Centers & Institutes

Research centers affiliated with the Department investigate specialized areas including learning and memory, addiction, sensory perception and theoretical neuroscience. 

  • Center for Learning and Memory

    Faculty in the Center for Learning and Memory study neural circuit function, from high-resolution imaging of synaptic connectivity to manipulation and recording of neurons, circuits and behavior, and imaging of circuit function in humans. 

  • Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research

    The Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research studies substance use disorders as treatable diseases of the brain at genetic, molecular, electrophysiological and behavioral levels. 

  • Center for Perceptual Systems

    The Center for Perceptual Systems employs neurophysiological, anatomical, computational and mathematical methods to advance our understanding of neural information processing in sensory perception. 

  • Center for Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience

    The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience develops new theoretical approaches to better understand neural computation in collaboration with the departments of Mathematics, Computer Science, Psychology, Physics and Engineering.