Behavioral Neuroscience Research Areas Print E-mail

 

The faculty in the Behavioral Neuroscience Program represents the following research areas. Consult the Faculty descriptions for more details about current research.
  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • Autism spectrum disorders
  • Biochemical mechanisms underlying learning and memory
  • Circadian rhythms
  • Constraint-induced movement therapy
  • Development of age-related cognitive deficits
  • Neural substrates of depression
  • Limbic system structure and function in emotion
  • Neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Neural control of eye movements
  • Neuronal computation and early visual processing by the brain
  • Neural and hormonal systems involved in control of eating and body weight
  • Neural models of addiction as applied to obesity
  • Neural substrates of human learning, memory, and emotion
  • Pain
  • Pathogenesis of dopaminergic systems in neuropsychiatric disorders
  • Schizophrenia
  • Stress and pain