The "Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience (OCC) is an interdisciplinary research center within the range of the Life sciences, supported by renowned scientists from different working groups of the faculties of Medicine, Biology, Psychology and Sports science at the University of Münster.

The broad spectrum of research areas covers the neural basis of cognitive and social behavior, cognitive, perceptual, and motor processes, their plasticity, their dysfunction in depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, and distress, prenatal influences on physiology and behavior, and much more. All modern neuroimaging methods are employed as well as methods of behavior recording and analysis, molecular genetics, and neurophysiology.

The OCC offers a structured doctoral program as a cross-faculty education with a specialization in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience to outstanding graduates from the fields of Medicine, Psychology, Biology, Physics and related subjects.

Type of institution:
Universität

Work focus:
Kognitive Neurowissenschaften, Verhaltensneurobiologie

Address:
Fliednerstr. 21
D-48149 Münster
DE

Phone:
+49 (0) 0251 83-31361

E-Mail:
occ.info@uni-muenster.de

Homepage:
http://occ.uni-muenster.de