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Basic Science Research
The path from investigation to the bedside is not always straightforward. Many basic science researchers focus on questions that do not have immediate clinical significance. Nonetheless, their efforts may produce findings that, through an unanticipated route, may be used by others to unlock scientific and medical puzzles that advance patient care. Some basic scientists, though, work closer to clinical applications, such as identifying genes that may cause or exacerbate disease.
The Center for Neurobiology and Behavior is the focal point for our basic science translational work. Here, for example, scientists working at the cellular or molecular levels search for genes that may predispose individualsto certain disorders, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, or study the essential neurobiology of these and other illnesses. Other investigators seek the genetic basis for human obesity or examine how anti-depressant and anti-anxiety drugs work.
To visit the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior website, please click here.