The Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience group studies the mechanisms and outcomes of neuronal function.

 

 

 

Topics of interest include:

• The encoding of visual information by the brain
• Functional properties of olfactory system function and perception
• Fetal and adolescent neuronal plasticity and its role in drug addiction
• Imaging studies of neurodevelopment in individuals with genetic or psychiatric disorders
• The molecular basis for dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric disease
• CNS and spinal cord injury
• Developmental models of fetal alcohol syndrome and autism
• The control of behavior by specific aspects of neuronal activity, and how disease manifests alterations in neuronal function.