系统和认知神经科学组研究神经元功能的机制和结果. 感兴趣的主题包括: the encoding of visual information by the brain;functional properties of olfactory system function and perception; fetal and adolescent neuronal plasticity and its role in drug addiction; imaging studies of neurodevelopment in individuals with genetic or psychiatric disorders; themolecular basis for dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric disease; CNS and spinal cord injury; developmental models of fetal alcohol syndrome and autism; and the control of behavior by specific aspects of neuronal activity, 以及疾病如何表现出神经元功能的改变.