Institute for Neurobiology and Brain Research

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The Institute for Neurobiology and Brain Research ( INH ) was a non-university research facility which, as an academy institute, belonged to the Research Center for Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW).

It was founded in Magdeburg in 1981 and was located in the immediate vicinity of the Magdeburg Medical Academy , with which the institute was connected, among other things, through a shared library and through cooperation with several university institutes. From its founding until 1990, the INH was directed by Hansjürgen Matthies , who was Professor of Pharmacology at the Medical Academy and Director of the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology. In the summer of 1990, the INH, whose research activities mainly focused on the mechanisms of learning and memory , had around 200 employees, making it one of the smaller biomedical institutions in the AdW research community.

The successor to the institute, which existed until the end of 1991 and was then re- established as a Blue List facility after a positive evaluation by the Science Council , is the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology .

literature

  • Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology. In: Barbara Witter: The libraries of the non-university research institutions in Magdeburg - Four scientific OPLs in comparison. Series: Berlin handouts on library and information science. Issue 217 (2008). Published by the Institute for Library and Information Science of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, p. 39, ISSN  1438-7662 (with historical information on the INH)
  • Hans-Georg Wolf: Organizational fate in the German unification process. The development paths of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Series: Writings of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne. Volume 27. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / Main and New York 1996, ISBN 3-593-35523-X , p. 16