studies sex differences and hormonal regulation of neural circuit activity underlying environmental context-reward associations in substance use disorders
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Dr. Sepiedeh Keshavarzi
studies the neural underpinnings of the sense of self-motion and orientation in space.
Dr. Jessica Osterhout
studies neuro-immune interactions and the neural circuits underlying sickness symptoms.
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. Autumn Ivy
studies how early-life exercise can influence the development of cognitive functions
Dr. Farzaneh Najafi
studies cortical and cerebellar mechanisms underlying predictive processing using electrophysiological and optical methods in awake behaving mice.
Dr. Liberty Hamilton
studies how speech sounds are represented in the brain using intracranial recordings from epilepsy patients and scalp EEG.
Dr. Tingting Wang
studies how glial cells regulate homeostatic plasticity, and uses transcriptomic and electrophysiological techniques to study how their functions change in disease states.
Dr. Helen Schwerdt
develops and applies new tools to study neurochemical signaling in learning and disease.
Dr. Marta Garrido
studies how the brain makes predictions and adapts to novel or uncertain environments, and how these mechanism are altered by mental illness
Dr. Malavika Murugan
studies social recognition and social decision making, and how social and non-social rewards are differentially encoded in the brain.
Dr. Ilary Allodi
studies the inhibitory/excitatory changes of the neuronal circuits involved in the pathophysiology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia
Dr. Cláudia Almeida
Dr. Cláudia Almeida studies how neuronal trafficking dysfunction underlies synapse loss during aging and Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Janine Kwapis
studies the epigenetic and molecular basis of long-term memory, particularly how these mechanisms are altered in the aging brain and how epigenetic regulation of circadian genes might contribute to age-related memory decline.
Dr. Andrea Gomez
studies the role of RNA splicing in synaptic plasticity
Dr. Z Yan Wang
studies the neurobiology of aging, senescence, and death
Dr. Maria Diehl
studies the neural mechanisms of how social interactions influence fear and avoidance behaviors
Dr. Jessica Verpeut
studies cerebellar influence on neural development and social and cognitive behaviors
Dr. Caroline Palavicino-Maggio
studies neural circuits of aggression and their perturbations in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases
Dr. Rudy Behnia
studies how internal state influences the circuit-level computation of color and motion information in the fly visual system