The Brain Function Research Group (BFRG) is a group within the School of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. The mandate of the Brain Function Research Group (BFRG) is to research selected functions of the brain, and physiological and biochemical processes in which the central nervous system plays a key regulatory role. These selected focus areas are pain, sleep and thermal physiology. Aspects of thermal physiology investigated are fever and the thermal responses of wild animals to their environment (in Wildlife Environmental Physiology).

For more information on the selected areas of research within the BFRG, click on the links below: Pain Sleep  Fever  Wildlife Environmental Phyiology Interested in opportunities for postgraduate study in these areas of research? BFRG Postgraduate Opportunities Collaborative research is conducted with researchers in the University's Faculties of Health Sciences and Science, and with colleagues at other universities in South Africa and abroad. Research staff in the BFRG Prof Andrea Fuller, Director Dr Robyn Hetem, Research Officer Ms Antonia Wadley, Associate Research Officer Ms Tapiwa Murenje, Senior Technician Mr Zipho Zwane, Technical Assistant

For more information on the Brain Function Research Group, contact Dr Robyn Hetem (Robyn.Hetem@wits.ac.za)