Faculty & Research

Faculty research interests are broken into six broad categories:

• Excitatory Amino Acids
• Receptors, Second Messengers and Signal Transduction
• Development, Neurotrophic Factors, Regeneration,
  and Recovery of Function after Injury
• Neuroimmunology
• Clinical Neuroscience / CNS disorders
• Cognitive / Computational Neuroscience / Neural Networks

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See an alphabetical listing of the faculty.

Kenneth Dretchen

Rapid detection of chemical and biological threat agents.
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Karen Gale

Focally evoked seizures.
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Richard Gillis

CNS control of respiration and cardiovascular systems.
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Alexei Kondratyev

Neurotrophic factors; excitatory amino acids.
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Ludise Malkova

Neurobiological substrates of learning and memory studied by pharmacological manipulations in nonhuman primates.
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Joseph Neale

N-acetyl-aspartyl-glutamate (NAAG).
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Stefano Vicini

Long-term potentiation and synaptic plasticity.   Member of the Cortical Neurophysiology Focus Group.
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Barry Wolfe

Development of antibodies to glutamate receptor subtypes.
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Robert Yasuda

Understanding the effects of chronic and prenatal ethanol exposure on the glutamate NMDA receptor subunit complex and metabotropic receptors in the CNS.
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Jean Wrathall

Delayed injury after spinal cord trauma.
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Barbara Wroblewska

Role of group II metabotropic glutamate receptors (mainly mGluR3) in physiology and pathology of neurotransmission.
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Jarda Wroblewski

Metabotropic glutamate receptors.
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Gerard Ahern

Ion channels in pain transmission and immunity.
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Molly Huntsman

Functional properties of inhibitory connections in the cerebral cortex.   Member of the Cortical Neurophysiology Focus Group.
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Kenneth Kellar

Neuropharmacology of nicotinic and monoaminergic receptors in the brain.
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Martin Morad

Calcium signaling and regulation of neurotransmitter release.
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Joseph Neale

Control of GABA receptor expression.
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Kathryn Sandberg

The molecular basis of ligand recognition, receptor activation and inactivation and mechanisms of receptor regulation of the angiotensin II receptor as a model for peptide hormone receptors.
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Thomas Sherman

Neuroendocrine regulation of hypothalamic-vasopressin and oxytocin gene expression.
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Anita Sidhu

Dopamine receptors and second messengers.
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Stefano Vicini

GABA and glutamate receptor subtypes in synaptic transmission.   Member of the Cortical Neurophysiology Focus Group.
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Barry Wolfe

Muscarinic and glutamatergic receptor subtypes.
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Jarda Wroblewski

Glutamate receptors and their multiple intracellular signals.
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Baoji Xu

Receptor tyrosine kinases: signaling cascades and their functions in neurons. 
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Robert Yasuda

Understanding the effects of chronic and prenatal ethanol exposure on the glutamate NMDA receptor subunit complex and metabotropic receptors in the CNS.
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Zofia Zukowska

Neuropeptide Y receptor expression; regulation by catecholamines and sex hormones; neuropeptides and monoamines in the peripheral control of cardiovascular function.
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Barbara Bregman

Developmental plasticity, neural transplantation, neurotrophic factors, and recovery of function after spinal cord injury; brainstem control of spinal cord function. 
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Elena Casey

Neural induction and differentiation
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Maria Donoghue

Molecular Basis of Cerebral Cortical Development
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Alan Faden

Chemical pathobiology of CNS injury.
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Rhonda Friedman

Aphasia and alexia, neuropsychology of language.
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Karen Gale

Seizure-evoked changes in brain neurotrophic factors.
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Alexei Kondratyev

Neurotrophic factors;excitatory amino acids.
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Lawrence Kromer

Neural transplantation and neurotrophic factors and their receptors.
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Seung T. Lim

Cell adhesion molecules in synapse formation.
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Italo Mocchetti

Regulation of neurotrophic factor expression in the CNS.
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Daniel Pak

Structural and functional aspects of excitatory neurons
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Josef Rauschecker

Cortical plasticity and reorganization after injury or deprivation.   Member of the Cortical Neurophysiology Focus Group.
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Jean Wrathall

Cellular and chemical factors influencing spinal cord injury and recovery of function.
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Baoji Xu

Regulation of brain development by neurotrophins;  Local protein synthesis in dendrites and synaptic plasticity.
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Barbara Bayer

CNS control of immune cell function; opiate-sensitive circuits in midbrain and brainstem.
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Rhonda Friedman

Aphasia and alexia, neuropsychology of language.
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Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss

Molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and therapeutic approaches.
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Yasuji Matsuoka

Development and mechanism of Alzheimer's disease therapeutic approaches.
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Timothy Mhyre

Peripheral biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases.
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Gholam Motamedi

Clinical studies and animal models of epilepsy.
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Joseph Neale

NAAG/mGluR3 in pain perception, stroke, neurodegenerative disorders and
schizophrenia.
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Prosper N'Gouemo

Ion channels, epileptogenesis and epilepsy.
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Vicente Notario

Oncogenes and molecular biology of growth
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G. William Rebeck

Molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease.
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Barbara Schwartz

Cognitive neuropsychiatry and psychopharmacology in patients with Schizophrenia and patients with Alzheimer's Disease.
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Anita Sidhu

Molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases [Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease], depression and synaptic regulation of monoamine neurotransmitters.
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Yuichiro Justin Suzuki

(1) Mechanisms of redox signaling; (2) Relations between nervous systems and pulmonary hypertension
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Anton Wellstein

Angiogenesis factors released from tumor cells as molecularly defined targets for tumor therapy.
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Baoji Xu

Defects in neurotrophin signaling and their roles in the pathogenesis of mental retardation, neurodegerative diseases, and obesity.
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Robert Yasuda

Understanding the effects of chronic and prenatal ethanol exposure on the glutamate NMDA receptor subunit complex and metabotropic receptors in the CNS.
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Rhonda Dzakpasu

Spatiotemporal patterning in neural networks, modeling, multielectrode arrays, fluorescence microscopy
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Guinevere Eden

Developmental dyslexia; functional neuroimaging.
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Rhonda Friedman

Functional imaging of language processes.
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Karen Gale

Limbic system and basal ganglia circuits involved in epilepsy, learning and memory.
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James Gnadt

Neural basis of behavior and perception.
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Darlene Howard

Implicit learning and memory; cognitive changes during normal aging.
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Molly Huntsman

Functional properties of inhibitory connections in the cerebral cortex.   Member of the Cortical Neurophysiology Focus Group.
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Jagmeet Kanwal

Communication processing in bats; speech and music perception; hemispheric asymmetry.  Member of the Cortical Neurophysiology Focus Group.
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Ludise Malkova

Neurobiological substrates of learning and memory studied by pharmacological manipulations in nonhuman primates.
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Josef Rauschecker

Neuronal networks in auditory, somatosensory, and visual cortex.   Member of the Cortical Neurophysiology Focus Group.
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Maximilian Riesenhuber

Computational modeling, psychophysics and fMRI of the neural bases of high level vision,  object recognition, object representation, and attention.
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Barbara Schwartz

Learning and memory in patients with Schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease.
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Michael Ullman

Neural substrates of syntax and semantics in language.
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Jeffrey Urbach

Axon motility and guidance; Live cell imaging; Neuronal biosensors
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Chandan Vaidya

Functional neuroimaging of the development of executive control and memory
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Joseph Verbalis

Brainstem and hypothalamic circuitry in neuroendocrine regulation.
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Stefano Vicini

Hippocampal circuits and cellular mechanisms of learning.   Member of the Cortical Neurophysiology Focus Group.
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Jian-Young Wu

Optical imaging of dynamic activity of local neural assemblies; oscillatory patterns and seizure generation in cortical circuits.   Member of the Cortical Neurophysiology Focus Group.
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