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A B C D E F G H-K L M N-O P-Q R S T U-Z A top of page Ted Abel, PhD
Dept of Biology: Genetic approaches to study the molecular basis of
synaptic plasticity, learning and memory
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
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
Arthur Asbury, MD
Dept of Neurology (Emeritus): Peripheral nerve disorders - clinical and
experimental
Gary Aston-Jones, PhD
Dept of Psychiatry: Neurobiology of attention, affect, motivation and
reward. Focus on neuromodulatory systems of norepinephrine, dopamine,
and cholinergic neurons. Drug abuse, attention deficit disorder and
stress/depression.
Benjamin T. Backus, PhD Dept of Psychology: Visual perception; space perception; binocular vision, and stereopsis. 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 Dept
of Neuroscience: Molecular characterization of ion channels in excitable
membranes 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
Jean Bennett, MD, PhD Dept
of Ophthalmology: Genetics, pathology and treatment of inherited retinal
degenerations 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
Kwabena A. Boahen, PhD
Depts of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering: Designing mixed
analog-digital, multichip, microelectronic systems that model the
structure and function of early
stages of the visual and auditory pathways
Nancy Bonini, PhD Dept of Biology:
Molecular genetics of neurodegenerative disease 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
Russell J. Buono, PhD
Department of Psychiatry: (1) Genetics of complex neurological and
psychiatric illness; (2) oxygen controlled gene regulation
Debu Chakravarti, PhD
Dept of Pharmacology: Molecular mechanisms and regulations of steroid
hormone and vitamin signaling
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
Dorothy L. Cheney, PhD Dept
of Biology: Social behavior and vocal communication of free-ranging
birds and mammals, especially nonhuman primates.
Kathryn Commons, PhD
Dept of Anesthesiology: Neurochemical architecture, function and plasticity of brain circuits influencing pain perception
Diego Contreras, MD, PhD
Dept of Neuroscience: Representation of information in corticothalamic
networks. Epilepsy. 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 Akiva Cohen, PhD Dept of Pediatrics: Brain excitability and circuit rearrangement and their alterations observed under pathophysiology 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 Bryan Crenshaw, PhD Mammalian
Neurogenetics Lab/CHOP: 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
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. Richard O. Davies DVM, PhD Dept
of Animal Biology: Neural control of respiration; upper airway function;
sleep apnea; motor control 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; neuroendocrine and neuroimmune functions; sleep
disorders
Robert W. Doms, PhD Dept of
Pathology and Lab Medicine: Cell biology of membrane proteins involved
in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis; Viral neuropathogenesis
Richard L. Doty, PhD Dept of Otorhinolaryngology:
Olfaction; neuro-psychopharmacology; dementia-related diseases; chemosensory
psychophysics 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
Stephen M. Echteler, PhD
Dept of Otorhinolaryngology: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of synapse
formation within the developing ear
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. Martha J. Farah, PhD Dept of
Psychology: Cognition-emotion interactions in the human brain; cognitive
development and brain function 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.
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 Dept of Animal Biology: Regulation of neuropeptide receptor gene expression and signal transduction in cultured neuronal cells and behaving animals Kevin Foskett, PhD Dept of Physiology: Molecular physiology of the inositol trisphosphate receptor calcium release channel and the cystic fibrosis chloride channel Marco Frank, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: The function of sleep in developing
and adult animals. Nigel W. Fraser, PhD
Dept of Microbiology: Mechanisms of Herpes Simplex Virus latency and
reactivation: application to gene transfer and cancer therapy
Mark I. Friedman, PhD
Monell Chemical Senses Center: Metabolic control of feeding behavior;
overeating and obesity
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 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 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 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
Phil Haydon, PhD The regulation of synaptic transmission. In particular we are interested in the reciprocal signaling between synapses and astrocytes that is mediated by the release of chemical transmitters and how astrocytes regulate synapse development and function. Joan C. Hendricks, PhD 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. 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 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 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: Development of neuromuscular specialization Daniel S. Kessler, PhD Vertebrate development; signal transduction; transcriptional regulation; primary germ layers; Spemann's organizer. 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 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
Patricia A. Labosky, PhD
Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology: Development of the mammalian
embryo, genes that control neuronal patterning, gastrulation and
neural crest specification.
Alan M. Laties, MD
Dept of Ophthalmology: Ocular anatomy and physiology; myopia
Ehud Lavi, MD
Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Neurovirology, the
interaction between viruses and the nervous system; HIV infection of
the brain; the pathogenesis of experimental models of virus induced
demyelination in mice; multiple sclerosis
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 acetylocholine receptors
from muscles and nerves; the autoimmune response to muscle nicotinic
receptors in myasthenia gravis; nicotine-induced upregulation of nicotinic
receptors 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
Minghong Ma, PhD Dept of Neuroscience:
Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the sense of smell (olfaction)
in mammals. Scott A. Mackler, MD, PhD Depts
of Medicine & Psychiatry: Molecular mechanisms of cocaine addiction
Tracy McIntosh, PhD Dept of
Neurosurgery: Molecular and cellular sequelae of central nervous system
injury; Cell death/survival pathways and DNA damage/repair mechanisms;
Neuroprotective treatments including gene therapy and stem cell transplantation.
Richard R. Miselis VMD, PhD
Dept of Animal Biology: Neuroanatomy; visceral neuraxis; ingestive behaviors;
homeostasis Adrian R. Morrison DVM, PhD
Dept of Animal Biology: Neural control of sleep and wakefulness 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 John Carl Oberholtzer, MD, PhD
Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Gene expression of auditory
hair cell ion channels; signal transduction in the auditory receptor
epithelium; differentiation and regeneration of hair cells in the cochlea
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 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: Cellular and molecular events in neural apoptosis and
polyglutamine repeat expansion neurodegenerative diseases. David E. Pleasure, MD
Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics: Molecular
studies of differentiation and death of neural cells
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 Jonathan A. Raper, PhD
Dept of Neuroscience: Developmental
neurobiology; growth cone guidance; cell recognition; cell motility; and
regeneration 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 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
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 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 systems. 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
David Solomon, MD, PhD Dept
of Neurology: Vestibular ocular motor neurophysiology, clinical neuro-otology,
kinematics and biomechanics of human gaze control, turning and circular
locomotion 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 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: Cytoskeletal protein abnormalities
in normal maturing, developing, aging, and neoplastic neurons 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 Hans P. A. Van Dongen, PhD
Dept of Psychiatry: Neurobehavioral performance; circadian and
seasonal rhythms; sleep structure and sleep regulation; sleep inertia;
microsleeps; morningness-eveningness; intra- and inter-individual
variability; unequally spaced time series; neurophysiological systems
analysis
Santosh S. Venkatesh, PhD
Dept of Electrical Engineering: Neural networks; statistical pattern
recognition; computational learning theory; information and complexity
theory
Yanyan Wang, PhD
Dept of Pharmacology: Synaptic plasticity in learning/memory and in
neurological/psychiatric diseases
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
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