Systems Neuroscience   Our perceptions of the world, our coordinated motor actions, and our   conscious and subconscious thoughts all arise from distinctive patterns of   neural activity within the brain. One goal in neuroscience is to understand   how the constituent parts of the brain function as an integrated system.   This exciting problem is being actively studied in many of our laboratories.   The focus of these studies includes analyses of the organizational and   processing properties of the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, spinal cord   and autonomic nervous system. Most of this work is carried out on   laboratory animals, where it is possible to analyze the physiological and   anatomical characteristics of the nervous system in detail. Understanding   how the nervous system generates a wide repertoire of behaviors through   use of computational strategies and underlying neural architectures   provides the foundation for development of therapies to treat clinical   disorders ranging from hypertension to Parkinson's disease and other   motor diseases.