 mice), viral vectors, pharmacology, "in vitro" and "in vivo" electrophysiology, optogenetics, "in vivo" imaging, and behavioral analysis.Modeling is becoming an essential component of the field because of the complexity of the multilevel data generated.The field of MCC has its roots in the pioneering pharmacological studies of the role of NMDA receptor in long-term potentiation and spatial learning and in studies that used knockout mice to look at the role of the alpha calcium calmodulin kinase II and FYN kinase in hippocampal long-term potentiation and spatial learning.