studies sex differences and hormonal regulation of neural circuit activity underlying environmental context-reward associations in substance use disorders
All in Assistant Professor
studies sex differences and hormonal regulation of neural circuit activity underlying environmental context-reward associations in substance use disorders
studies the neural underpinnings of the sense of self-motion and orientation in space.
studies neuro-immune interactions and the neural circuits underlying sickness symptoms.
studies how the human brain allows us to flexibly adapt to new experiences, learn new information and form long-lasting memories
studies how early-life exercise can influence the development of cognitive functions
studies cortical and cerebellar mechanisms underlying predictive processing using electrophysiological and optical methods in awake behaving mice.
studies how speech sounds are represented in the brain using intracranial recordings from epilepsy patients and scalp EEG.
studies how glial cells regulate homeostatic plasticity, and uses transcriptomic and electrophysiological techniques to study how their functions change in disease states.
develops and applies new tools to study neurochemical signaling in learning and disease.
studies how the brain makes predictions and adapts to novel or uncertain environments, and how these mechanism are altered by mental illness
studies social recognition and social decision making, and how social and non-social rewards are differentially encoded in the brain.
studies the inhibitory/excitatory changes of the neuronal circuits involved in the pathophysiology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia
Dr. Cláudia Almeida studies how neuronal trafficking dysfunction underlies synapse loss during aging and Alzheimer's disease.
studies the epigenetic and molecular basis of long-term memory, particularly how these mechanisms are altered in the aging brain and how epigenetic regulation of circadian genes might contribute to age-related memory decline.
studies the role of RNA splicing in synaptic plasticity
studies the neurobiology of aging, senescence, and death
studies the neural mechanisms of how social interactions influence fear and avoidance behaviors
studies cerebellar influence on neural development and social and cognitive behaviors
studies neural circuits of aggression and their perturbations in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases
studies how internal state influences the circuit-level computation of color and motion information in the fly visual system