5 departments, 4 research groups and 4 technologically oriented special laboratories work in the new research building from 2011. Important research areas are the processing of motivation and attention in the central nervous system, the formation and storage of memory and behavioral control as well as molecular and cellular mechanisms of the formation and dynamic transformation of synapses over the lifespan.
Projects located at the interface between neurobiology and systems biology investigate the regulation and dynamics of synaptic protein networks. Clinically relevant questions on motivation, attention and learning as well as on neurological diseases such as dementia are being worked on in cooperation with the University Department of Neurology and with the DZNE in Magdeburg.
The LIN is a cornerstone of the Magdeburg science campus "Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences" (CBBS) and collaborates in the Leibniz Research Alliances "Healthy Ageing", "Education Research" and "Bioactive Compounds". LIN scientists are involved in the DFG Collaborative Research Centers "Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior" and "Molecular Organization of Cellular Communication within the Immune System" as well as in the DFG Research Training Group "SynAge".
The LIN has an outstanding range of imaging techniques for non-invasive human imaging, translational animal imaging and high resolution light and electron microscopy which is funded by the DFG as Imaging Core Facility.
