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| Mustafa al'Absi | Psychobiology of stress, pain, nicotine addiction and risk for heart disease. |
| Bagrat Amirikian | Neural networks and motion. |
| Alfonso Araque | Regulation of synaptic function by astrocyte-neuron interactions. |
| Kristin Artinger | Genetic and epigenetic regulation of neural crest development |
| James Ashe | Neural control of action. |
| Karen Hsiao Ashe | Alzheimer's disease and aging: animal and cellular models. |
| Brady Atwood | Effects of opioids and alcohol on synaptic plasticity |
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| Alessandro Bartolomucci | Molecular mechanisms of obesity and stress-induced pathologies; VGF-derived peptides; Brown adipose tissue |
| Thomas Bastian | Nutritional and Metabolic regulation of brain development . |
| Martina Bazzaro | Regulation of cytoskeletal dynamics in neurons . |
| Mark Bee | Acoustic communicatioin, aggression, animal behavior, auditory perception, auditory neurophysiology, behavioral plasticity, social behavior. |
| Jeff Boissoneault | Neurophysiological and psychosocial mechanisms underling the bidirectional association between pain and substance use, especially alcohol. |
| David Bond | Bipolar disorder; magnetic resonance imaging; magnetic resonance spectroscopy; cardiovascular risk factors; inflammation; biomarkers; causal modelling |
| David Brown | Neuroregulation of host defense and microbial colonization at mucosal surfaces. |
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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. |
Zhe Chen
| Mechanisms of neural circuit formation |
| Kathryn Cullen | Depression, adolescence, self-injury, brain development, neural circuitry, neuroplasticity |
| Marija Cvetanovic | Astroglial pathology in neurodegeneration. |
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| David Darrow | Treat chronic pain, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, and mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and addiction. |
| Angeline Dukes | Foster a community at UMN that welcomes, supports, and empowers all students, but especially those with historically marginalized identities, both in and out of the classroom. |
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| Timothy Ebner | Neurophysiology of cerebellum and motor cortex. |
| Jed Elison | Infancy, brain development, autism, neurodevelopmental disorders, attention, social cognition |
| Stephen Engel | Human perception, visual plasticity, learning, and expertise; functional MRI. |
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| Damien Fair | Mechanisms and principles that underlie the developing brain |
| Carolyn Fairbanks | Glutamate-induced plasticity governing induction chronic pain as well as opioid-induced tolerance and addiction. |
S.H. Fatemi
| The biology of schizophrenia, autism, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. |
| Kurt Fraser | Associative learning, motivation, dopamine, acetylcholine, contextual control |
| 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. |
| Geoff Ghose | Neurophysiology of vision and cognition. |
| Rocio Gomez-Pastor | Protein aggregation and neuronal death in Huntington’s Disease |
| Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido | Target tracking, behavior, and visually guided predation in invertebrates |
| Andrew Grande | Primary research interest is the use of stem cells and stem cell biology for the treatment of stroke. |
| Steven Graves | Primary research interests include mechanisms of neurodegeneration and plasticity. |
| Nicola Grissom | Neurobiology and cognition in mouse models of neuropsychiatric disorders |
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H | |
| Arif Hamid | Dopamine, Reinforcement Learning, Agency Learning, Striatum, Cortex, Thalamus |
| Noam Harel | 7T MRI for neuromodulation applications |
| Andrew Harris | Behavioral pharmacology, animal models of drug addiction |
| Pierre-Gilles Henry | Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) |
| Alexander Herman | |
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I | |
| 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 . |
| Harald Junge | Neurovascular interactionsin normal and diseased retina, blood-CNS barriers, angiogenesis, and Wnt and Norrin signaling |
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K | |
| Peter Kang | Genetics of muscular dystrophy and Notch pathway in muscle disease |
| Madhu Kannan | Synergistic dynamics of targeted cell classes in cognitive function. |
| Prakash Kara | Mechanisms of sensory perception and neurovascular coupling in the mammalian brain |
| Kendrick Kay | Neuroimaging; computational modeling; low- and high-level vision; attention |
| Aaron Kerlin | Dendritic computations critical to learning |
| Daniel Kersten | Perception; computational vision; neural networks. |
| Suhasa Kodandaramaiah | Technologies for neural interfacing at multiple scales from single neurons to the whole brain. |
| Paulo Kofuji | Ion channels and sensory transduction |
| Juergen Konczak | Development of sensorimotor function; neurological movement disorders. |
| Michael Koob | Neurogenetics; animal models of dementia; molecular pathways in the AD pathogenic cascade |
| Catherine Kotz | Central nervous system regulation of energy balance. |
| Esther Krook-Magnuson | Interneurons and neuronal networks, epilepsy, essential tremor. |
| Sidney Kuo | Visual processing in the retina; synapses; glia |
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| Lorene Lanier | Developmental plasticity. |
| David Largaespada | Insertional mutagenesis and transgenesis for cancer gene discovery and analysis. |
| Anna Lee | Neuropharmacology of drug addiction and behavior. |
| Michael Lee | Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's (AD) and Parkinson's Disease (PD): Mechanisms and Therapies. |
| Emilia Lefevre | Understanding how adaptations in synaptic plasticity and neural circuitry can be modulated to restore behavior in rodent models of neuropsychiatric disorders. |
| Gordon Legge | Vision research, impaired vision. |
| Julia Lemos | Stress, motivation, neuropeptides, neural circuits, behavior |
| Sylvain Lesne | Molecular and cellular mechanisms triggered by aggregation-prone proteins in neurodegenerative disorders. |
| Danni Li | Biomarkers of aging, Alzheimer' disease, and exercise |
| 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. |
| Shmuel Lissek | Neurobiology of human anxiety focusing on conditioning markers of clinical anxiety. |
| Glenn Lobo | Neuro-Retinal Degenerative Diseases, Motor Proteins, Small Molecule Chaperones, Ciliopathies, Genetics of Usher Syndrome and Syndromic Retinitis Pigmentosa, CRISPR Zebrafish and Mouse models. |
| Walter Low | Neurodegenerative diseases, regenerative medicine, neural stem cell biology. |
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M | |
| Angus MacDonald | Cognitive control, paranoia, schizophrenia, cognitive affective and social neuroscience, behavioral genetics. |
| Colum MacKinnon | Neurophysiology and mechanics of movement preparation, initiation and execution in people with movement disorders. |
| Silvia Mangia | Functional MRI and functional MRS to study the human brain. |
| Mark Masino | Functional and structural organization of locomotor spinal circuits. |
| Linda McLoon | Eye movement disorders, muscle disease, muscle stem cells |
| Robert Meisel | Neurobiology of motivation and synaptic plasticity. |
| Paul Mermelstein | Synaptic plasticity; neuroendocrinology; gene expression. |
| Karen Mesce | Neural systems and neurodevelopment. |
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N | |
| Yashushi Nakagawa | Molecular mechanisms of mammalian forebrain development. |
| Thomas Naselaris | Cognitive computational neuroscience |
| Theoden Netoff | Epilepsy using brain slice models. |
| Eric Newman | Glial cell physiology; regulation of cerebral blood flow; diabetic retinopathy. |
| Jean-Paul Noel | Behavioral and cognitive approaches in humans with a systems neuroscience approach in rodents. |
| Duane Nykamp | Developing methods to model and simulate neural networks, and to characterize biological neural networks. |
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O | |
| 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. |
| Gulin Oz | High field magnetic resonance spectroscopy, biomarkers of neurodegeneration, cerebral glucose and glycogen metabolism in diabetes. |
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| Christina Pacak | We use iPSCs and mice to develop gene therapies and investigate disease mechanisms. |
| Jose Pardo | Brain imaging; cognitive neuroscience; systems neuroscience of mental disorders. |
| Hye Yoon Park | Dynamics of single mRNA molecules in live neurons in vivo |
| Ann Parr | Spinal cord injury, neural stem cells, oligodendrocytes, cell transplantation. |
| Giuseppe Pellizzer | Psychophysical and neurophysiological approaches to the production of movement. |
| Rita Perlingeiro | Neuromuscular disorders: regeneration and disease modeling |
| Philip Portoghese | Selective opioid ligands and opioid receptors. |
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R | |
| Raghu Rao | Regional brain development under typical and adverse conditions. |
| A. David Redish | Dynamics of neural representation from brains to behavior. |
| Jocelyn Richard | Neural signaling and circuits underlying motivation, affect and learning |
| Patrick Rothwell | Modulation of striatal circuits in health and disease. |
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S | |
| Uzma Samadani | Prevention, classification, and treatment of brain injury |
| Ben Saunders | Neural circuits of motivation |
| Michael-Paul Schallmo | Vision, schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders studied using EEG and functional MRI |
| Daniel Schmidt | Engineering proteins to map and control brain function. |
| Paul Schrater | Human and machine perception and action. |
| Audrey Sederberg | Theoretical models for the dynamics and function of neuronal networks |
| Francis Shen | Neurolaw, neuroethics, neuroscience and public policy. |
| Donald Simone | Neural mechanisms of pain sensation. |
| Gordon Smith | Development of large-scale cortical networks |
| Sade Spencer | Behavioral pharmacology of drug addiction and psychiatric comorbidities. |
| Scott Sponheim | Neural system abnormalities in psychopathology |
| Laura Stone | The mechanisms of pain, epigenetic regulation of chronic pain, and pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods of treatment. |
| Martha Streng | Cerebellar network dynamics in health and disease |
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| Brenden Tervo-Clemmens | Neuroimaging and computational studies of brain development and mental health |
| Stanley Thayer | Neuropharmacology of calcium signals that trigger synaptic transmission and neurodegeneration. |
| Mark Thomas | Neurobiology of drug-induced plasticity and addiction, behavioral neuroscience. |
| Phu Tran | Effects of early-life nutritional deficiency on neural development |
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U | |
| Kamil Ugurbil | Metabolic and functional imaging in the brain using magnetic resonance. |
| Anthony Umpierre | The role of microglia, inflammation, and calcium-dependent processes in post-injury epilepsy development |
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V | |
| Ganesh Vasan | Neuronal activity underlying behavior is encoded by distinct populations comprising a myriad of excitatory and inhibitory cell classes. |
| Andrew Venteicher | Identifying essential neurodevelopmental programs and new vulnerabilities in CNS tumors. |
| Sophia Vinogradov | Behavioral and neuroplastic effects of cognitive training in people with psychotic illnesses. |
| 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. |
| Lucy Vulchanova | Pain mechanisms, neuropathic pain, neuroimmunology, neuropeptides. |
| Helen Vuong | Microbiome and the gut-brain axis in neurodevelopment and neurological disorders. |
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| Trevor Wardill | Neural basis of visually driven invertebrate behavior. |
| Martin Wessendorf | Role of neuronal death in neuropathic pain. |
| Kevin Wickman | Mechanisms and relevance of inhibitory neurotransmission. |
| Alik Widge | Developing new medical devices and brain stimulation techniques to re-wire the circuits of mental illness. |
| George Wilcox | Research into the neurochemical mechanisms of chronic pain and synergistic analgesic interactions. |
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| Yi-Mei (Amy) Yang | Neurophysiology, synaptic transmission, developmental plasticity |
| Shauna Yuan | |
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| Anna Zilverstand | Neuroimaging and behavioral research in human drug addiction |
| Jan Zimmermann | Neural and behavioral decision dynamics |
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