David Willshaw — INCF Neuroinformatics Portal

	Full name David Willshaw	Affiliation University of Edinburgh	Address Informatics Forum - 10 Crichton Street Room 2.50 EH8 9AB EDINBURGH United Kingdom
	Email willshaw(at)inf.ed.ac.uk	Home page http://www.neuroinformatics.org.uk/	Phone Office: +44 131 650 4404 Fax: +44 131 650 6899
Research Areas Computational neuroscience
Research focus The application of the methods of computational neurobiology -- mathematical analysis and computer simulation -- to an understanding of the development and functioning of the nervous system. Specific areas of interest: 1. The mechanisms by which retinotopically ordered projections and patterns of ocular dominance are developed between vertebrate eye and brain. 2. The mechanisms for the elimination of polyinnervation in developing muscle. 3. The functioning of the basal ganglia and related structures and their role in Parkinson's Disease. 4. The role of the mammalian hippocampus, cerebellum and neocortex in the associative storage and retrieval of information in the brain. 5. The development of neurally inspired algorithms for hard computational problems, such as combinatorial optimisation
	Profile updated: 2011-05-04