Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience

.The Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) is an interdisciplinary institution at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, funded by the German Excellence Initiative programme. Several faculties, the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing, Engineering and Automation are part of the CIN, whose interdisciplinary concept is further supported by numerous internal and external partners. The CIN scientists strive to further our understanding of how the brain generates function and how brain diseases impair functions. A better understanding of the brain´s capabilities and its dysfunctions allows for new approaches in diagnostics and therapy for diseases of the brain and the sensory organs, thus furnishing ideas for innovative technological applications. The scientific programme of the CIN is guided by the conviction that progress in the understanding of brain function can only be achieved by an integrative approach provided by researchers from many different fields such as Computer and Cognitive Sciences, Biology, Medicine and Physics as well as the Humanities, that combines knowledge at multiple levels of organization.