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CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Pharmacology,
Physiology & Neuroscience
USC School of Medicine
6439 Garners Ferry Road
VA Building 1, Third Floor
Columbia, SC 29208
(For packages, use 29209)
Phone: 803-733-3254
Fax: 803-733-1523

Office of the Dean:
803-733-3200

Department News

• Search launched for new Chair of PPN
• Jim Augustine publishes book on human brain
• Marlene Wilson named Interim Chair
• Recent Department News

Departmental Mission

The department provides expert instruction and conducts innovative research in neuroscience, physiology and pharmacology. Department faculty members teach students of medicine, nurse anesthesia and biomedical science in the classroom and the laboratory. Research activities focus on the roles of specific molecules in cellular function and their importance to organismal physiology and behavior.

FEATURED ARTICLE

Muller, Mascagni & McDonald (2007) Serotonin-immunoreactive axon terminals innervate pyramidal cells and interneurons in the rat basolateral amygdala. J. Comp Neurology, 505: pp 314-335
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