Professor Colin Ingram

Director, Institute of Neuroscience

Newcastle University

Personal Page on University Web Site

Postal Address:

Institute of Neuroscience,
Newcastle University
Medical School, Framlington Place,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK

Tel: (+44) 191 222 8210

Fax: (+44) 191 222 5227

E-mail: c.d.ingram@ncl.ac.uk

Personal Assistant:

Ms Christine Cairns
Tel: (+44) 191 222 7167

E-mail: christine.cairns@ncl.ac.uk

I am the Director of the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle, a role I
share with Professor Anya Hurlbert. The Institute has around 60 faculty
and covers a broad range of topics but with particular strengths in
systems and cognitive neuroscience, neuropharmacology, clinical
neuroscience, and behavioural neuroscience. My own research
interests are in the psychobiology of stress, anxiety and depression. In
this we have been examining the factors regulating serotonin neurones
in the dorsal raphe nucleus, especially the interaction with the adrenal
steroids which are released during stress and the possibility that
modulation of either corticosteroid levels or their effect may have
therapeutic potential for the treatment of affective disorders. Recent
work has also identified and characterised the role of oxytocin as a
potent, endogenous anti-stress agent. I also have an interest in the way
in which data may be analysed and shared using developments in the
computing grid (cyberinfrastructure) and in this capacity I lead the
CARMEN e-science project. Other roles that I have include being the
current Honorary Secretary of the British Neuroscience Association.