Electrical signals are the essential currency of neuronal information transfer. Department faculty study neuronal signalling from the level of single channels and synapses to complete circuits, such as the visual cortex, hippocampus, and cerebellum.

FACULTY:

   • Jianhua Cang
   Functional development of the visual system

   • Peter Dallos
   Biophysics and neurobiology of the cochlea

   • David Ferster
   Mammalian visual cortex

   • Indira Raman
   Ionic mechanisms of neuronal excitability

   • Nelson Spruston
    Synaptic transmission and dendritic integration in hippocampal
    pyramidal neurons

   • Catherine Woolley
   Hormonal regulation of structural and functional plasticity
   of adult brain circuitry