• 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 

Isabelle Brocas

  • Experimental Economics
  • Neuroeconomics
  • Behavioral Economics

Karolina Charaziak

  • Systems neuroscience
  • Physiology of hearing
  • In vivo imaging and electrophysiology
  • Inner ear mechanics & wave propagation
  • Mathematical modeling
  • Neuropsychiatric disorders
  • Multimodal neuroimaging
  • Machine learning, deep learning for clinical neuroscience
  • Large-scale consortium neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging genetics
  • Neurodegeneration and aging

Giorgio Coricelli

  • Neuroeconomics
  • Emotion and decision-making
  • Social Neuroscience

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

Ksenia Gnedeva

  • Sensory organ development and disease
  • Hearing & Balance
  • Retina
  • Cellular and molecular basis of regeneration
  • Gene therapy

Joel D. Hahn

  • The structural organization of brain circuits
  • The neurobiology of aggression
  • Additional collaborative research: 1) The neurobiology of ingestive behavior (with Dr. Scott Kanoski); 2) Mouse brain architecture (with Dr. Hongwei Dong)

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

Radha Kalluri

  • cochlear mechanics, acoustics, nonlinear wave phenomena
  • otoacoustic emissions and noninvasive testing of cochlear function
  • sensory transduction in the auditory and vestibular periphery
  • biophysics of sensory neurons

Hosung Kim

  • Neurodevelopment, neonatal brain imaging
  • Machine learning, deep learning in clinical neuroscience
  • Brain imaging quality assessment & control
  • Prediction of outcome in acute & chronic stroke patients using machine learning
  • Neuroimaging processing and statistical analyses

Jason J Kutch

  • Neural mechanisms for muscle activation
  • Engineering of non-invasive systems to study human motor function
  • Neuromuscular disorders

Lauren McElvain

  • Cellular and circuit mechanisms of movement
  • Synaptic and cellular physiology
  • Neural circuit connectivity maps
  • Circuit mechanisms of movement disorders

Bartlett W. Mel

  • Using computer models to study brain function at single cell and systems levels
  • Role of active dendritic processing in the sensory and memory-related functions of pyramidal neurons
  • Neuromorphic models of visual cortex; neurally-inspired approaches to image processing problems

Jeffrey Moore

  • motor control
  • active sensing
  • neural circuits

Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan

  • Using computer models to study brain function at single cell and systems levels
  • Role of active dendritic processing in the sensory and memory-related functions of pyramidal neurons
  • Neuromorphic models of visual cortex; neurally-inspired approaches to image processing problems

Stephen J. Read

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

Dong Song

  • Hippocampal memory prostheses
  • Experimental, theoretical and computational studies of the hippocampus
  • Combined mechanistic and statistical modeling of nervous systems
  • Mechanisms of learning and memory
  • High-density conformal multi-electrode array
  • Ultraminiaturized bioelectronics systems for neural recording and stimulation

Larry Swanson

  • Learning & Memory

Huizhong W. Tao

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

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