Neuropeptide Y contracts your pupil and causes longlasting contractions of blood vessels in the brain. The department has experts in many of these areas, focusing on the synthesis, storage, release and regulation of transmitters. The studies of regulation of neurotransmitter metabolism now have progressed to include molecular modeling as part of experimental design. The department has active research concerning a number of second messenger systems. In addition, intracellular signaling among the far-flung parts of neurons is also a hot area of much interest in the department.
Networks are a unique attribute of the nervous system and to a lesser extent the endocrine system.
Networks are studied by recording the properties and responses of many individual neurons simultaneously in order to discern how their synaptic properties may be modified such that, as a coordinated group, they are able to store and transmit information. Contact Webmaster Copyright 2001.