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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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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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