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Faculty
NEUROSCIENCE
Matthew
Banks
Encoding of auditory information in auditory; effects
of general anesthetics
Michele Basso (Steering Committee Member)
Neural basis of cognition
Miles Epstein
Regulation of neuronal differentiation and
neurotransmitter phenotype
Rick Jenison
Computational neuroscience in sensory systems
Jeff Johnson
Genetic engineering for Alzheimer's Disease and
Parkinson's Disease; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Huntington's
Disease.
Stephen Johnson
Cellular mechanisms underlying respiratory rhythm
generation and plasticity
Mathew
Jones
Kinetics of GABA binding and GABAA receptor
gating; neural information encoding.
Joseph
Kemnitz
Nonhuman primate models; regulation of food intake and
energy expenditure; aging
Keith Kluender
Sensory and learning processes of speech perception
Lingjun
Li
Neuroproteomics; biological mass spectrometry
Joseph
Newman
Psychobiological processes affecting behavioral
self-regulation and pathological dysregulation
Luis Populin
Sensorimotor integration
Bradley
Postle
Functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial
magnetic stimulation to study cognition.
Clive
Svendsen
Biology of neural stem cells: fate choices in vitro
and repair following transplantation
Daniel Uhlrich
Neural modulation of visual signals in the thalamus;
photosensitive epilepsy
Peter Van Kan (Steering Committee Member)
Neural control of reaching to grasp in awake behaving
primates
Tom
Yin (Co-director, Principal Investigator)
Sensorimotor transformations in the mammalian central
nervous system.
Su-Chun Zhang
Embryonic stem cells; neural differentiation
CLINICAL
Benjamin Brooks
Neuromuscular and demyelinating diseases
Victor
Haughton
Cerebrospinal fluid through the foramen magnum in
patients; cysts in the spinal cord
Bruce
Hermann
Neuropsychology of epilepsy and preclinical Alzheimer's
disease
David Hsu
MRI techniques to study brain structure in children
with developmental disabilities; physico-mathematical models of brain
dynamics.
Paul
L. Kaufman
Primate ocular accommodation; ocular fluid drainage;
optic neuropathy
Barbara
Klein
Determining cataract, macular degeneration, diabetic
retinopathy, optic nerve problems from images
Garet Lahvis
Vascular development in the central nervous system
Ruth Litovsky
Binaural hearing and speech
Erwin Montgomery Jr. (Steering Committee Member)
Movement disorders and motor physiology
Robert
Pearce
Hippocampal oscillations and memory; studies of
gene-targeted animals
Joanne
Robbins (Steering Committee Member)
Enhancing function of the bulbar innervated musculature
with particular interest in swallowing and speech outcomes.
Paul Rutecki
Epilepsy and EEG signal analysis.
Dandan Sun
Molecular mechanisms underlying ischemic brain damage
Guilio Tononi
Neural basis of consciousness; functions of sleep
PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING
Andy Alexander
Quantitative MRI methods for investigating brain
structure and function of the healthy and diseased CNS
Amir Assadi
Neuroimaging (MEG, EEG, fMRI); learning theory and
models of biological intelligence
David Beebe
Engineered microenvironments
Walter Block
Diagnostic, functional, and interventional MRI
neuroimaging methodology
Bradley
Christian
Developing and translating novel positron emission
tomography (PET) methodologies
Aaron
S. Field
Quantitative MR imaging of myelin disease and repair in
the CNS
Michael Gleicher
Pictures, video, visualizations, animation, and virtual
environments
Beth Meyerand (Co-director)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods to aid in the
understanding of brain function in different disease states.
William Murphy
Tissue engineering, drug delivery and gene therapy
Robert Radwin (Steering Committee Member)
Quantification of human performance; design of
human-machine interfaces for functional augmentation and rehabilitation.
Eric Shusta
Role of astrocytes, neurons and neural stem cells in
formation and maintenance of the blood-brain barrier and consequences
for brain drug delivery
Darryl Thelen
Biomechanics; motor control; locomotion
Tomy Varghese
Ultrasound elastography or strain imaging for detecting
and classifying vulnerable plaque
John Webster
Medical instrumentation and bioelectrodes
Justin Williams (Steering Committee Member)
Engineering interfaces with the nervous system for
diagnosis, discovery and treatment of neurological disease and
disorders.
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