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Neurobiology and Anatomy

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

There are three main areas of specialization within the department, although several faculty participate in interdisciplinary teams that work on multiple problems.

 

Neural Systems of Sensation and Cognition

Neural mechanisms of multisensory integration and cross-modal perceptual processes

Subcortical modulation of sensory processing

Dwayne W. Godwin
Huai Jiang
John G. McHaffie 
Jian Mu

Central nervous system mechanisms of pain

Robert C. Coghill  (Lab)
John G. McHaffie

Neural and pharmacological modulation of cognitive changes during aging

David R. Riddle
Mary Lou Voytko

Development and shaping of auditory circuitry

Craig K. Henkel

Visuomotor integration

Terrence R. Stanford

Memory and cognitive function

Christos Constantinidis  (Lab)
Emilio Salinas

Memory, synaptic plasticity and olfaction

Ashok Hegde

Computational neuroscience

Emilio Salinas

Neural survival in Development, Aging and Injury

Role of trophic factors in neuronal and glial survival, activity,and plasticity

Judy K. Brunso-Bechtold
James E. Johnson
Ronald W. Oppenheim
David R. Riddle

Regulation and effect of stress response in the mediation of neuronal survival

Carolanne E. Milligan
Michael Tytell

Biochemical and molecular mechanisms of neuronal death

Carolanne E. Milligan
Ronald W. Oppenheim

Role of glia in mediating neuronal plasticity and survival

John G. McHaffie
Carolanne E. Milligan
David R. Riddle

Neuronal precursor cells in the mature CNS

David R. Riddle

Protein microarray analyses of neural development and neurological disorders

Qiang Gu

Neuroprotection and calcium dynamics during development

Christopher Turner

Functional and structural imaging

Functional imaging of human brain mechanisms supporting the pain experience

Robert C. Coghill
John G. McHaffie

Functional imaging of neurobiological changes during aging

Mary Lou Voytko

Human anatomical atlas development

Walter J. Bo
Robert L. Bowden