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The Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience cluster supports research focused on higher brain functions that underlie complex behavioral phenomena such as learning, memory, attention, language, cognition, emotion, sensation/perception, movement, the wakefulness-sleep cycle, response to pain, and feeding. These phenomena depend on the integrated functioning of neural circuits and systems. Funded research involves human or animal subjects or computer models of neural circuits.  Research methods include non-invasive imaging of brain structure and function (e.g., EEG, MEG, PET, MRI) and advanced methods for recording neural structure and function associated with specific cognitive and behavioral processes in vivo and in vitro.

Quick Links

• Cognitive Neuroscience Consortium
• National Center on Sleep Disorders Research
• Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
• The Cognitive and Emotional Health Project
• NIH Pain Consortium
• Workshops and Summaries

Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience Funding Initiatives

• All Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience funding initiatives

Repair and Plasticity Program Staff

Scientific Staff	Research Area
Debra Babcock, MD., Ph.D. Program Director	Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
Daofen Chen, Ph.D. Program Director	Sensorimotor neuroscience, neurorehabilitation, and neurotechnologies
Emmeline Edwards, Ph.D. Deputy Director, Extramural Research Program	Neural mechanisms of complex behaviors, systems and cognitive neuroscience, neurobehavioral disorders, neuroendocrinology, CNS plasticity
James Gnadt, Ph.D. Program Director	Sensory systems neuroscience, neuroendocrinology, computational studies of neural circuits
Merrill Mitler, Ph.D. Program Director	Sleep Disorders Research, Developmental Psychology, Circadian Rhythms
Linda Porter, Ph.D. Program Director	Peripheral and central mechanisms that mediate pain, central processing of pain perception, disease-related pain disorders, and pain management
Preeti Hans Program Analyst
Janet He, Ph.D. Program Analyst

Address

Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience Cluster
Neuroscience Center
6001 Executive Blvd. Bethesda,
Maryland 20892-9523
For courier service only, use Rockville, Maryland 20852
Phone (301) 496-9964
Fax (301) 402-2060