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Director: Dr. Kim "Avrama" Blackwell

Head of Neuroscience Advisory Council: Dr. Saleet Jafri

	Dr. Giorgio Ascoli Professor, Department of Molecular Neuroscience, and Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies Samsonovich A., Ascoli G.: Morphological homeostasis in cortical dendrites. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103:1569-1574 (2006) Ascoli G: Mobilizing the base of neuroscience data: the case of neuronal morphologies. Nature Rev. Neurosci., 7:318-324 (2006) email: ascoli @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Susan Bachus Department of Psychology email: sbachus @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Ernest Barreto Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, and Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies Park, Barreto, Gluckman, Schiff, and So, A Model of the Effects of Applied Electric Fields on Neuronal Synchronization, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Vol. 19 #1, pp. 53-70 (2005) Baptista, Grebogi, and Barreto, Topology of Windows in the High-dimensional Parameter Space of Chaotic Maps, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 13 #9, pp. 2681-2688 (2003) email: ebarreto @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Kim 'Avrama' Blackwell Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Neuroscience, and Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies Kotaleski J.H., Blackwell K.T., Plenz D. (2006) Using potassium currents to solve signal-to-noise problems in inhibitory feedforward networks of the striatum.J Neurophysiol. 95:331-41. Lindskog M, Kim M, Wikstrom MA, Blackwell KT, Kotaleski JH. (2006) Transient calcium and dopamine increase PKA activity and DARPP-32 phosphorylation. PLoS Comput Biol. 2(9):e119 Blackwell K.T. (2006) Subcellular, cellular, and circuit mechanisms underlying classical conditioning in Hermissenda crassicornis. Anat Rec B New Anat. 289(1):25-37 email: avrama @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Ann B. Butler Krasnow Professor, Department of Molecular Neuroscience, and Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies Butler, Ann B., Zoltan Molnar, and Paul R. Manger 2002 Apparent absence of claustrum in monotremes: implications for forebrain evolution in amniotes. Brain Behav. Evol., 60: 230-240. Butler, Ann B. 2003 Sensory systems and brain evolution across the Bilateria: commonalities and constraints. In: Sensory Processing of the Aquatic Environment, Collin S, Marshall J, eds). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 375-388. email: abbutler @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Juan Cebral Associate Professor, College of Science, and Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies Cebral JR, Castro MA, Burgess JE, Pergolizzi R, Putman CM (2005), Characterization of Cerebral Aneurysm for Assessing Risk of Rupture Using Patient-Specific Computational Hemodynamics Models, AJNR, 26: 2550-2559. Cebral JR, Castro MA, Appanaboyina S, Putman CM, Millan D, Frangi A (2005), Efficient Pipeline for Image-Based Patient-Specific Analysis of Cerebral Aneurysm Hemodynamics: Technique and Sensitivity, IEEE TMI 24(4): 457-467, special issue on vascular imaging. email: jcebral @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Daniel Cox Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Microbiology Shi, S.-H., Cox, D.N., Wang, D., Jan, L.Y. & Jan, Y.-N. (2004). Contr\ol of dendrite arborization by an Ig family member, dendrite arborization and s\ynapse maturation 1 (Dasm1). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U\SA, 101, 13341-13345. email: dcox5 @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Ted Dumas Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Neuroscience, and the Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies Dumas, T.C. (2004) Early eyelid opening enhances spontaneous alternation and accelerates the development of perforant path synaptic strength in the hippocampus of juvenile rats. Developmental Psychobiology, 45:1-9 Dumas, T.C. (2005a) Late postnatal maturation of excitatory synaptic transmission permits the expression of adult-like hippocampal-dependent behaviors. Hippocampus, 15:562-578 Dumas, T.C. (2005b) Developmental regulation of cognitive abilities: Modified composition of a molecular switch turns on associative learning. Progress in Neurobiology, 76:189-211 email: tdumas @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Jane Flinn Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Dopamine Receptor Subtype Density, as Function of Age in Aplysia californica. V. Chandhoke, M. Southall, J. Flinn. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -pt B 130:461466,2001 Flinn JM, Hunter D, Linkous DH, Lanzirotti A, Smith LN, Brightwell J, Jones BF (2005) Enhanced zinc consumption causes memory deficits and increased brain levels of zinc.Physiol Behav. 83:793-803 email: jflinn @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Karl Fryxell Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Microbiology Polesskaya, O. O. R. F. Smith and K. J. Fryxell (2006) Chronic nicotine doses down-regulate PDE4 isoforms that are targets of antidepressants in adolescent female rats. Biol. Psychiatry, 61, 56-64 Polesskaya, O. O., K. J. Fryxell, A. D. Merchant, L. L. Locklear , K.- F. Ker, C. G. McDonald, A. K. Eppolito, L. N. Smith, T. L. Wheeler, R. F. Smith (2007) Nicotine causes age-dependent changes in gene expression in the adolescent female rat brain. Neurotoxicology & Teratology, in press email: kfryxell @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Shimin Fu Department of Psychology Fu S., Greenwood P., & Parasuraman R. (2005) Brain mechanisms of involuntary visuospatial attention: an event-related potential study. Human Brain Mapping, 25: 378-390 Fu S., Fan S., & Chen L. (2003). Event-related potentials reveal involuntary processing to orientation change in the visual modality. Psychophysiology, 40: 770-775 email: sfu @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Pamela Greenwood Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Greenwood, P. M., Fossella, J. A., & Parasuraman, R. (2005). Specificity of the effect of a nicotinic receptor polymorphism on individual differences in visuospatial attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1611-20 Greenwood, P. M., Sunderland, T., Putnam, K., Levy, J. A., & Parasuraman, R. (2005). Scaling of visuospatial attention undergoes differential longitudinal change as a function of APOE genotype prior to old age: Results from the NIMH BIOCARD study. Neuropsychology, 19, 830-840 email: pgreenw1 @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Daniel Houser Associate Professor, Department of Economics Houser et al., A functional imaging study of cooperation in two person exchange, PNAS, 2001 Houser, Xiao, Emotion expression in human punishment behavior, PNAS, 2005 email: dhouser @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Saleet Jafri Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology E. A. Sobie, S. Guatimosim, L. Gomez-Viquez, L-S. Song, H. Hartmann, M. S. Jafri and W. J. Lederer. 2006. The Ca2+ leak paradox and "rogue ryanodine receptors": SR Ca2+ efflux theory and practice. Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol. 90:172-185 M-H. T. Nguyen and M. S. Jafri. 2005. Mitochondrial calcium signaling and energy metabolism. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1047:127-137 email: sjafri @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Layne Kalbfleisch Assistant Professor, College of Education Human Development, and Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies Kalbfleisch ML. 2004. Functional Neural Anatomy of Talent. The Anatomical Record, Part B: The New Anatomist, 277B (1), 21-36. Kalbfleisch, M.L., Van Meter, J.W., Zeffiro, T.A. (2006). The Influences of Task Difficulty and Response Correctness on Neural Systems Supporting Fluid Reasoning. Cognitive Neurodynamics Penberthy, J.K., Kalbfleisch, M.L., Quigg, M.L., Loboschefski, T., Kovatchev, B., Cox, D. (2006). Electroencephalographic profiles of children with symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Current Pediatric Reviews, 2 (1), 17-32 email: mkalbfle @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Christopher Kello Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Kello, C. T., & Plaut, D. C. (2004). A neural network model of the articulatory-acoustic forward mapping trained on recordings of the vocal tract. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 2354-2364 Kello, C. T., Sibley, D. E., & Plaut, D. C. (2005). Dissociations in performance on novel versus irregular items: Single-route demonstrations with input gain in localist and distributed models. Cognitive Science, 29, 627-654 email: ckello @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Dmitri Klimov Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology T. Takeda and D. K. Klimov (2007) "Dissociation of Aβ1622 Amyloid Fibrils Probed by Molecular Dynamics" J. Mol. Biol. 368, 1202-1213. E. P. Raman, V. Barsegov, and D. K. Klimov (2007) "Folding of Tandem-Linked Domains" Proteins Struc. Funct. Bioinf. 67, 795-810. email: dklimov @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Maria Kozhevnikov Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Kozhevnikov, M., Kosslyn, S. & Shephard, J. (2005). Spatial versus objects visualizers: A new characterization of visual cognitive style. Memory and Cognition, 33 pp. 710-726 email: mkozhevn @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Kevin McCabe Professor of Economics and Law, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, and the Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies A Functional Imaging Study of Cooperation in Two-Person Reciprocal Exchange, with Daniel Houser, Lee Ryan, Vernon L. Smith, and Theodore Trouard, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, In Press Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History, with Joyce Berg and John Dickhaut, Games and Economic Behavior, 10, 1995, 122-142 email: kmccabe @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Jim Olds Director of the Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies Devan, B. D., Petri, H. L., Mishkin, M., Stouffer, E. M., Bowker, J. M., Yin, P. B., Buffalari, D. M., & Olds, J. L. (2002). A room with a view and a polarizing cue: Individual differences in the stimulus control of place navigation and passive latent learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Jul;78(1):79-99. Devan,B.D., Stouffer, E.M., Petri H.L., Mcdonald, R.J. and Olds J.L. (2003) Partial Reinforcement Across Trials Impairs Escape Performance but Spares Place Learning in the Water Maze. Behavioral Brain Research 141:91-104. email: jolds @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Raja Parasuraman Professor, Department of Psychology Greenwood, P. M., Fossella, J., & Parasuraman, R (2005). Specificity of the effect of a nicotinic receptor polymorphism on individual differences in visuospatial attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1611-1620 Espeseth, T. Greenwood, P. M., Reivang, I., Fjell, A. M., Walvhold, K. B., Westlye, E., Lundervold, A., Rootvelt, H., & Parasuraman, R. (2006). Interactive effects of APOE and CHRNA4 on attention and white matter volume in healthy middle-aged and older adults. Cognitive, Behavioral, and Affective Neuroscience, 6(1), 31-43 email: rparasur @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Nathalia Peixoto Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies Peixoto, N., Lima, V.M.F., Hanke, W. (2001). Correlation of the electrical and intrinsic optical signals in the spreading depression phenomenon, Neuroscience Letters, 299(1), 89-92 Ramirez-Fernandez, F.J., Salcedo, W.J., Galeazzo, E., Peres, H.E.M., Hidalgo, P., Peixoto, N. Rubim, J.C. (2004). Integrated sensors and microsystems for biological and environmental applications, Phys. Stat. Sol. (c), S2:125-132, 2004 email: npeixoto @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Matthew Peterson Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Belopolsky, A., Peterson, M. S., & Kramer, A. F., (2005). Visual search in temporally segregated displays: Converging operations in the study of the preview benefit. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 453-466 Erickson, K. I., Colcombe, S. J., Wadhwa, R., Bherer, L., Peterson, M. S., Scalf, P., Kim, J. S., Alvarado, M., & Kramer, A. F. (in press). Training-induced functional activation changes in dual-task processing: an fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex email: mpeters2 @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Evelyn Sander Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences Sander, Barreto, Josic, Morales, and So, The geometry of chaos synchronization. Chaos, 13(1):151-164, 2003 Sander and Josic, The structure of synchronization sets for noninvertible systems. Chaos, 14(2):249-262, 2004 email: esander @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Siddhartha Sikdar Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies Sikdar S, Lee JC, Remington J, Zhao XQ, Goldberg SL, Beach KW, Kim Y (2007) Ultrasonic Doppler vibrometry: novel method for detection of left ventricular wall vibrations caused by poststenotic coronary flow. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 20:1386-92. Sikdar S, Shah JP, Gilliams E, Gebreab T, Gerber L (2008) Assessment of myofascial trigger points (MTrPs): a new application of ultrasound imaging and vibration sonoelastography. Conf Proc IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. email: ssikdar @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Bob Smith Professor, Department of Psychology Smith RF (2003) Animal models of periadolescent substance abuse. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 25:291-301 McDonald CG, Dailey VK, Bergstrom HC, Wheeler TL, Eppolito AK, Smith LN, Smith RF.(2005) Periadolescent nicotine administration produces enduring changes in dendritic morphology of medium spiny neurons from nucleus accumbens. Neurosci Lett. 385:163-7 email: bsmith @ gmu.edu
	Dr. Paul So Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies Park, Barreto, Gluckman, Schiff, and So, A Model of the Effects of Applied Electric Fields on Neuronal Synchronization, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Vol. 19 #1, pp. 53-70 (2005) Evelyn Sander, Ernest Barreto, Steven Schiff, and Paul So (2005) Dynamics of Noninvertibility in Delay Equations. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Supplement Volume 768-777 email: paso @ gmu.edu
	Dr. James Thompson Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Wheaton KJ, Thompson JC, Syngeniotis A, Abbott DF, Puce A. (2004) Viewing the motion of human body parts activates different regions of premotor, temporal, and parietal cortex. Neuroimage 22:277-88 Thompson JC, Clarke M, Stewart T, Puce A. (2005) Configural processing of biological motion in human superior temporal sulcus. J Neurosci. 25:9059-66 email: jthompsz @ gmu.edu

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