Graduate Program in Neuroscience (GPN)

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Alfonso Araque, PhD
Astrocyte-neuron signaling in synaptic physiology & brain function

Kathryn Cullen, MD
Brain imaging to study depression and self-injury in adolescents
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Damien Fair, PA-C, PhD
Cognitive neuroscience

Rocio Gomez-Pastor, PhD
Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and cell death
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Arif Hamid, PhD
Understanding brain substrates for flexible behavioral control and reinforcement learning
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Alexander Herman, MD, PhD
Decision making, neuromodulation, addiction, depression

Peter Kang, MD
Genetics of muscular dystrophy and mechanisms of rare muscle diseases
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Julia Lemos, PhD
Neural mechanisms of stress, motivation, emotion, movement & motor planning & coordination

Danni Li, PhD
Biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of Alzheimer's disease and for understanding aging phenotypes
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Kelvin Lim, MD
Neuromaging & brain disorders

Linda McLoon, PhD
MSTP Associate Director
Developing treatments for eye disorders
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Paul Mermelstein, PhD
Estrogen potentiation of female drug addiction
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Yasushi Nakagawa, MD, PhD
Development of the mammalian forebrain

Harry Orr, PhD
Molecular genetics of neurodegenerative diseases
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John Osborn, PhD
Role of the CNS in regulation of arterial pressure & pathogenesis of hypertension
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Ann Parr, MD, PhD
New therapies for spinal cord injury

Rita Perlingeiro, PhD
Molecular mechanisms controlling lineage-specific differentiation of pluripotent stem cells
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David Redish, PhD
Behavior, decision-making and information processing in neural systems
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Patrick Rothwell, PhD
Modulation of striatal circuits in health and disease
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Donald Simone, PhD
Neural encoding of pain and hyperalgesia

Gordon Smith, PhD
Development of visual cortical circuits
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Sade Spencer, PhD
Neural mechanisms that underlie the development of drug addiction and relapse
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Laura Stone, PhD
Mechanisms of pain, epigenetic regulation of chronic pain
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Mark Thomas, PhD
Neurobiology of drug-induced plasticity and addiction

Sophia Vinogradov, MD
Cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia

Lucy Vulchanova, PhD
Mechanisms underlying persistent pain
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Kevin Wickman, PhD
Mechanisms controlling the excitability of cells in the heart and brain
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Alik Widge, MD, PhD
Modifying brain circuits to treat mental illness
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Anna Zilverstand, PhD
Developing individualized brain-based and technology supported treatments for human drug addiction
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