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				A B C D E F G H-K L M N-O P-Q R S T U-Z Ted Abel, PhD Dept of Biology: Genetic approaches to study the molecular basis of synaptic plasticity, memory storage and sleep/wake regulation Geoffrey K. Aguirre, MD, PhD Dept of Neurology, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience: The cognitive neuroscience of higher-level visual function, recovery of visual function following focal brain lesion or after treatment of ophthalmologic disease, perceptual learning Rexford S. Ahima, MD, PhD Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism: Neural circuits for feeding and body weight regulation; interrelationship between central energy homeostatic mechanisms and hormones; neural basis of metabolic phenotypes Abass Alavi, MD Dept of Radiology: Neuroimaging with positron emission tomography (PET); single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy Steven Altschuler, MD Dept of Pediatrics CHOP Jay Amsterdam, MD Dept of Psychiatry William M. Armstead, PhD Dept of Anesthesia: Control of cerebral hemodynamics during physiologic and pathologic conditions such as traumatic brain injury and cerebral ischemia/reperfusion Clay Armstrong, MD Dept of Physiology: Ionic channels and their gating mechanisms Steven E. Arnold, MD Dept of Neurology: Cellular and molecular neurobiology of schizophrenia and mood disorders, aging and neurodegenerative dementias Arthur Asbury, MD Dept of Neurology (Emeritus): Peripheral nerve disorders - clinical and experimental B top of page Tracy L. Bale, PhD Dept of Animal Biology: Examine the effects of stress sensitivity on the development and treatment of depression. Determine the molecular mechanisms by which stress factors influence appetite and metabolism. Examine the effects of maternal stress-sensitivity on fetal development and long-term physiological and behavioral responses Rita Balice-Gordon, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Activity-dependent synaptic plasticity during neural development, using neuromuscular and cns synapses as model systems; neurotrophic and other cell-cell signaling mechanisms underlying synapse formation and maintenance Gordon H. Baltuch, MD, PhD, FRCSC Dept of Neurosurgery: Novel surgical strategies for the treatment of epilepsy and degenerative diseases; the biology of glia in disease Robert Barchi, MD, PhD President, Thomas Jefferson University, Fairhill Professor of Medicine, Emeritus University of Pennsylvania Greg Bashaw, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Molecular mechanisms of axon growth and guidance during nervous system development. We are interested specifically in how axon guidance receptors specify attractive and repulsive signals and transmit these signals to the navigating growth cone to generate a directed motile response Stephen M. Baylor, MD Dept of Physiology: Excitation-contraction coupling in muscle; measurement of intracellular ionic concentrations Sheryl G. Beck, PhD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Effects of stress, antidepressants and corticosteroids on serotonergic-limbic system pathways Kendra Bence, PhD Dept of Animal Biology: Elucidate the role of tyrosine phosphatases in CNS control of feeding, energy expenditure, and metabolism through the use of genetic mouse models; phosphatase regulation of cell signaling pathways Jean Bennett, MD, PhD Dept of Ophthalmology: Genetics, pathology and treatment of inherited retinal degenerations Robert Berkowitz, MD Dept of Psychiatry: Weight and eating disorders Wade Berrettini, MD, PhD Dept of Psychiatry: delineating genetic influences on behavior, including behavioral disorders Julie Blendy, PhD Dept of Pharmacology: molecular basis of drug abuse Nancy Bonini, PhD Dept of Biology: Molecular genetics of neurodegenerative disease David H Brainard, PhD Dept of Psychology: Visual perception and its neural mechanisms; digital image processing Edward S. Brodkin, MD Dept of Psychiatry: Neurobiology of social behaviors, including aggressive and affiliative behaviors, studied using genetic analysis in mouse model systems. Neurobiology and genetics of autism spectrum disorders Amy Brooks-Kayal, MD Dept of Neurology & Pediatrics: Developmental and Molecular Neuroscience, Epilepsy Mark J. Brown, MD Dept of Neurology: Peripheral nerve structure and function; diabetic and other peripheral neuropathies Maja Bucan, PhD Depts of Psychiatry, Genetics: Genetic dissection of complex behaviors in mice; Functional genomics Gershon Buchsbaum, PhD Dept of Bioengineering: Visual signal processing and image coding, modeling of retinal and visual system architecture and function, computational neuroscience and neural networks Russel Buono, PhD Research and Development, Veteran's Affairs Medical Center - Coatesville: Genetics of complex neurologic and psychiatric disease; (2) oxygen controlled gene regulation. C top of page Anjan Chatterjee, MD Dept of Neurology: The cognitive neuroscience of spatial attention and representation, the neural basis of language, and the relationship of space and language Youhai Chen, MD, PhD Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Autoimmunity, apoptosis, and gene therapy Dorothy L. Cheney, PhD Dept of Biology: Social behavior and vocal communication of free-ranging birds and mammals, especially nonhuman primates Anna Rose Childress, PhD Dept of Psychiatry Akiva Cohen, PhD Dept of Neurology: Injury-induced altered brain excitability, circuit rearrangement and synaptic function Diego Contreras, MD, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Representation of information in cortical and thalamocortical networks Edward C. Cooper, MD, PhD Dept of Neurology: Regulatory mechanisms of ion channels; localization of ion channels in the mammalian CNS; molecular mechanisms through which abnormalities of CNS ion channels contribute to neurological disease H. Branch Coslett, MD Dept of Neurology: My research is directed at understanding the architecture and neural bases for human cognition. Douglas A. Coulter, PhD Dept of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology: Epilepsy, neuronal excitability, CNS rhythm generation, GABA receptors, development of neurotransmitter receptors and ion channels, synaptic function Bryan Crenshaw, PhD Dept of Otorhinolaryngology: Analysis of the role of developmental regulatory factors during mouse embryonic development Peter B. Crino, MD, PhD Dept of Neurology: Cortical maldevelopment as it relates to epilepsy, mental retardation, and autism; The Tuberous Sclerosis Complex; Brain tumors D top of page Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD Division of Neuro-oncology: Cancer induced neuroimmunological disorders, called paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes Matthew Dalva, PhD Dept. of Neuroscience: Cellular and molecular mechanisms guiding the process of synapse formation between CNS neurons; Roles of activity-dependent and activity-independent cues in cell-cell interaction in synapse development John A. Detre, MD Dept of Neurology & Radiology: Cerebral blood flow and metabolism under normal and pathophysiological conditions; functional activation of human brain; cerebrovascular disease and stroke modeling Paul J. De Weer, MD, PhD Dept of Physiology: Biochemical and biophysical mechanisms, kinetics, thermodynamics, and structure of the electrogenic sodium pump Marc A. Dichter, MD, PhD Dept of Neurology: Epilepsy; cortical physiology; regulation of synaptic function; David F. Dinges, PhD Dept of Psychiatry: Control of neurobehavioral functions by sleep and circadian processes; cognitive neuroscience and sleep; neuroendocrine and neuroimmune functions Richard L. Doty, PhD Dept of Otorhinolaryngology: Olfaction; neuro-psychopharmacology; dementia-related diseases; chemosensory psychophysics Joshua Dunaief, MD, PhD Dept of Ophthalmology: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), oxidative stress in retinal disease, retinal iron metabolism, apoptosis in the retina E top of page James H. Eberwine, PhD Dept of Pharmacology: Molecular basis of neuronal adaptation with emphasis on the following adaptive processes; tetanic potentiation, glucocorticoid-induced, age-induced as well as opiate-induced adaptation Mark Elliott, MD Dept of Radiology Graham Ellis-Davies, PhD Dept of Pharmacology & Physiology Drexel University: The research in the Ellis-Davies group involves a multi-disciplinary approach to answering questions intracellular signalling using a combination of organic synthesis, photophysical techniques and applications of the photo-bioprobes to particular questions in cell physiology and neuroscience Nader Engheta, PhD Dept of Electrical Engineering: Biologically inspired polarization imaging and applications, electromagnetics, optics, electromagnetic aspects of brain cortical potentials Russell Epstein, PhD Dept of Psychology: Neural bases of scene perception and spatial cognition in humans Dwight L. Evans, MD Dept of Psychiatry: Determine if antidepressants, conventional and novel, can benefit HIV infected individuals and extend their survival rate F top of page Martha J. Farah, PhD Dept of Psychology: Cognitive neuroscience , neuroethics Nabil H. Farhat, PhD Dept of Electrical Engineering: The focus of my research is in Corticonics where I am applying concepts and tools from nonlinear dynamics, bifurcation theory, self-organized criticality, complexity, and chaos to the modeling and study of the cortex. In corticonics (echoing electronics) I am concerned with developing a dynamical approach to understanding the cortex and its collective codes for information processing Tanya S. Ferguson, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Examining neurotransmission by studying proteins that interact and modulate the function of ion channels, transporters and pumps Thomas N. Ferraro, PhD Dept of Psychiatry: Genetic influences in complex traits and behaviors related to CNS diseases Leif Finkel, MD, PhD Dept of Bioengineering: Computer neuroscience and neuroengineering Lori Flanagan-Cato, PhD Dept of Psychology: Steroid-induced plasticity of neural circuits to control reproductive and ingestive behaviors Steven J. Fluharty, PhD Vice Provost for Research, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Dept of Animal Biology: Regulation of neuropeptide receptor gene expression and signal transduction in cultured neuronal cells and behaving animals Mark S. Forman, PhD, MD Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine: Molecular pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disease with emphasis on the frontotemporal dementias; role of glial cells; ubiquitin-proteasome system. Kevin Foskett, PhD Dept of Physiology: Molecular physiology of the inositol trisphosphate receptor calcium release channel and the cystic fibrosis chloride channel Marcos Frank, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: The function of sleep in developing and adult animals Teresa R. Franklin, PhD Dept of Psychiatry: Drug craving provoked by stimuli associated with drug use Nigel W. Fraser, PhD Dept of Microbiology: Mechanisms of Herpes Simplex Virus latency and reactivation: application to gene transfer and cancer therapy Michael Freed, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Detailed structure of the retina's neural circuitry; Encoding of visual information by the retina Mark I. Friedman, PhD Monell Chemical Senses Center: Metabolic control of feeding behavior; overeating and obesity G top of page Alan Gelperin, PhD Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center: Synaptic plasticity and learning. Olfactory information processing in the CNS. Electronic olfaction. Computational neuroscience George L. Gerstein, PhD Dept of Physiology: Representationof information in auditory and visual systems, particularly with reference to function of assemblies of neurons; models of neuronal networks Joshua Gold, PhD How the brain forms decisions about sensory stimuli: What are the underlying neural computations? Where are the circuits that perform these computations? How are these circuits shaped by experience Jeffrey A. Golden, MD Dept of Pathology: Patterning and Cell Migration in the Developing Nervous System Nicholas K. Gonatas, MD Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Intrinsic membrane proteins of the neuronal Golgi apparatus; involvement of the organelle in the pathogenesis of motor neuron disease Francisco A. González-Scarano, MD Dept of Neurology: Viral determinants of neurotropism in two systems: human immunodeficiency virus and La Crosse Bunyavirus Michael Granato, PhD Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology: Genetic control of axonal guidance in the zebrafish; the zebrafish as a model system for motor behavior regulation in psychiatric diseases Michael Anne Gratton, PhD Dept of Otorhinolaryngology: Joel H. Greenberg, PhD Dept of Neurology: Cerebrovascular physiology in both normal states and pathophysiological states; positron emission tomography; metabolic tissue changes during cerebral ischemia; activation-flow coupling Harvey J. Grill, PhD Dept of Psychology: Neural control of nutrient intake; gastrointestinal physiology; pharmacology of intake and gastrointestinal function Judith B. Grinspan, PhD Dept of Neurology: Origin and development of oligodendroglia and synthesis of myelin; control of proliferation, differentiation and survival of the oligodendroglial lineage; plasticity of oligodendroglia; programmed cell death in myelinating cells Murray Grossman, MD, EdD Dept of Neurology: Evaluating the cognitive and physiological basis for language and communicative processing in humans Raquel Gur, MD, PhD Dept of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia and gender differences in the brain Ruben C. Gur, PhD Dept of Psychiatry: Human neuropsychology, emotion and cognitive processes, integration of neurobehavioral data with neuroanatomic and neurophysiologic data on regional brain function in healthy, neurologic and psychiatric populations; understanding sex differences in health and disease from a neurodevelopmental perspective H-K top of page Joan C. Hendricks, PhD Dept of Medicine: Behavioral, gene expression profiling, and biochemical assays to characterize correlates of states of arousal in Drosophila; mutagenesis to identify genes involved in sleep-like rest homeostasis; drug testing and mutagenesis for novel mechanisms of wake promotion Elliot V. Hersh, DMD, MS, PHD Dept of Oral Surgery and Pharmacology and Director of the Division of Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Randomized controlled clinical trials of analgesic and local anesthetic agents Erika Holzbaur, PhD Dept of Physiology: Molecular and cellular approaches to study microtubule-based motors and their roles in neuronal transport, vesicular motility, and cell division Charles C. Horn, PhD Monell Chemical Senses Ctr.: Feeding behavior; Nausea and vomiting; Drug side effects; Obesity; Diabetes; Nutrition; Taste; Peripheral nervous system; Systems neuroscience Frank T. Horrigan, PhD Dept of Physiology: Molecular and biophysical mechanisms of ion channel gating; Large conductance Calcium-activated (BK) potassium channels Toshinori Hoshi, PhD Dept of Physiology: Oxidative regulation of neuronal excitability; ion channel gating; protein oxidative damage and aging Harry Ischiropoulos, Ph.D. Dept. of Pediatrics, Biochemistry and Biophysics: Oxidative stress, post-translational protein modifications and protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases. Non-invasive discovery and validation of disease biomarkers Amishi Jha, PhD Dept of Psychology: Neural basis of human memory and attention Kelly L. Jordan-Sciutto, PhD Dept of Pathology: Assessing mechanisms of neuronal death (apoptosis vs necrosis in response to neuroinflammotry mechanisms and oxidative stress and protection by neurotrophins to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal loss in neurodegenerative Disorders (i.e. Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's disease, and HIV encephalitis). We are specifically interested in the role of cell cycle proteins and transcriptional regulators in neuronal survival decisions Michael J. Kahana, PhD Dept of Psychology: Human memory and its neural mechanisms; Brain Oscillations Robert Kalb, MD Dept of Pediatrics, CHOP: Biology of nerve cells in the vertebrate central nervous system Roland G. Kallen, MD, PhD Dept of Biochemistry & Biophysics: Ion channel mediated transmembrane signal transduction. What do channels look like, how do they work in the presence and absence of modifiers and what regulates their expression of voltage-sensitive sodium channels in normal and pathologic states Alan M. Kelly, BVSc, MRCVS, PhD Dept of Pathobiology/Vet School: Development of neuromuscular specialization Max B. Kelz, MD, PhD Dept of Anesthesia: Genetic approaches to study the molecular and cellular basis of anesthetic induced loss of consciousness Daniel S. Kessler, PhD Vertebrate development; signal transduction; transcriptional regulation; primary germ layers; Spemann's organizer Tejvir S. Khurana, MD, PhD Dept of Physiology and PMA: Duchenne Muscular dystrophy, Synapse-specific gene regulation, Extraocular muscle, utrophin, myostatin, gene therapy Peter S. Klein, MD, PhD Depts of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology: Mechanism of lithium action in behavior and development, Wnt signaling in vertebrate embryogenesis and neuronal signal transduction Kyunghee Koh, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Molecular genetics of sleep and circadian rhythms in Drosophila. Igor L. Kratskin, MD, PhD Department of Otorhinolaryngology: Neurobiology of olfaction; centrifugal innervation of the olfactory bulb; function of taurine in olfactory structures; olfactory bulb in health and disease Leszek K. Kubin, PhD Dept of Animal Biology: Arousal; motor control; neural control of breathing; neurophysiology of sleep; raphe nuclei; REM sleep; serotonergic and adrenergic receptors Hank F. Kung, PhD Dept of Radiology and Pharmacology: Current research interests include 1) developing imaging agents for CNS receptors (dopamine and serotonin neurotransmitter systems), 2) agents for imaging Alzheimer's disease, and 3) neuronal functional imaging of the heart L top of page Alan M. Laties, MD Dept of Ophthalmology: Ocular anatomy and physiology; myopia Daniel D. Lee, PhD Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering: Computational neuroscience models, theoretical foundations of machine learning algorithms, as well as constructing real-time intelligent robotic systems Virginia M.-Y. Lee, PhD Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Biology of tau, synucleins and amyloid beta precursor proteins (APPs) in health and disease Caryn Lerman, PhD Department of Psychiatry: Human bio-behavioral studies employing laboratory-based methods, cohort studies, and clinical trials to investigate genotype-environment interactions in nicotine dependence Peter D. Le Roux, MD, FACS Department of Neurosurgery: Dendrites, neurodevelopment, bone morphogenetic proteins, glutamate excitotoxicity, neural regeneration Irwin B. Levitan, PhD Department of Neuroscience: Modulation of neuronal activity and neuronal ion channels Paul A. Liebman, MD Department of Anatomy: Visual receptor transduction biochemistry and related neural receptor signalling systems Jon M. Lindstrom, PhD Department of Neuroscience: The structure of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors from muscles and nerves; the autoimmune response to muscle nicotinic receptors in myasthenia gravis; nicotine-induced upregulation of nicotinic receptors Brian Litt, MD Department of Neurology: Care and treatment of individuals with epilepsy and encompasses a number of related projects Zhe Lu, MD, PhD Dept of Physiology: Molecular mechanisms of potassium channels and retinal cGMP-activated channels Irwin Lucki, PhD Department of Psychiatry and Psychology: (1) Behavioral pharmacology; (2) Mechanism of action of antidepressant and antianxiety medications; (3) Stress neurobiology and psychiatric disorders David R. Lynch, MD Dept of Neurology & Pediatrics: NMDA receptors M top of page Minghong Ma, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the sense of smell. Scott A. Mackler, MD, PhD Depts of Medicine & Psychiatry: Molecular mechanisms of cocaine addiction Scott Manaker, MD, PhD Dept of Medicine: Neural control of respiration, central integration of autonomic functions; brainstem neuroanatomy and neuropharmacology Elias R. Melhem, MD Dept of Radiology Richard R. Miselis, VMD, PhD Dept of Animal Biology: Neuroanatomy; visceral neuraxis; ingestive behaviors; homeostasis Perry Molinoff, MD Vice Provost for Research Adrian R. Morrison, DVM, PhD Dept of Animal Biology: Neural control of sleep and wakefulness N-O top of page Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD Dept of Emergency Medicine: Mechanisms of neuronal injury after cardiac arrest and stroke. Current research projects include investigation of: 1) the mechanism and consequences of disrupted calcium homeostasis in post-ischemic neurons, 2) the role of calpain and caspase proteolytic cascades in post-ischemic neuronal death Kazuko Nishikura, PhD The Wistar Institute: Molecular mechanisms and biological significance of A-to-I RNA editing Michael Nusbaum, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Neural network modulation; motor pattern selection from multifunctional networks; local, presynaptic influences; neuropeptide function Ana Lia Obaid, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Optical measurements of electrical activity; excitation-secretion coupling; simple nervous systems in vitro; enteric nervous system Charles P. O'Brien, MD, PhD Dept of Psychiatry: Pre-clinical and clinical psychopharmacology; mechanisms of drug dependence; endogenous opioids; conditioning; pharmacological treatment of addictive disorders P-Q top of page Allan I. Pack, MD, PhD Dept of Medicine: Neural control of respiration; effect of sleep on neural control of respiration, sleep apnea syndrome Larry A. Palmer, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Cortical circuits mediating direction and orientation selective responses and responses from outside the classical receptive field in visual cortex Thomas D. Parsons VMD, PhD Dept of Clinical Science: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release Laura L. Peoples, PhD Behavioral pharmacology, neuropharmacology; electrophysiological recordings in freely-moving animals Eric A. Pierce, MD, PhD Dept of Ophthalmology: Molecular bases of inherited retinal degenerations Randall N. Pittman, PhD Dept of Pharmacology: Polyglutamine repeat neurodegenerative diseases and cell signaling in the execution phase of apoptosis Brenda Porter, MD, PhD Dept of Pediatrics CHOP: I am interested in understanding the cellular and molecular changes that contribute to the development of epilepsy in the immature brain R. Arlen Price, PhD Dept of Psychiatry: Genetics of complex human traits, partilcularly obesity and psychiatric illness Edward N. Pugh, PhD Dept of Ophthalmology: Photoreceptor transduction in rods and cones; early processes in human color vision; polarization vision in vertebrates; "polarization contrast" vision R top of page Jonathan A. Raper, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Developmental neurobiology, axon guidance, synapse formation Martin Reivich, MD Dept of Neurology: Cerebral blood flow and metabolism and their regulation; cerebrovascular disorders; positron emission tomography; neuroreceptors Robert Rescorla, PhD Dept of Psychology: Behavioral study of elementary learning processes, especially Pavlovian conditioning and instrumental training Teresa Reyes, PhD Dept of Pharmacology: Central nervous system circuitry controlling food intake and metabolism; illness and infection associated anorexia and cachexia; development of obesity and metabolic syndrome in response to in utero programming (maternal and fetal undernutrition, stress or infection) Virginia M. Richards, PhD Dept of Psychology: Auditory perception; decision processes Michael Robinson, PhD Dept of Pediatrics and Pharmacology: Signaling pathways that regulate glutamate transporters and the relationship of these transporters to acute brain injury Myrna R. Rosenfeld, MD, PhD Division of Neuro-oncology: Cancer induced neuroimmunological disorders, called paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes Alan C. Rosenquist, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Anatomy and physiology of the visual system Richard J. Ross, MD, PhD Dept of Psychiatry: Neuropharmacology of sleep; basic sleep mechanisms; clinical sleep disorders; post-traumatic stress disorder; depression S top of page Jean-Pierre Saint-Jeannet, PhD Dept of Animal Biology: Regulation of cell diversity in the developing spinal cord Brian Salzberg, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Optical probes of membrane potential James C. Saunders, PhD Dept of Otorhinolaryngology: Psychobiology and neurobiology of hearing Steve Scherer, MD, PhD Dept of Neurology: Axon-Schwann cell interactions in developing and regenerating peripheral nerve William W. Schlaepfer, MD Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Post-transcriptional regulatory pathways leading to motor neuron degeneration Marc Schmidt, PhD Dept of Biology: Encoding of complex motor behaviors; auditory/motor integration; neural basis of vocal learning Amita Sehgal, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms in Drosophila Michael E. Selzer, MD, PhD Dept of Neurology: Spinal cord regeneration in lamprey Robert M. Seyfarth, PhD Dept of Psychology: Social behavior and vocal communication of free-ranging birds and mammals, especially nonhuman primates Steven J. Siegel, MD, PhD Division of NeurophyshiatryNeurobiology of schizophrenia and development of new treatment modalities including long term delivery system Donald Silberberg, MD Dept of Neurology: multiple sclerosis and related disorders, and on metabolic causes of neonatal injury Robert Siman, PhD Dept of Pharmacology Robert G. Smith, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Understanding how the structure and biophysical properties of a neuron influence the signal processing function of the surrounding neural circuit Peter Sterling, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Microcircuitry of the visual system Saul Sternberg, PhD Dept of Psychology: Human experimental and mathematical psychology Richard A. Stone, MD Dept of Ophthalmology: Ocular pharmacology and innervation; neural regulation of eye growth and refractive error Albert J. Stunkard, MD Dept of Psychiatry: Genetic, psychological, therapeutic and developmental studies of human obesity and eating disorders T top of page J. Paul Taylor, MD, PhD Dept of Neurology: The molecular basis of neurodegenerative diseases, development of target-based therapeutics John H. Teeter, PhD Monell Chemical Senses Center: Chemosensory transduction; synaptic organization of taste buds; pheromone communication; orientation to chemosensory cues Steven A. Thomas, MD, PhD Dept of Pharmacology: The roles of neurotransmission in development, neurophysiology and ultimately behavior Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, PhD Dept of Psychology: Neural bases of memory and language in humans Nancy Tkacs PhD Nursing Education: Neuroendocrine and autonomic responses to pathophysiological challenges; hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Protein misfolding and brain amyloidosis in aging and neurodegenerative diseases U-Z top of page Rita J. Valentino, Ph.D. Department of Pediatrics: Neurobiology of stress and mechanisms of stress-related psychiatric disorders; central control of visceral functions Noga Vardi, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Retinal processing - how anatomical and chemical circuit architecture code and transfer information Santosh S. Venkatesh, PhD Dept of Electrical Engineering: Neural networks; statistical pattern recognition; computational learning theory; information and complexity theory Frank A. Welsh, PhD Dept of Neurosurgery/Surgery: Molecular mechanisms of ischemic brain damage. Treatment of the ischemic brain. Role of stress proteins in the cellular defense against ischemia. Development of RNA therapy to overexpress specific proteins in the brain John H. Wolfe, VMD, PhD Dept of Pathology and Medical Genetics: Somatic gene transfer and therapy for the central nervous system For general inquiries and information, please contact Jane Hoshi.