NCD Faculty Members/Research Interests

ANATOMY/MEDICINE (NEUROLOGY)

• SWENSON, RAND: Neuroanatomy, effect of manual procedures on chronic neck pain

ANESTHESIOLOGY

• FANCIULLO, GILBERT: Pain management therapies
• YEAGER, MARK: Neuroendocrine response to trauma, Mathematical modelling of sepsis-induced immune dysfunction

ANESTHESIOLOGY/PHARMACOLOGY

• DELEO, JOYCE: Neuroimmunology, CNS neuroimmune responses in chronic pain

BIOCHEMISTRY

• MADDEN, DEAN: Structural biology of the glutamate receptor ion channel implicated in learning and memory, and diseases such as epilepsy
• SUPATTAPONE, SURACHAI: Pathogenesis of prion disease

BIOLOGY

• DOLPH, PATRICK: Molecular mechanisms of retinal degeneration in Drosophila
• SLOBODA, ROGER: Microtubule based motility in neurons

EDUCATION

• COCH, DONNA J.: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, investigation of the development of reading skills using event-related potentials (ERPs)

GENETICS

• BRENNER, CHARLES: NAD+ biosynthesis in Wallerian degeneration and protection against peripheral neuropathy
• DUNLAP, JAY: Molecular biology of the biological clock
• MOORE, JASON: Genetic epidemiology of neurophychiatric diseases, computational genetics, bioinformatics
• PIKIELNY, CLAUDIO: Role of pheromones in complex stereotyped courtship and mating behaviors in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster

GOVERNMENT

• MASTERS, ROGER: Neurotoxins in behavior

MEDICINE

• BERMAN, STEPHEN: Neuronal apoptosis
• BUCKEY, JAY: Hyperbaric oxygen treatment
• COHEN, JEFFREY: Neuromuscular, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, axonal transport in diabetic neuropathy
• FADUL, CAMILO: Neuro-oncology, immune mechanisms in brain tumor therapy
• HOLMES, GREGORY: Epilepsy - how seizures effect brain development.
• LEE, STEPHEN: Molecular pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease
• JOBST, BARBARA: Clinical characterization and electrical propagation pathways of epileptic seizures
• KASPER, LLOYD: Neuroimmunology, immune modulation in MS
• STOMMEL, ELIJAH: Diabetic neuropathy, CNS Toxoplasma gondii infection and cryptogenic epilepsy
• THADANI, VIJAY: Epilepsy, functional brain imaging; localization of seizure foci for the purpose of epilepsy surgery
• WILLIAMSON, PETER: Surgical treatment of epilepsy

MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

• NOELLE, RANDY: CD40 Ligand in MS

MUSIC

• APPLETON, JON: How music is processed in the brain, alternative ways music reaches people with various disorders such as dyslexia.

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY

• WEINSTEIN, JAMES: Mechanisms of low back pain, radicular pain

PATHOLOGY

• BURSZTAJN, SHERRY: Glutamate signaling and neuronal death
• HARRIS, BRENT: Neuropathology, CNS development and glial cell biology
• HICKEY, WILLIAM F.: Neuropathology, neuroimmunology and inflammatory diseases of the CNS
• RHODES, C. HARKER: Neuropathology, glial neoplasms and genes involved in their development

PEDIATRICS

• DARNALL, ROBERT: Neurobiology of cardiorespiratory control. Role of the ventral medulla in sleep
• FILIANO, JAMES: Pediatric Neurology, Mitochondrial Disorders, Brain abnormalities in SIDS
• MORSE, RICHARD: Epilepsy in Children, Functional brain imaging, prevention of seizure-induced damage on brain development
• NORDGREN, RICHARD: Attitudes in Epilepsy, Status Epilepticus in Children

PHYSIOLOGY

• DAUBENSPECK, ANDREW: Respiratory related cortical evoked responses
• GULLEDGE, ALLAN: Cellular neurophysiology of the cerebral cortex
• HENDERSON, LESLIE: Sex steroid modulation of GABA receptor function
• LEITER, JAY: Neural mechanisms of CO2 chemosensitivity and pH regulation, respiratory neurobiology
• MAUE, ROBERT: Characterization of sodium channel function
• NATTIE, EUGENE: Central CO2 chemosensitivity
• NORTH, WILLIAM: Arginine Vasopressin and learning
• ST. JOHN, WALTER: Brainstem mechanisms of respiratory rhythmogenesis
• YEH, HERMES H: Synaptic dynamics and plasticity in developing and adult CNS

PSYCHIATRY

• FERGUSON, ROBERT: Rehabilitation of neurocognitive deficits after chemotherapy
• FLASHMAN, LAURA: Neuropsychology and neuroimaging of schizophrenia and neurological disorders
• FRIEDMAN, MATTHEW: Psychobiology and clinical psychopharmacology of anxiety, affective and stress-related disorders
• GREEN, ALAN: Clinical and biological studies of patients with schizophrenia and related psychiatric disorders/action of atypical and novel antipsychotic drugs
• GREEN, RONALD: Morphology of auditory association cortex in dyslexia and schizophrenia
• GREENOUGH, GLEN: Measurement of sleep deprivation/apnea
• KING, BRYAN: Behavioral pharmacology, self-injurious behavior in mental retardation, animal models of self-injury, psychopharmacology in autism and other developmental disorders
• MCALLISTER, THOMAS: Traumatic brain injury, neuropsychiatric disorders, neuropharmacology, functional MRI
• ROTH, ROBERT: Structural and functional imaging of affective and anxiety disorders
• WISHART, HEATHER: Neuropsychology and brain imaging of multiple sclerosis, early dementia

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

• BUCCI, DAVID J.: (1) Neurobiological mechanisms of learning, memory, and attention, (2) functional anatomy of cortical attention systems
• CLARK, ANN: Steroid influences on female sexual behavior
• COHEN, YALE: (1) Representation and synthesis of auditory space, (2) Multimodal representation of extrapersonal space, (3) Multimodal mechanisms of attention, (4) Sensorimotor integration
• CRAMER, CATHERINE: (1) Development of ingestive behavior, especially physiological and experiential mechanisms subserving feeding discontinuities at weaning. (2) Development of tolerance and withdrawal from opiates in neonates. (3) Neonatal experience
• GRANGER, RICHARD: (1) Computational analysis of brain circuits, (2) Pharmacology and pharmaceutical development
• HUGHES, HOWARD: (1) Visual neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience and psychophysics. (2) Specific projects involve studies of eye-head coordinating during gaze shifts, polymodal sensory integration, pattern and form processing, binocular interactions
• KELLEY, WILLIAM: (1) How different kinds of information like words (verbal) or unfamiliar faces (non-verbal) are encoded, (2) whether damage to brain areas shown to be active produces memory impairment
• TAUBE, JEFFREY: (1) Neurobiology of learning and memory, (2) Neural mechanisms underlying the processing of spatial information
• TSE, PETER: (1) Visual neuroscience, fMRI, and psychophysics. (2) Specific interests include how information about 3D form is processed by the brain

RADIOLOGY DEPT

• CROMWELL, LAURENCE: Neuroimaging and interventional neuroradiology
• DUNN, JEFFREY: Metabolic and structural studies of human disease models with emphasis on neurological disorders and NMR microscopy
• ESKEY, CLIFFORD Imaging of cerebral perfusion and metabolism
• MAMOURIAN, ALEXANDER
• SWARTZ, HAROLD: Ischemia-reperfusion injury; pathophysiological and physiological changes in oxygenation; melanin and Parkinson's disease

SURGERY

• BALL, PERRY: Neuroscience/Critical care, spine
• DUHAIME, CHRISTINE: Brain injury in immaturity and epilepsy mechanisms
• HOOPES, JACK: (1)Pathogenesis and sparing of radiation myelopathy, (2)Modeling brain deformation during surgery (3)Brain tumor oxygen and hypofractionated radiation therapy
• ROBERTS, DAVID: Stereotaxy, epilepsy, movement disorders
• SCHMIDEK, HENRY: Pituitary tumors, molecular genetics of brain tumors

THAYER SCHOOL OF ENGINEERIING

• PAULSEN, KEITH: Neuroimaging, image-guidance, model-drive image reconstruction
• POGUE, BRIAN: Near-infrared optical monitoring and treatment of tumors
• TREMBLY, STUART: Therapuetic heating of tissue with microwave energy