studies the neurological basis of substance-use disorders
Dr. Brielle Ferguson
studies the circuit mechanisms of attention dysfunction
Dr. Annie Ciernia
studies the epigenome in brain development
Dr. Angelina Kakooza Mwesige
studies neurodevelopmental disorders in low-resource communities
Dr. Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar
studies the neuroanatomy and molecular mechanisms of addiction and reward
Dr. Francesca Sargolini
studies the neuronal basis of spatial cognition
Dr. Lillian Brady
studies sex differences and hormonal regulation of neural circuit activity underlying environmental context-reward associations in substance use disorders
Dr. Sepiedeh Keshavarzi
studies the neural underpinnings of the sense of self-motion and orientation in space.
Dr. Maria Geffen
studies neuronal circuits that support auditory perception and learning
Dr. Jessica Osterhout
studies neuro-immune interactions and the neural circuits underlying sickness symptoms.
Dr. Mary Kay Lobo
studies basal ganglia and reward circuitry that regulate motivation and repetitive behaviors.
Dr. Vanessa Stempel
studies the neural circuits and mechanisms that govern instinctive behavior in mice
Dr. Karine Fénelon
studies the neural circuits underlying sensorimotor gating
Dr. Rebecca Shansky
studies the role of sex and hormones on stress- and fear-related behaviors and neural circuitry
Dr. Rocio Servin
studies the roles of mechanotransduction in gastrointestinal function
Dr. Isabella Wagner
studies how the human brain allows us to flexibly adapt to new experiences, learn new information and form long-lasting memories
Dr. Elizabeth Heller
studies the gene regulatory mechanisms that underlie psychiatric disease using rodents models of drug use and chronic stress
Dr. Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
uses experimentation and modeling to uncover the neural computations underlying complex cognition in health and disease
Dr. Andrea Carmine Belin
studies primary headache disorders such as cluster headache by identifying and characterizing genetic markers
Dr. Donna Calu
studies how neural systems encode for motivation and behavioral flexbility using in vivo recordings of neural activity within rat based reward-learning tasks.