Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience Research
The Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience group includes faculty from diverse fields whose fundamental goal is to understand the biological basis of behavior. Faculty members in this multidisciplinary group share common interests in the neurobiology of monoamine systems, peptide transmitters and psychostimulant drug actions. Ongoing research projects employ an array of sophisticated neurochemical, electrophysiological, neuroanatomical and behavioral assays, as well as computer modeling, to investigate primary mechanisms of normal brain function and their application to neurological, neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders.
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Techniques Employed |
- Ingestive behavior
- Substance abuse
- Regulation of executive function
- Learning and memory
- Psychostimulant drugs and ADHD
- Stress, anxiety and PTSD
- Sleep and arousal
- Locomotion and neural networks
- Traumatic brain injury
- Schizophrenia
- Autism
- Parkinson's disease
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- Whole-cell patch clamp
- Multi-electrode, single-unit recording
- Sleep electrophysiology
- Fast-scan cyclic voltammetry
- Molecular profiling
- Quantitative real-time PCR
- Behavioral assays
- Tract-tracing and immunohistochemistry
- Pharmacology
- Optogenetics
- Pharmacogenetics
- Disease and injury models
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There is a strong ongoing collaboration among various investigators in the College of Medicine and other schools and colleges at Drexel.
Neurobiology and Anatomy Faculty
Pharmacology and Physiology Faculty
Microbiology and Immunology Faculty