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  • Behavioral and Cognitive
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By Focused Areas of Neuroscience Research

  • Addiction
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  • Neurobiology of Obesity
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  • Neuroinflammation and Neurovirology
  • Neuron-Glia Interactions
  • Schizophrenia
  • Sensory Systems and Perception
  • Synaptic Plasticity
  • Synaptogenesis and Circuit Formation

Motor Systems Members

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Motor Systems

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Faculty

Naiara Akizu, Ph.D.
Michael Granato, Ph.D.
Danielle S. Bassett
Konrad P Kording, PhD
Han-Chiao Isaac Chen, MD
Timothy A. Machado, PhD
Long Ding, Ph.D.
Michael P. Nusbaum, Ph.D
Yun Ding
Andrew G. Richardson, Ph.D.
Marc V Fuccillo, M.D., Ph.D.
Marc F. Schmidt
Joshua I. Gold, PhD
Christoph A. Thaiss, Ph.D.

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