SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH:
Physiologists at Dartmouth studying Systems Neuroscience focus primarily, but not exclusively, on neural control of respiratory responses during wakefulness and sleep. The approaches to this problem range from cellular, electrophysiological and molecular studies of the function and anatomy of respiratory-related processes to studies of respiratory and sleep mechanisms in intact animals and humans. The studies include analyses of afferent information (hypercapnia, hypoxia and respiratory-related reflexes), efferent control of respiratory muscle function, and generation of the respiratory rhythm. This research group uses an unusually large variety of preparations and methods to approach these problems in neuroscience.
Faculty working in the Systems Neuroscience area:
Bartlett (also cardiovascular, respiratory and sleep physiology)
Darnall (also computational biology, and respiratory and sleep physiology)
Leiter (also computational biology, cell and molecular neuroscience, and respiratory physiology)
Nattie (also cardiovascular, respiratory and sleep physiology)
Niblock (also cell and molecular neuroscience and respiratory physiology)
North (also cell signaling, molecular endocrinology, and cell and molecular neuroscience)
St. John (also respiratory physiology)
Swartz (also cardiovascular and respiratory physiology)
Yeh (also cell signaling and cell and molecular neuroscience)