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Mustafa al'Absi	Psychobiology of stress, pain, nicotine addiction and risk for heart disease.
Bagrat Amirikian	Neural networks and motion.
John Anderson	Neurophysiology of ocular and vestibular function.
James Ashe	Neural control of action.
Karen Hsiao Ashe	Alzheimer's disease and aging: animal and cellular models.
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Mark Bee	Acoustic communicatioin, aggression, animal behavior, auditory perception, auditory neurophysiology, behavioral plasticity, social behavior.
Alvin Beitz	Pain Mechanisms, Multiple Sclerosis, Acupuncture, Cancer Pain, Gender and Pain.
Dale Branton	Molecular basis of synaptic transmission.
David Brown	Neuroregulation of host defense and microbial colonization at mucosal surfaces.
Dwight Burkhardt	Neurophysiology of the retinal and visual psychophysics.
Frank Burton	Transgenic modeling of compulsive & tic disorders.
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Marilyn Carroll	Behavioral pharmacology and drug dependence:Animal models.
Matthew Chafee	Neural basis of spatial cognition and working memory, cortical system dysfunction in psychiatric disease.
Lihsia Chen	Adhesion; cytoskeleton; neuronal migration; synapse formation.
H. Brent Clark	Experimental neuropathology, cerebellar ataxia and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Marija Cvetanovic	Astroglial pathology in neurodegeneration.
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Janet Dubinsky	Mechanisms of neuronal degeneration following toxicity or injury.  Metabolic contributions to neurodegeneration.  Huntington's Disease.
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Karen Echeverri	Spinal Cord injury repair, axonal regrowth.
Timothy Ebner	Neurophysiology of cerebellum and motor cortex.
Robert Elde	Central and peripheral nervous systems.
William Elmquist	Impact of drug transporters on drug delivery to the CNS.
Esam El-Fakahany	Receptor regulation, signal transduction and allosteric modulation.
Stephen Engel	Human perception, visual plasticity, learning, and expertise; functional MRI.
William Engeland	Neuroendocrinology of stress.
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Carolyn Fairbanks	Glutamate-induced plasticity governing induction chronic pain as well as opioid-induced tolerance and addiction.
Patricia Faris	Neuropeptides: anatomy and behavior.
S. Hossein Fatemi	The biology of schizophrenia, autism, and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Janet Fitzakerley	Properties of potassium channels expressed by cochlear nucleus neurons during development.
Martha Flanders	Neural control of movement.
Jurgen Fohlmeister	Modeling excitation in retinal ganglion cells.
William Frey II	Intranasal delivery: bypassing the blood-brain barrier to treat Alzheimer's disease.
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Laura Gammill	Molecular regulation of neural crest formation, migration and guidance.
Michael Georgieff	Iron deficiency and the developing hippocampus.
Apostolos Georgopoulos	Neurophysiology of motor control and cognition.
Jonathan Gewirtz	Neurobiology of negative affect: Memory, fear, anxiety, and drug dependence.
Geoff Ghose	Neurophysiology of vision and cognition.
Glenn Giesler	Transmission of information related to itch and pain within the spinal cord and brain.
Pankaj Gupta	Structural and functional features of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in the context of cytokine and morphogen signaling in various types of stem cells.
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Boyd Hartman	Anatomy and function of neurotransmitter systems.
Bin He	Neural interfacing, neuroimaging, neuromodulation, epilepsy, motor control and pain.
Sheng He	Human vision and attention; visual awareness; cognitive neuroscience.
Christopher Honda	Peripheral mechanisms of nociception and analgesia.
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William G. Iacono	Psychophysiology of mental disorders.
Paul Iaizzo	Translational systems physiology research ranging from cellular and tissue studies to organ and whole body investigations.
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Matthew Johnson	Developing neuromodulation technologies for treating neurological disorders .
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William Kennedy	Medical devices, peripheral, autonomic, neuropathy, gastrointestinal, quantification, immunostain, confocal microscopy and QST.
Daniel Kersten	Perception; computational vision; neural networks.
Paulo Kofuji	Ion channels and Sensory Transduction
Juergen Konczak	Development of sensorimotor function; neurological movement disorders.
Michael Koob	Neurogenetics; animal models of ataxia; RNA sense/antisense gene regulation.
Catherine Kotz	Central nervous system regulation of energy balance.
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Lorene Lanier	Cytoskeletal mechanisms of growth cone motility and synaptic plasticity.
David Largaespada	Insertional mutagenesis and transgenesis for cancer gene discovery and analysis.
Alice Larson	Pain, stress, hormones, mast cells, fibromyalgia, brown adipose.
Michael Lee	Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's (AD) and Parkinson's Disease (PD): Mechanisms and Therapies.
Gordon Legge	Vision research, impaired vision.
Sylvain Lesne	Molecular and cellular mechanisms triggered by aggregation-prone proteins in neurodegenerative disorders.
Paul Letourneau	Mechanisms of neuronal motility and nerve growth cone guidance.
Arthur Leuthold	Magnetoencephalography methods and basic systems neuroscience.
Allen Levine	Energy intake and energy expenditure.
Scott Lewis	Magnetic resonance imaging of motor control and cognition.
Ling Li	Connections between Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and atherosclerosis: Pathogenesis and Therapeutics.
Dezhi Liao	Opioid modulation of dendritic spines.
Hubert Lim	Neural prostheses, auditory neuroscience, neural plasticity.
Kelvin Lim	The study of white matter and its involvement in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders.
Wensheng Lin	Unfolded Protein Response in Neurological Diseases.
Shmuel Lissek	Neurobiology of human anxiety focusing on conditioning markers of clinical anxiety.
Walter Low	Neurological and neurodegenerative disorders.
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Angus MacDonald	Cognitive control, paranoia, schizophrenia, cognitive affective and social neuroscience, behavioral and molecular genetics.
Colum MacKinnon	Mechanisms of Movement Facilitation and Release by Cueing in Parkinson's disease.
Mark Masino	Functional and Structural Organization of Locomotor Spinal Circuits.
Linda McLoon	Eye movement disorders, muscle disease, muscle stem cells
Steven McLoon	Nervous system development and repair.
Robert Meisel	Neurobiology of motivation and synaptic plasticity.
Paul Mermelstein	Synaptic plasticity; neuroendocrinology; gene expression.
Karen Mesce	Neural systems and neurodevelopment.
Joseph Metzger	Genetic engineering of muscle cells.
Robert Miller	Physiological mechanisms and neurocircuitry of the vertebrate retina.
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Yashushi Nakagawa	Molecular mechanisms of mammalian forebrain development.
Theoden Netoff	Netoff lab studies epilepsy in brain slice models.
Eric Newman	Glial cell physiology; regulation of cerebral blood flow; diabetic retinopathy.
Teresa Nick	Control of neural and behavioral plasticity.
Duane Nykamp	Developing methods to model and simulate neural networks, and to characterize biological neural networks.
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Michael O'Connor	Neuroendocrine signaling; Signaling at the Neuromuscular junction.
Cheryl Olman	Biological basis of functional magnetic resonance imaging; modulation of low level visual responses by scene perception.
Harry Orr	Molecular genetics of cerebellar function/dysfunction with an emphasis on polyglutamine neurodegenerative disease.
John Osborn	Autonomic regulation of the circulation.
J. Bruce Overmier	Choice behavior, Pavlovian learning, memory, stress, alcohol, ulcer.
Gulin Oz	High field magnetic resonance spectroscopy, biomarkers of neurodegeneration, cerebral glucose and glycogen metabolism in diabetes.
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Jose Pardo	Brain imaging; cognitive neuroscience; systems neuroscience of mental disorders.
Ann Parr	Spinal cord injury, neural stem cells, oligodendrocytes, cell transplantation .
Giuseppe Pellizzer	Psychophysical and neurophysiological approaches to the production of movement.
Philip Portoghese	Selective opioid ligands and opioid receptors.
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Raghu Rao	Regional brain development under typical and adverse conditions.
A. David Redish	The dynamics of neural representation: from brains to behavior.
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Peter Santi	Functional anatomy of the inner ear.
Ronald Sawchuk	Neuropharmaceutics and brain drug delivery.
Paul Schrater	Human and machine perception and action.
Virginia Seybold	Neurochemistry of pain, cancer pain, cannabinoids and pain.
Donald Simone	Neural mechanisms of pain sensation.
Peter Sorensen	Neural and endocrine bases of chemoreception, especially in fish.
Thomas Stoffregen	Perception-action, postural control, motion sickness.
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Stanley Thayer	Neuropharmacology of calcium signals that trigger synaptic transmission and neurodegeneration.
David Thomas	Molecular mechanisms of muscle protein dynamics, function, disease, and therapy.
Mark Thomas	Neurobiology of drug-induced plasticity and addiction, behavioral neuroscience.
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Kamil Ugurbil	Metabolic and functional imaging in the brain using magnetic resonance.
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Neal Viemeister	Behavioral, biological, and theoretical aspects of auditory perception.
Jerrold Vitek	Medical and surgical treatment of movement disorders including Parkinson's disease, dystonia and tremor; application of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the treatment of neurological disease.
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Martin Wessendorf	Role of neuronal death in neuropathic pain.
Kevin Wickman	Mechanisms and relevance of inhibitory neurotransmission.
George Wilcox	Research into the neurochemical mechanisms of chronic pain and synergistic analgesic interactions.
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LiLian Yuan	Intrinsic and Synaptic plasticity of hippocampus and mPFC.
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