Presently, the NNI has developed strengths in these 3 key areas of neuroscience research:

• Molecular Mechanisms & Genetics
• Applied Technology & Imaging
• Neuro-epidemiology Studies and Clinical Trials
• Others

• Investigation of Neurological Consequences of Specific Ablation of Alternative Spliced Exons of Voltage-gated Calcium Channels: Generation of Knock-out Mice and Assessment of Altered Behavioural Traits
  
• Molecular Studies of Voltage-gated Calcium Channel Disorders and Examination of Possible Endogenous Ligands
  
• Structural and Functional Studies of Glutamate Receptor Proximal N-Terminal Domain
  
• Molecular Characterisation of Adult Onset Multiple Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (MADD)
  
• Molecular Genetics Programme in Neuromuscular Diseases
  
• Mitochondrial Complex I Polymorphism and Susceptibility to Parkinson's Disease
  
• Analysis of Parkin Gene Mutations in Parkinson's Disease
  
• NURR1 Gene Mutations in Parkinson's Disease
  
• Determination of the Role of Iron in the Cell Death of Dopaminergic Neurons in Hemi-Parkinsonian Rats
  
• The Role of Parkin in Lewy Body Formation and Dopaminergic Neuronal Death in Parkinson's Disease
  
• The Gene Expression Profile Inderlying Endothelial Dysfunction in a Microvascular Stroke Syndrome
  
• Investigation of the Histopathological and Neurochemical Features of an MK-801 Induced NMDA Receptor Hypoactivity Animal Model
  
• Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors and Their Related Signal Transduction Systems in Epilepsy
  
• Prevention of Neuronal Death and Seizure by the Agonists and Antagonists of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in the Animal Model of Status Epilepticus
  
• Reversible Immortalisation of Normal and Myopathic Human Myoblasts
  
• Poly (ADP-ribose) Polymerase Activation in Human Contusional Tissue and Its Relation with Outcome in Humans
  
• The Function of Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Alpha (PTPa) in Myelination - Analysis of PTPa Deficient Mice

Digital & Info Technology

• Virtual Reality Environment for Surgery Planning
  
• Development of a Neurosurgical Intra Operative Stereo Navigation System
  
• IDA - Mobile Nursing Informatics
  
• MIRIP - Medical Image Repository Interface with PACS - a Neuroradiology Knowledge Resource Server

Bio-engineering & Material Science

• Evaluation of a Novel Biodegradable Nerve Guide Conduit for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration in an Animal Model: A Pre-Clinical Study

Imaging

• Cerebral CT Perfusion - Utility in Chronic Ischemia and Neoplasia
  
• Functional MRI of Reading in Normal and Dyslexic Subjects
  
• Magnetic Resonace Spectroscopy Correlation with Histological Analysis Gilomas
  
• Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Alzheimer's Disease
  
• Nipah Virus Infection of the CNS - Prospective Magnetic Resonance Imaging in an Emerging Disease
  
• Computer-Aided Functional & Anatomical Neuronavigation in Neurosurgery
  
• EPITHET - Echoplanar Imaging Thrombolysis Evaluation Trial
  

• Bilateral Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Medically Intractable Advanced Parkinson's Disease
  
• Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Receptor Expression in Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations (AVM) of the Brain
  
• Determination of Polyamines in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Hemorrhagic Stroke Patients
  
• Ultrastructural Endothelial Abnormalities and Stroke
  
• Brain Tissue Oxygenation in Acute Brain Injury
  
• Stereotactic Aspiration of Primary Supratentorial Intracerebral Hematoma. A Prospective Randomised Study
  
• Epidermal Nerve Fibre Density Diabetic Neuropathy