Intro : Home : Research: Faculty (Interest) Faculty (By Department) By Area     Faculty Research Interests   Faculty Member, Department Research Summary Richard Abrams Psychology Visual attention and movement mechanisms C. Joseph Ackerman Chemistry Biophysical determinants of the CNS magnetic resonance signal C. Robert Almli Occupational Therapy Neural-behavioral interactions in development and injury Charles Anderson Anatomy & Neurobiology Modeling neuronal systems; information processing Dora Angelaki Anatomy & Neurobiology Motion perception and spatial orientation Nancy Baenziger Anatomy & Neurobiology Regulation of receptor systems in Alzheimer's disease David Balota Psychology Cognitive breakdowns in senile dementia in Alzheimer's Dennis Barbour Biomedical Engineering Sensory neocortex circuitry Deanna Barch Psychology Cognition, emotion & brain function Randall Bateman Neurology In vivo metabolism of Abeta in Alzheimer's disease Kevin Black Psychiatry Psychiatric movement disorders Ken Blumer Cell Biology & Physiology Signal transduction in cardiovascular, nervous and visual systems Barbara Bohne Otolaryngology Anatomy, physiology and pathology of the inner ear Walter Boyle Anesthesiology Modulation of smooth muscle contraction Todd Braver Psychology Cognitive control, prefrontal cortex, neuroimaging Paul Bridgman Anatomy & Neurobiology Cell biology of developing nerve and muscle cells. Guojun Bu Pediatrics Alzheimer's disease, ApoE, APP, Abeta, LRP, endocytosis, receptor sorting Virginia Buckles Neurology Aging and dementing diseases Andreas Burkhalter Anatomy & Neurobiology Structure and function of cortical circuits Harold Burton Anatomy & Neurobiology Adaptive plasticity in blindness Valeria Cavalli Anatomy & Neurobiology Axonal transport and nerve regeneration Zhou-Feng Chen Anesthesiology Pain modulation; molecular mechanisms of dorsal spinal cord development Shiming Chen Ophthalmology Development and maintenance of rod and cone photoreceptor cells John Clark Physics Properties of biological and artificial neural networks David Clifford Neurology Epilepsy, Parkinson's and other neurologic disease Anne Connolly Neurology Inherited and acquired neurologic disease in children John Constantino Neurology Longitudinal genetic studies of social development Maurizio Corbetta Neurology Neural basis of cognition in vision and attention Joseph Corbo Pathology Photoreceptor transcriptional networks Douglas Covey Molecular Biology & Pharmacology Medicinal chemistry of steroids Anne Cross Neurology Pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis Michael Crowder Anesthesiology Hypoxia-induced cell death, anesthetic mechanisms John Csernansky Psychiatry Neurobiology of neuropsychiatric disease Ralph Dacey Neurosurgery Cellular physiology of cerebral microvasculature Colin Derdeyn Radiology Cerebrovascular disease, hemodynamics, stroke Aaron DiAntonio Molecular Biology & Pharmacology Genetic analysis of synapse formation, growth, and plasticity J. David Dickman Anatomy & Neurobiology Neural mechanisms underlying motion detection and spatial orientation Alex Dromerick Neurology Recovery of function after acquired brain injury Gammon Earhart Physical Therapy Parkinson's; control of locomotion, sensorimotor adaptation Alex Evers Anesthesiology Molecular mechanisms through which anesthetics act to depress nervous system function Nuri Farber Psychiatry Neurodegeneration, neurotoxicity, apoptosis schizophrenia, fetal alcohol syndrome, mental retardation Stanley Finger Psychology History of Neuroscience Simon Fisher Medicine Nutritional and hormonal brain signaling in pathogenesis of obesity, diabetes James Galvin Neurology Alzheimer's disease and dementia N. Gautam Anesthesiology Visualizing signaling in living cells Robert Gereau Anesthesiology Cellular and molecular mechanisms of pain Jeffrey Gidday Neurosurgery Vascular and neuronal protection against CNS injury Jonathan Gitlin Pediatrics Copper metabolism and human disease Vladimir Kefalov Ophthalmology Physiology of photoreceptors Robyn Klein Medicine Regulation of neuroinformation Raphael Kopan Molecular Biology & Pharmacology Cell fate determination in mammalian system with focus on Notch mediated signal transduction. Paul Kotzbauer Neurology Parkinson's disease and related disorders Kristin Kroll Molecular Biology & Pharmacology Neurogenesis in vertebrate embryos David Leib Ophthalmology Herpes simplex latency and neurovirulence Maurine Linder Cell Biology & Physiology Regulation of protein location by palmitoylation Chris Lingle, Anesthesiology Ion channel structure and function Peter Lukasiewicz Ophthalmology Synaptic   Function;   Retinal Physiology Steven Mennerick Psychiatry Glutamate and GABA synaptic transmission Jeffrey Milbrandt Pathology Neuropathy and neurodegenerative disease Stanley Misler Medicine Stimulus-secretion coupling in endocrine cells and neurons Stephen Moerlein Radiology Physiology & pathophysiology using radiopharmaceutical probes Daniel Moran Biomedical Engineering Voluntary motor control John Morris Neurology Alzheimer's disease and neurodegenerative disorders Louis Muglia Pediatrics Neural basis of the stress response Jeff Neil Neurology Image analysis Jeanne Nerbonne Molecular Biology & Pharmacology Molecular basis of voltage-gated K+ channel diversity and functioning John Newcomer Psychiatry Neurochemical regulators of memory performance Colin Nichols Cell Biology & Physiology Molecular regulation and physiological role of potassium channels Bruce Nock Psychiatry Opiate abuse and stress Michael Nonet Anatomy & Neurobiology Synaptic development Karen O'Malley Anatomy & Neurobiology Specification, regulation, and neurodegeneration of dopaminergic and glutamatergic system John Olney Psychiatry Excitatory transmitters in nervous system disease David Ornitz Molecular Biology & Pharmacology Role of intracellular FGFs in neuronal activation T.S. Park Neurosurgery Neutrophil-mediated ischemic brain injury. Joel Perlmutter Neurology Basal ganglia in movement disorders Steven Petersen Neurology fMRI studies of attention, language, learning and memory William Powers Neurology Oxygen and glucose delivery in the human brain Joseph Price Anatomy & Neurobiology Neuroanatomy of prefrontal and temporal cortex Marcus Raichle Radiology PET and fMRI for in vivo study in the central nervous system Henry Roediger Psychology Learning and memory in humans Naren Ramanan Anatomy & Neurobiology Transcriptional control of synaptic plasticity Keith Rich Neurosurgery Apoptosis in human brain tumors Eugene Rubin Psychiatry Psychopathology of dementia in Alzheimer's Joshua Rubin Pediatrics Basis of CXCL12 actions in development and cancer Lawrence Salkoff Anatomy & Neurobiology Ion channel function in physiology and behavior Bradley Schlaggar Neurology Differences in patterns of brain activation using fMRI Robert Schmidt Pathology Autonomic neuropathy Alan Schwartz, Pediatrics Molecular biology of cell surface receptor structure and function Paul Shaw Anatomy & Neurobiology Molecular pathways relevant to sleep Yvette Sheline Psychiatry Characterizing limbic structures using MRI and PET Dwayne Simmons Otolaryngology Mechanisms of synaptogenesis in the inner ear Lawrence Snyder Anatomy & Neurobiology Transforming sensory signals into motor plans Mitchell Sommers Psychology Hearing and speech perception in Alzheimer's Paul Stein Biology Sensorimotor integration in the turtle spinal cord Joe Henry Steinbach Anesthesiology Function and regulation of transmitter-gated membrane channels Martha Storandt Psychology Clinical psychology of aging Gina Story Anesthesiology Molecular basis of detection of pain stimuli Nobuo Suga Biology Auditory system of the bat Paul Taghert Anatomy & Neurobiology Circadian physiology and neuronal development W. Thomas Thach Anatomy & Neurobiology Neural control of posture and movement Liu Lin Thio Neurology Cortical inhibitory glycine receptor (GlyR) and the ketogenic diet in epilepsy Kurt Thoroughman Biomedical Engineering Psychophysical and computational investigation of human motor control and learning Richard Todd Psychiatry Behavior, epidemiology, genetics in psychiatric disorders Lawrence Tychsen Ophthalmology Development of binocular vision and eye movements in primates. David Van Essen Anatomy & Neurobiology Information processing in mammalian cerebral cortex Russell Van Gelder Ophthalmology Mechanisms of non-visual photoreception Tom Videen Neurology Brain injury and disease using PET, MRI and CT Mark Warchol Otolaryngology Sensory development and regeneration Ralf Wessel Biology Synaptic, dendritic, and circuit mechanisms in signal-processing Desiree White Psychology Prefrontal brain damage in learning and memory Robert Wilkinson Cell Biology & Physiology Determinants of synaptic strength Michael Wong Neurology Pathophysiology of epilepsy Thomas Woolsey Neurosurgery CNS structure, function, development and disease Dmitriy Yablonskiy Radiology Development of new MRI techniques for quantitation of biological tissue structure and functioning Kelvin Yamada Neurology Synaptic transmission at central nervous system synapses Jeff Zacks Psychology Higher perception and cognition Charles Zorumski Psychiatry Modulation of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission.