General presentation
The Brain, Cognition, Behaviour (ED3C) doctoral school is run by Sorbonne University (SU) and co-accredited by Paris Cité University (UPC) and Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL). It brings together neuroscience and cognitive science teams from these 3 institutions, as well as a few others such as the Institut Pasteur or the University of Paris-Saclay.
More than 400 PhD students are working on their thesis within the ED3C, which brings together more than 150 teams spread across some 35 laboratories.
The ED3C's scientific field covers all the areas of its two specialities: Neuroscience and Cognitive Science.
This field includes cellular and molecular neurobiology, neuropharmacology, neurophysiology, the development of the nervous system, as well as integrative, behavioural and cognitive neuroscience. The normal or pathological functioning of the nervous system is addressed at all levels of organisation, from the molecular scale to that of complex behaviour. The modelling approach, based on data obtained in vitro and in vivo, is also supported by the doctoral school.
The ED3C's scientific policy is therefore strongly marked by the practice of multidisciplinarity and by its openness to the human sciences on the one hand and to mathematical modelling on the other, a practice which is reflected in the recruitment of students from the human sciences and the exact sciences, as well as engineers.