Faculty Areas of Interest
Systems neuroscience
Systems neuroscience is concerned with how cells behave when connected together to form neural networks. Its goal is to expose the link between perception, action and higher cognitive functions on the one hand and cells and molecules on the other. Traditionally, "systems neuroscience" was defined as the study of the function of neural circuits in intact organisms, but today it also draws on molecular and cellular approaches to understand the mechanisms underlying the vast array of complex functions that underlie sensory, motor and cognitive function.
Faculty
Albert Berger
berger@u.washington.edu
Neural and chemical control of respiration; neuron structure and function
Robert Steiner
steiner@u.washington.edu
Neuroendocrinology; reproductive physiology; regulation of neuropeptide gene expression