassed by the Monash University Centre for Brain and Behaviour (MUCBB). Within the Department the central and peripheral nervous systems are studied at a range of levels using diverse techniques including; state of the art molecular biology approaches, synaptic interactions and ion channel activity using brain slice electrophysiology and imaging, transsynaptic viral tracers, and integrative systems neurophysiology involving fetal and adult animals.
The Cellular Neurophysiology Platform - Monash Node, based in the Department of Physiology, is one of the Platform technologies within Neurosciences Victoria and the National Neuroscience Facility. This Platform provides state-of-the-art equipment and expertise for cellular neurophysiology studies, with the main emphasis on cellular and tissue electrophysiology and imaging techniques.
Research Areas
Brain development
- Ageing and the brain
- Neural stem cells and neurogenesis in the adult brain
Neural stem cell physiology
Brain slice studies
- Synaptic interactions in pathophysiologies
- Regulation of cerebral arterioles
Neuroendocrine regulation of metabolism
Fetal development and neuroprotection
- Neuroprotection treatments for the developing brain
- Mechanisms of fetal brain injury and cerebral palsy
Systems neuroscience
- structure and function of the auditory system
- structure and function of the visual system
- central and peripheral mechanisms of sensation
- control of voluntary movement
- neuroendocrine interactions
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