| Name | Keywords | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Belger, Aysenil | fMRI, EEG, attention, sensory gating, schizophrenia, autism, cognition | 1. Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention and Executive function. 2. Functional mapping in the brain using magnetic resonance imaging and electrophysiological recordings. 3 . Mapping neural basis of executive dysfunction in schizophrenia and autism. 4. Neurobiology of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. |
| Essick, Gregory | somatosensory; psychophysics; neurophysiology; tactile; motion; direction; human; primate | Physiology and psychophysics of somatosensory perception; cortical mechanisms of somatosensation |
| Fitzpatrick, Douglas | auditory system, sound localization, single unit recording | Sound localization pathways and function from brainstem to cortex. |
| Hollins, Mark | somatosensory, psychophysics | Psychophysical mechanisms of adaptation in normal and disturbed somesthesis |
| Hopfinger, Joseph | fMRI, imaging, attention, visual system, human, memory | 1. The neural consequences of reflexive, or automatic, shifts of visual attention are studied with combined behavioral measures and event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in humans. 2. Determine the temporal and anatomical organization of human attention systems, using event-related potentials combined with neuroimaging methods. 3. Investigation of top-down attentional control, aimed at understanding the cognitive neural architecture of executive attentional processes. |
| Howard, James | Physiology of the neuromuscular junction in clinical myasthenic conditions | |
| LaMantia, Anthony | early forebrain development, pattern formation, induction | My laboratory studies the role of inductive signaling in the early regional development of the mammalian forebrain. |
| Lohmann, Kenneth | neural mechanisms, electrophysiology | Neural mechanisms underlying the detection of magnetic fields and geomagnetic orientation. |
| Maixner, William | pain, electrophysiology, pharmacology | Pharmacological and physiological mechanisms underlying the control of pain; role of hemodynamic factors in nociception |
| Manis, Paul | synaptic transmission, receptors, ion channels, potassium channels, spike-timing dependent plasticity, patch clamp, brain slice, single cell neural modeling, calcium imaging, quantitative real-time PCR, single cell PCR | Cellular mechanisms of auditory information processing and plasticity. Studies examine ion channels and synaptic function and plasticity in the brainstem and cortex. |
| Perl, Edward | pain, nocioception, brain slices, spinal cord, sensory processing | Specificity of sensory systems; cellular and molecular correlates of nociceptive function in mammals |
| Philpot, Benjamin | synaptic plasticity, visual system, ocular dominance, LTP, LTD, NMDA receptors, cortex | We are studying how visual experience modifies the properties of synaptic plasticity (LTP and LTD) so that the visual world can be properly analyzed. We use brain slice preparations from transgenic mice. These studies will characterize how experience regulates the elementary properties of plasticity and excitatory synaptic transmission. |
| Rustioni, Aldo | structure and cell biology of glutamate receptors and of actin-associated proteins | Control of sensory input by presynapic glutamate receptors expressed by primary afferents to the spinal cord. The role of palladin, a newly discovered protein, in synaptic transmission and axonal sprouting in response to injury. |
| Shinkman, Paul | vision, plasticity, developing CNR, behavior, perception | Cross-model plasticity in the developing visual and auditory systems |
| 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 |
| Stuart, Ann | visual system, synaptic transmission, histamine, biophysics | Processing of visual information in a simple (invertebrate) nervous system; mechanisms of synaptic transmission from photoreceptors |
| Tiesinga, Paul | computational neuroscience, neural coding, data analysis, information theory, synchronous oscillations, neuromodulation, selective attention | Biophysics of sensory information processing. |
| Valtschanoff, Juli | neurotransmitter, spinal cord, somatosensory, nitric oxide, vanilloid, electron microscopy | Dr. Valtschanoff's research interests are in neurotransmitters in the brain and spinal cord. Past studies have involved amino acid neurotransmitters and nitric oxide in the rat somatosensory system, combining immunocytochemical techniques at LM and EM level with tract tracing methods and models of altered neuronal activity. Recent reasearch has focused on glutamate receptors and their anchoring proteins, and the role of vanilloid receptors in the mediation of nociception in the dorsal horn of mammals. |
| Weinberg, Richard | dendritic spines, calcium, neuroanatomy, electron microscopy, spinal cord, cortex, synaptic transmission, neurotransmitters, glutamate, GABA | My primary research interest is postsynaptic mechanisms of glutamatergic transmission. I want to understand glutamatergic signaling, especially its short- and longterm modulation. My group is now studying the structural organization of the postsynaptic density and the dendritic spine. |
| Weiss, Ellen | G-Proteins, retina, signaling | The research in my laboratory concerns the regulation of G protein signaling pathways. G-proteins are activated by a family of cell surface receptors known as G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). These receptors, all having seven transmembrane domains, are regulated by diverse environmental signals, including hormones, neurotransmitters, odorants, light and ions such as Ca2+. The level of G protein activity in cells is ultimately determined by the level of receptor stimulation and by several mechanisms that contribute to inhibition of G protein signaling. |
| 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 |
| Zylka, Mark | GPCRs, Neural circuitry, electrophysiology, behavior, molecular neurobiology | Molecules and Mechanisms for Pain |
