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  • Giorgio Ascoli

    Giorgio Ascoli

    University Professor

    Department of Molecular Neuroscience: Description and generation of dendritic morphology, lucid dreaming, human consciousness, protein structure and binding in the nervous system

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  • Ernest Barreto

    Ernest Barreto

    Associate Professor

    The study of synchronization in populations of coupled oscillators, the individual and collective dynamics of neurons in the brain, the fundamental dynamical mechanisms that underlie normal cognitive processing and pathological conditions such as epilepsy

  • Avrama Kim Blackwell

    Avrama Kim Blackwell

    Associate Professor
    Director of the PhD Program, Neuroscience Program

    Department of Molecular Neuroscience: Computational and experimental approaches to the biophysical and biochemical mechanisms of long term memory storage, understanding the cellular and molecular events underlying the discrimination of spatio-temporal patterns by neurons

  • Ann B. Butler

    Ann B. Butler

    Eminent Scholar

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  • Juan Cebral

    Juan Cebral

    Associate Professor, Center for Computational Fluid Dynamics

    Patient-specific computational fluid dynamics modeling of blood flows in cerebral arteries and aneurysms; understanding the role of hemodynamics in the mechanisms responsible for aneurysm initiation, growth and rupture; risk assessment; and medical device modeling (flow diverters).

  • Daniel Cox

    Daniel Cox

    Associate Professor

    Molecular and Microbiology: Neurogenetic dissection of the molecular bases underlying the specification of class specific dendrite morphologies and the relationship between neuronal form and function at the behavioral level

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  • Ted Dumas

    Ted Dumas

    Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Krasnow Institute

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  • Pamela M Greenwood

    Pamela M Greenwood

    Associate Professor

    The genetic modulation of cognitive and brain change in midlife by measuring effects of neurotransmission and neurotrophic SNPs, including the Alzheimer susceptibility gene APOE.

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  • Daniel E Houser

    Daniel E Houser

    Professor
    Chair, Economics

    Experimental statistics and methods, emotion and individual differences, political economy

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  • Saleet Jafri

    Saleet Jafri

    Professor

    Cellular signaling, calcium dynamics, cardiac excitation-contraction coupling, mitochondrial signaling and energy metabolism, high performance computing, computational modeling

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  • Nadine Kabbani

    Nadine Kabbani

    Assistant Professor

    Proteomic organization, evolution of signaling networks in neurons

  • Layne Kalbfleisch

    Layne Kalbfleisch

    Associate Professor

    Neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG) of reasoning and cognitive control across the lifespan, in twice exceptional autism/Asperger's/ADHD and in Alzheimer's Disease

  • Dmitri Klimov

    Dmitri Klimov

    Associate Professor
  • Frank Krueger

    Frank Krueger

    Assistant Professor

    Department of Molecular Neuroscience: Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Social Cognition, Functional Neuroimaging

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  • Robert Lipsky

    Robert Lipsky

    Professor, External Faculty; Department of Molecular Neuroscience

    Molecular Neurogenetics

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  • Kevin A McCabe

    Kevin A McCabe

    Professor

    Experimental economics, economics theory, industrial organization

  • Craig McDonald

    Craig McDonald

    Assistant Professor

    Understanding the factors that determine the salience of ecologically relevant visual and auditory stimuli.

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  • Jim Olds

    Jim Olds

    Director and Chief Academic Unit Officer, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study; Chair, Department of Molecular Neuroscience; The Shelley Krasnow University Professor of Molecular Neuroscience

    Role of signal transduction in memory storage

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  • Joseph J. Pancrazio

    Joseph J. Pancrazio

    Professor
  • Raja Parasuraman

    Raja Parasuraman

    University Professor
    Director, Center of Excellence in Neuroergonomics, Technology, and Cognition

    Cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory using event-related potential (ERP), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) methods; aging and Alzheimer's disease; molecular genetics of cognition; neuroergonomics

  • Nathalia Peixoto

    Nathalia Peixoto

    Assistant Professor

    The engineering of novel implantable devices and electrodes, assistive technology including methods of interfacing electronics that are under human control

  • Matthew S Peterson

    Matthew S Peterson

    Associate Professor

    Visual attention, eye movements, working memory, attentional control, aging, brain plasticity, cognitive training

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  • Evelyn Sander

    Evelyn Sander

    Associate Professor, Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations
  • Siddhartha Sikdar

    Siddhartha Sikdar

    Assistant Professor
  • Robert F Smith

    Robert F Smith

    Professor
    Chair, Psychology

    The effects of adolescent drug consumption, especially nicotine.

  • Paul So

    Paul So

    Associate Professor

    Nonlinear dynamics with application to neuroscience

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  • James C Thompson

    James C Thompson

    Associate Professor

    Examining how we recognize human movement and make sense of other peoples' actions and how this can be applied in specialized settings such as surveillance and in conditions in which human movement recognition may be impaired. *Faculty can have primary affiliation with only one program; for a list of faculty with secondary affiliation in the CBN program, see the CBN Research Interests page.