• Children and adolescent neurocognitive development, obesity and overeating behavior
  • Decision-making/executive function (e.g., reward, inhibitory control, working memory circuitry) 
  • Clinical consequences of weight gain (and obesity) on brain structure and function
  • Exploration of sex and pubertal effects on these relationships
  • Unraveling social determinants of health on the brain and weight gain
  • Neuroinflammation 
  • Eating behavior, disordered eating
  • Neuroimgaing
  • Computational modeling (e.g., advanced longitudinal analyses, machine learning)
  • Early life nutrition on neurocognitive development 

Sarah W. Bottjer

  • Learning & Memory
  • Systems Neuroscience
  • Cortex-Basal Ganglia

Isabelle Brocas

  • Experimental Economics
  • Neuroeconomics
  • Behavioral Economics

Giorgio Coricelli

  • Neuroeconomics
  • Emotion and decision-making
  • Social Neuroscience
  • Neuropsychiatric disorders
  • Multimodal neuroimaging
  • Machine learning, deep learning for clinical neuroscience
  • Large-scale consortium neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging genetics
  • Neurodegeneration and aging

Dominique Duncan

  • Epilepsy
  • EEG
  • MRI
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Applied Harmonic Analysis
  • Diffusion Geometry
  • Biomedical Signal Processing
  • Nonlinear Filtering
  • Analysis and Modeling of Signals
  • Statistical Signal Processing
  • Virtual Reality

James M Finley

  • Locomotor adaptation and learning
  • Optimality principles underlying the control of healthy and pathological gait
  • Elucidating cortical contributions to human gait
  • Developing virtual-reality based approaches for neurorehabilitation

S. Duke Han

  • Cognition
  • Decision Making
  • Aging
  • Neuropsychology
  • Neuroimaging

Megan M. Herting

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI, structural MRI, diffusion MRI)
  • Cognitive and behavioral assessments
  • Child and adolescent development
  • Environmental exposures
  • Hormones and sex differences
  • Physical activity

Daniel P Holschneider

  • Functional brain mapping of animal behaviors
  • Behavioral and neurophysiologic characterization of animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders
  • Technology development

Andrei Irimia

  • traumatic brain injury in older adults
  • brain aging
  • connectomics
  • cerebral plasticity prompted by traumatic brain injury
  • neuroimaging
  • blood-brain barrier
  • cerebral microhemorrhage
  • aging in atypical populations

Michael W. Jakowec

  • Animal models of Parkinson’s disease
  • Molecular mechanisms of exercise-induced neuroplasticity in the basal ganglia
  • Interactions between dopamine and glutamate within the basal ganglia and their role in control of motor behavior
  • Development of new therapeutic modalities for Parkinson’s disease

Scott E. Kanoski

  • Food intake and body weight regulation
  • Learning and memory
  • Neuroendocrinology
  • Neuroanatomy and circuits
  • Cognitive Impairment / Alzheimer’s

Jonas Kaplan

  • Functional brain imaging of humans
  • Naturalistic fMRI
  • Social and affective cognitive neuroscience

Kristan Leech

Sook-Lei Liew

  • Neural plasticity and neurorehabilitation
  • Motor learning and recovery
  • Stroke rehabilitation
  • Neuroimaging
  • Noninvasive brain stimulation
  • Neurofeedback
  • Brain computer interfaces
  • Virtual reality
  • Early brain development
  • System neuroscience
  • Prenatal programming
  • Obesity and diabetes

Mara Mather

  • Effects of emotional arousal on perception and memory
  • Age-related changes in emotion and cognition
  • Stress and cognition

John R Monterosso

  • Decision Making Impulsivity Self-control Neuroeconomics

Daniel Nation

  • Imaging (human and animal brain imaging)
  • Rodent and Human Behavior Measures
  • Tissue and Cell Cultures

Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan

  • Effects of emotional arousal on perception and memory
  • Age-related changes in emotion and cognition
  • Stress and cognition

Payam Piray

  • Computational cognitive neuroscience
  • Decision neuroscience
  • Computational psychiatry
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Bayesian machine learning
  • fMRI

Stephen J. Read

  • Neuroscience of Decision-making
  • Computational models of motivated decision-making
  • Computational models of personality
  • Pavlovian Instrumental Transfer in human social behavior

Huizhong W. Tao

  • Cellular neurobiology
  • Developmental neurobiology
  • Sensory neurobiology
  • Central visual processing

Carolee J. Winstein

  • Movement Science
  • Neurorehabilitation
  • Learning & Memory
  • Clinical Trials
  • Motor Systems
  • Repair and Recovery

Ruth I. Wood

  • Sex: androgen control of male sexual behavior, sex differences in brain & behavior
  • Drugs: anabolic-androgenic steroid abuse; ethanol and social behavior
  • Cooperation: behavioral endocrinology of cooperative behavior

Hussein Yassine

  • Alzheimer’s disease ApoE lipid metabolism

Jason D Zevin

  • Spoken and written word recognition, speech perception, second language learning and bilingualism, contribution of domain-general learning mechanisms to language acquisition, neuroimaging, computational cognitive modeling

Li I Zhang

  • Synaptic circuitry mechanisms for sensory information processing
  • Technical innovations for tracing brain circuits
  • Neural circuits for innate behavior
  • Synaptic and cellular basis for development and plasticity of neural circuitry
  • Neural circuitry basis for sensory processing disorders

Berislav V. Zlokovic, MD, PhD

  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Ischemia and Stroke
  • Activated Protein C System
  • Amytrophic lateral sclerosis
  • Blood-Brain Barrier
  • Cerebral microcirculation and regulation of cerebral blood flow