Our Objectives

  Foster and develop interest

SANS hopes to promote growth and development in the researching of neuroscience activities.

Facillitate Communication

SANS constitution believes in facilitating communication between all those interested in the broad field of neuroscience.

 Public Education

SANS aim to promote knowledge and awareness about the nervous system among the general public.

 What is Neuroscience

Neuroscience is at the interface between biology and psychology. It is about the scientific study of nervous systems. It includes study of the nature and functioning of the nervous system at all levels, from the molecules that make up individual nerve cells and the transfer of information from one nerve cell to another, to the complexities of how behaviour, thoughts and emotions are produced.

Neuroscientists are interested in many basic questions, including why do people and other animals behave, think and feel the way they do, how addictive drugs produce their effects, how brain cells develop, why they die or sometimes malfunction, and how they repair themselves when damaged.

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Future of Neuroscience

Though several advances that have been made in neuroscience research, there are still questions that remain unanswered such as in cognitive neuroscience. For example, neuroscientists have yet to explain the neural basis of memory, sleep and consciousness, sleep,and decison making as well as basis of mental diseases such as Parkinson's disease, psychotic disorders and addiction. Thus, neuroscientists are continuously working and to address many of these unresolved causes.

Recent Events

  • Behavioural neuroscience school, Nairobi, Kenya. 13-20 December 2008
  •  Neurodegeneration and Infectious diseases: Neuroscience school, Rwanda, 10th September, 2009.
  • 9th SONA Meeting, Egypt, 11-15 November 2009.
  • 25th IBRO Neuroscience School, South Africa, 24th - 28th October 2010.
  • IBRO-SANS International Symposium, South Africa, 29th-30th October 2010.
Annual Conferences