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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 communication, animal behavior, auditory perception, behavioral plasticity.

Alvin Beitz
Pain Mechanisms, Multiple Sclerosis, Acupuncture, Cancer Pain, Gender and Pain.
Dale Branton
Molecular basis of synaptic transmission.

David Brown

Enteric nervous system and mucosal host defense.

Dwight Burkhardt
Neurophysiology of the retinal and visual psychophysics.
Frank Burton
Translational Research on Tourette's Syndrome, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Trichotillomania.
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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.
Bianca Conti-Fine
Membranes and receptors.
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Richard Di Fabio
Saccade-stepping interactions, obstacle avoidance behaviors in humans, motor behavior.
Janet Dubinsky
Mechanisms of neuronal degeneration following toxicity or injury.  Metabolic contributions to neurodegeneration.  Huntington's Disease.
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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; receptor coupling to second messengers; aging; Alzheimer’s disease; nitric oxide.
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 Nociceptive tranmission in the spinal cord, thalamus and cortex.
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 Functional Neuroimaging; Computational Neuroscience; Neurointerfacing.
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.
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William Kennedy
Quantitative methods for early detection of neuropathy.
Daniel Kersten
Perception; computational vision; neural networks.
Paulo Kofuji
Structure and function of ion channels.
Juergen Konczak
Development of sensorimotor function; neurological movement disorders.
Michael Koob
Neurogenetics; animal models of ataxia; RNA sense/antisense gene regulation.
Catherine Kotz
Brain regulation of feeding behavior and energy expenditure.
Naoko Koyano Gene regulation during neurogenesis.
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Lorene Lanier
Axon guidance growth cone motility.
David Largaespada Insertional mutagenesis and transgenesis for cancer gene discovery and analysis.
Alice Larson Neuroimmunologic regulation of Pain and Stress.
Gordon Legge
Vision and visual perception.
Paul Letourneau
Mechanisms of neuronal motility and nerve growth cone guidance.
Arthur C Leuthold Magnetoencephalography methods and basic systems neuroscience.
Allen Levine
Energy intake and energy expenditure.
Scott Lewis
Magnetic resonance imaging of motor control and cognition.
Dezhi Liao
Opioid modulation of dendritic spines.
Kelvin O. Lim
The study of white matter and its involvement in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders.
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

Kirill Martemyanov

Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neuronal G Protein Signaling
Mark Masino Functional Organization of Spinal Circuits.
Linda McLoon
Muscle diseases and regeneration.
Steven McLoon
Nervous system development and repair.
Robert Meisel Neurobiology of Motivation.
Paul Mermelstein
Activity-dependent gene expression and neuronal plasticity.
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 NeuralNetoff lab studies epilepsy in brain slice models.
Eric Newman
Glia-neuron interactions in the retina.
Teresa Nick Neural mechanisms of vocal learning.
Duane Nykamp Developing methods to model and simulate neural networks, and to characterize biological neural networks.
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Michael O'Connor
Role of TGF-Beta type factors in modulating synaptic development in Drosophila.
John Ohlfest Develop new therapies for the treatment of malignant and degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.
Cheryl Olman Biological basis of BOLD fMRI; early visual processing.
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
Psychobiology of conditioning and learning.
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Jose Pardo
Brain imaging; cognitive neuroscience.
Giuseppe Pellizzer
Psychophysical and neurophysiological approaches to the production of movement.
Philip Portoghese
Design, synthesis, and use of selective ligands as tools to probe opioid receptors.
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Laura Ranum
Molecular changes that cause neuronal death in patients with dominantly inherited ataxia.
Raghu Rao
Regional brain development under typical and adverse conditions.
A. David Redish
The dynamics of neural representation: from brains to behavior.
Steve Rothman Neurobiology and therapy of medically intractable epilepsy.
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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.
Jonathan Slack Transdifferentiation of cells and regeneration of the nervous system and muscle.
John Soechting
Motor control neurophysiology.
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 biophysics of muscle and membranes.
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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V

 
Govind Vatassery
Impact of oxidative stress and antioxidants on brain function.
Neal Viemeister
Behavioral, biological, and theoretical aspects of auditory perception.
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Martin Wessendorf
Pain, drug abuse, opiates, opioids, spinal cord, brain stem, endomorphin, serotonin, fluorescence microscopy, confocal microscopy.
Kevin Wickman
Neuronal and cardiac G-protein–gated potassium (KG) channels.
George Wilcox
Psychotherapeutic toxicity; pain transmission; drugs of abuse.
W. Gibson Wood Regulation and function of cholesterol in neurodegenerative diseases with an emphasis on Alzheimer's disease.
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LiLian Yuan Intrinsic and Synaptic plasticity of hippocampus and mPFC.
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Lance Zirpel
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neuronal survival and development of calcium homeostasis.
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