行为神经科学计划的任务是训练学生行为的神经基础。我们的核心教师在学习和记忆，动机行为，感觉和运动系统以及认知神经科学领域具有专业知识。我们力求更好地了解肥胖，吸毒，精神分裂症和自闭症的潜在病理。我们使用多种最新技术，包括解剖学示踪，定向病变和药理失活，微透析，高效液相色谱，快速扫描循环伏安电生理学，遗传模型，光遗传学和功能成像。我们将这些神经科学技术与诸如操作条件，活动监控，品味反应性，食性行为的微观结构分析，空间迷宫学习，心理物理任务和认知分析等行为测量相结合，以更好地理解行为的神经基础。
The mission of the Behavioral Neuroscience Program is to train students in the neural basis of behavior. Our core faculty have expertise in the areas of learning and memory, motivated behaviors, sensory and motor systems, and cognitive neuroscience. We seek to better understand the pathologies underlying obesity, drug addiction, schizophrenia, and autism. We use a variety of state-of-the-art techniques, including anatomical tracing, directed lesions and pharmacological inactivation, microdialysis, high performance liquid chromatography, fast scan cyclic voltammetry electrophysiology, genetic models, optogenetics, and functional imaging. We combine these neuroscience techniques with such behavioral measurements as operant conditioning, activity monitoring, taste reactivity, microstructure analysis of ingestive behavior, spatial maze learning, psychophysical tasks, and cognitive assays to better understand the neural basis of behavior.