神经科学跨学科课程提供博士课程。该计划侧重于大脑的研究，并解决了发展对认知和高级脑功能的综合理解所面临的挑战。为了应对这一挑战，神经科学的飞速发展使得研究人员在开发新的脑功能理论和新的假设进行测试时，可获得的数据量呈指数级增长。该计划的主要目的是为学生做好准备，使其参加学术界，工业界和政府界这一激动人心的领域的前沿。该计划为学生提供了丰富的跨学科知识环境，促进了成功从事研究职业所需的技能的发展。当前的教师研究重点是行为，解剖学，生理学，神经药理学，分子生物学，计算模型和信息学。与联邦机构，私人和非营利性公
The Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience offers a doctoral program. The program focuses on the study of the brain and addresses the challenge of developing an integrative understanding of cognition and higher brain function. In response to this challenge, the rapidly developing field of neuroscience has produced an exponential increase in the amount of data available to investigators as they develop new theories of brain function and new hypotheses to test. The main objective of the program is to prepare students to participate at the cutting edge of this exciting field in academia, industry, and government. The program provides students with a rich interdisciplinary intellectual environment that fosters the development of the skills they will need to successfully pursue research careers.Current faculty research focuses on the broad areas of behavior, anatomy, physiology, neuropharmacology, molecular biology, computational modeling, and informatics. External research collaborations exist with federal agencies, private and not-for-profit corporations, and other universities. The scope of research ranges from the subcellular and molecular level (in the context of such phenomena as drug addiction and the biological basis of schizophrenia) to the systems and behavioral level.Current research projects include plasticity mechanisms supporting development, network formation and information processing, cellular and subcellular models of associative learning, biochemical dynamics in disorders of the basal ganglia, computational methods for simulation of complex biological systems, role of metals in memory and Alzheimer's disease, dynamical behavior of neurons and networks of neurons, and identifying and characterizing protein interactions for the dopamine and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the brain.