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Welcome to the
Department of Neuroscience, located in the School
of Medicine at the University
of Pennsylvania. Founded in 1992 to recognize the growing importance
of neuroscience as a scientific discipline, the Department laboratories
pursue a wide variety of research interests reflecting the entire
range of modern neuroscience. The Department lies at the heart
of the campus-wide Mahoney Institute
of Neurological Sciences, the first research organization to
receive NIH funding for training in the neurosciences.
Our mission is to study the function and dysfunction of the
nervous system, and to train graduate students, medical students,
and undergraduate students so they can become leaders of a new generation
of neuroscientists.
Our research interests can be divided into these three main
areas:
• Cellular and Molecular
Neuroscience: Structure and function of molecules that are responsible
for functioning of cells of the nervous system.
•Developmental Neuroscience:
Determination of the factors that govern the growth and differentiation
of neural cells and tissues.
• Systems Neuroscience:
Addressing questions of how nerve cells in the brain cooperate to
generate higher-order processes including perception, learning and
complex behaviors.
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