| Name | Keywords | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Boettiger, Charlotte | Addiction, associative learning, attention, decision-making, frontal cortex, neuroimaging, pharmacology | 1. To understand how the brain learns new stimulus-response associations and replaces learned associations. 2. To determine the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the tendency to select immediate over delayed rewards. 3. To identify the neural bases of addiction-related attentional bias. |
| Burmeister, Sabrina | auditory processing, activity-dependent gene expression, neuroendocrinology, mate choice behavior, vocal communication, brain evolution |
Neural mechanisms of social behavior, sensory systems, comparative neurobiology, molecular and genetic neurobiology |
| Breese, George | pharmacology, HPLC, electrophysiology, ethanol, antidepressants, neurochemistry, neonatal lesions, autoradiography | Behavioral effects of ethanol and psychotropic drugs, and the neuropharmacology of behavior. |
| Carelli, Regina | electrophysiology, electrochemistry, dopamine, drug abuse, motivated behaviors, cocaine self-administration | Neurophysiological mechanisms of goal-directed behaviors; role of nucleus accumbens plasticity in cocaine abuse. |
| Crews, Fulton | ethanol, alchohol, stem cells, excitatory amino acids, behavior, physiology, addiction, neurodegeneration | Role of excitatory amino acid receptors in the behavioral and physiological consequences of ethanol abuse. Neurodegenerative disease mechanisms. |
| Dykstra, Linda | behavioral pharmacology; drug abuse; opioid analgesics; drug reward/reinforcement; pain/analgesia | Behavioral and Pharmacological investigations of opioid analgesia, drugs of abuse and other psychoactive compounds |
| Essick, Gregory | somatosensory; psychophysics; neurophysiology; tactile; motion; direction; human; primate | Physiology and psychophysics of somatosensory perception; cortical mechanisms of somatosensation |
| Fuchs-Lokensgard, Rita | addiction, learning, relapse, drug seeking, prefrontal cortex | The role of associative learning and memory in cue-induced relapse to drug seeking. The role of the prefrontal cortex in suppression of drug seeking. Studies in my laboratory utilize surgical, behavioral, and histological techniques as well as neuropharmacological manipulations. |
| Hodge, Clyde | drug addiction, pharmacology, behavior, neural circuits, genetics, receptors | Behavioral neurobiology and pharmacogenomics of drug abuse: Neural circuits and genes that mediate drug, self-administration and discrimination. |
| drug abuse, oxytocin, maternal behavior and aggression, infant development and behavior, neuroendocrinology | Our research examines the effects of drugs of abuse on maternal behavior and infant behavior and development. We employ methods ranging from behavioral pharmacological to molecular biological and collaborate with scientists from many different departments. | |
| Kash, Tom | alcoholism, electrophysiology, synaptic plasticity, anxiety, neuropharmacology, neural circuits, drug addiction | The Kash lab is interested in the neurophysiological alterations underlying dysregulated emotional behavior associated with alcoholism and anxiety-disorders. |
| Lysle, Donald | neuroimmunology, behavior | Psychoneuroimmunology; the effects of conditioning on lymphocyte reactivity |
| Malanga, CJ | Developmental neurobiology; substance abuse pharmacology; physiology of synaptic transmission and plasticity; behavioral neurobiology; electrophysiology; behavioral pharmacology. | Currently investigating the impact of early developmental exposure to drugs of abuse on brain development, focusing on the role of monoaminergic systems in the structural and functional changes observed with prenatal drug exposure using behavioral, electrophysiological and anatomical techniques. |
| Morrow, A Leslie | GABA-A receptor, mRNA regulation, ethanol, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, neuroactive steroids | Molecular Neuropharmacology, Mechanisms of Receptor Regulation, Alcohol Research, GABA-A Receptors |
| Pedersen, Cort | Maternal behavior, sexual behavior, oxytocin, neuropeptides. | Peptide influences on maternal and sexual behavior; neurobiology of parenting behavior |
| Picker, Mitchell | addiction, behavior, opiates | Behavioral responses to chronic narcotic analgesic treatment |
| Piven, Joseph | autism, genetics, neuropsychology, behavior, development | Dr. Joseph Piven's research focus is on the pathogenesis of autism including neural mechanisms, genetic basis and neuropsychological and behavioral phenotype. |
| Shinkman, Paul | vision, plasticity, developing CNR, behavior, perception | Cross-model plasticity in the developing visual and auditory systems |
| Sockman, Keith | auditory forebrain, behavior, birdsong, catecholamine, evolution, field biology, monoamine, neuroecology, neuroethology, reproduction | Using songbirds as a study system, laboratory approaches are used to investigate the neural integration of ecological and social cues regulating life-history trade-offs and reproductive decisions such as mate-choice, courtship, reproductive timing, and reproductive effort. |
| Sulik, Kathleen | craniofacial, fetal alcohol, autism | Structural and molecular analyses of craniofacial abnormalities associated with fetal alcohol syndrome. |
| Thiele, Todd | addiction, alcohol, behavior, electrophysiology | My primary research interests are directed at the neurobiology of alcoholism. To study the central mechanisms involved with neurobiological responses to ethanol, I use both genetic and pharmacological manipulations. |
| Wiley, R Haven | animal behavior; sociobiology; vocal communication; indi- vidual recognition; dominance hierarchies; cooperative breeding; animal cognition | Evolution of communication and social organization in animals |
