| Name |
Keywords |
Research Interests |
| 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. |
| Gilmore , John |
dopamine, schizophrenia, imaging, FMRI, human, virus, development, |
Developmental regulation of dopamine receptor function in humans. Role of maternal viral infections in brain development. |
| Grobin, Chistina |
development, schizophrenia, GABA, neurosteriod, neuronal migration, prefrontal cortex, apolipoprotein |
The role of neuroactive steroids in brain, and specifically their role in neural development in cortex, and in the specification and migration of GABAergic interneurons. |
| Huang, Xuemei |
Parkinson's, dopamine |
Structural basis for Parkinson's signs and symptoms; Etiologic factors in Parkinson's |
|
Johns, Joey |
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. |
| Mailman, Richard |
dopamine receptors, Parkinson's disease, Schizophrenia, molecular modeling, cAMP, second messengers |
Neurobiology of dopamine receptors |
| Maixner, William |
pain, electrophysiology, pharmacology |
Pharmacological and physiological mechanisms underlying the control of pain; role of hemodynamic factors in nociception |
| Matsushima, Glenn |
myelin, glia, cytokines, demyelination |
Cytokines and MHC genes in the processes of neuronal myelination and demyelination |
| Meeker, Rick |
neuroendocrine; supraoptic nucleus; pituitary; HIV; vasopressin; in situ hybridization; cholinergic receptors; AIDS dementia |
Immunocytochemistry and electrophysiology of vasopressin neuroendocrine cells of the hypothalamus |
| 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. |
| Powers, William |
Alzheimers Disease, Parkinsons Disease |
Abnormalities in metabolic pathways in neurons and glia in Alzheimer and Parkinson patients |
| Robinson, Donita |
alcoholism, electrophysiology, electrochemistry, behavior, neuropharmacology, neural circuits, dopamine, alcohol self-administration, drug addiction |
Cellular mechanisms underlying alcohol use in an animal model of alcohol self-administration: electrophysiological recordings at multielectrode arrays; electrochemical measurements of dopamine at microelectrodes; neuroadaptations induced by chronic alcohol exposure; pharmacotherapy for alcoholism. |
| Samulski, Richard |
Adeno-associated virus, Gene Therapy, Gene Delivery, Muscle Delivery, Molecular Genetics, Molecular medicine, Viral vectors, disease models |
Development of efficient viral vectors for use in human gene therapy, testing adeno-associated virus (AAV) as a viral vector for gene delivery. Use of AAV vectors in animal models of human disease. |
| Snider, William |
neurotrophins, growth factors, sensory neurons, axon growth, nociceptors, transgenic mice, spinal cord development |
Growth factor regulation of axonal morphology, Growth factor regulation of nociceptor development |
| Sulik, Kathleen |
craniofacial, fetal alcohol, autism |
Structural and molecular analyses of craniofacial abnormalities associated with fetal alcohol syndrome. |
| Suzuki, Kinuko |
Tay-Sachs disease, Sandhoff disease; Galactocerebroside, ganglioside, myelination, site-directed mutagenesis, molecular cloning; expression system |
Molecular biology of genetic neurological disorders |
| 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. |
| Tilson, Hugh |
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Experimentally Induced Neurodegeneration in the Nucleus Basalis and Medial Septum |
| Ting, Jenny |
neuroimmunology, genetics, neurodegeneration |
Regulation of transplantation genes in the CNS during neurodegenerative disease states |
| Van Dyke, Terry |
genetics, cancer, glial, glioblastoma, transcription |
Regulatory mechanisms of cell-specific gene transcription and cell growth control |
| Zylka, Mark |
GPCRs, Neural circuitry, electrophysiology, behavior, molecular neurobiology |
Molecules and Mechanisms for Pain |
