Lund University and its neurobiological traditions.

Abstract

Lund University was founded in 1666 as part of a strategy to assimilate the province of Scania in southern Sweden, which had been obtained from Denmark after a war ending in 1658. The present main building was erected in 1882. The University Hospital and the medical departments are located in the campus area northeast of the building. The main strength of the medical faculty lies in the neuro-biosciences. In retrospect, they offer a fascinating development with interesting historical connections as well as present-day contracts between many scientific disciplines. This shows once again that real scientific progress requires the interaction of many brains; in other words, the cross-fertilization offered by a critically large mass of scientists from different fields working relatively close together over long periods of time.