Our interdisciplinary community of scholars will draw from and transform a multiplicity of disciplines, including neuroscience, medicine, education, law and business. Our discoveries will remodel understanding of brain function, individuals, and society, enabling positive change and enhancing human potential.
Today, neuroscience transcends the boundaries that define traditional academic departments and traditional modes of education and support. Understanding the brain depends upon technical and intellectual advances from almost every area of modern science from psychology to biology to physical science and engineering.
Understanding behavior at all levels of function, from systems to cells, is one of the great challenges of modern biology. At Princeton University, faculty with research interests in neuroscience can be found in many departments, including Applied Math, Chemistry, Engineering, Molecular Biology, Physics.
Our major research interests are (1) to advance optical methods for studying neuronal network dynamics in the living brain at work ('in vivo') and thereby (2) reveal fundamental principles of neural circuit function with regard to computation and learning. th under physiological and pathological conditions