- 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
- Learning & Memory
- Systems Neuroscience
- Cortex-Basal Ganglia
- Drosophila models for Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease
- Mechanisms regulating synaptic vesicle endocytosis
- Mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity
- Mechanisms of mitochondrial trafficking
- Mitochondrial dynamics in neurological disorders
- Signal transduction
- Photoreceptor function
- Retinal degeneration
- Retinal circuitry
- Neuropsychiatric disorders
- Multimodal neuroimaging
- Machine learning, deep learning for clinical neuroscience
- Large-scale consortium neuroscience
- Neuroimaging genetics
- Neurodegeneration and aging
- Muscle-to-brain Axis
- Exercise-mimicking therapeutics for disease of the nervous system
- Neurogenesis
- Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease
- Synapse development, function, and plasticity in Drosophila
- Development of Neuronal Diversity, Neural Circuitry and Synapses in Neocortical Networks
- Impact of early adverse experience on brain development
- Influence of sex on response to early life stress
- Pediatric audiology
- Speech perception in children
- Auditory sensory devices (auditory brainstem implants, cochlear implants, and hearing aids)
- Auditory development in children with hearing loss
- Sensory organ development and disease
- Hearing & Balance
- Retina
- Cellular and molecular basis of regeneration
- Gene therapy
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI, structural MRI, diffusion MRI)
- Cognitive and behavioral assessments
- Child and adolescent development
- Environmental exposures
- Hormones and sex differences
- Physical activity
- Functional brain mapping of animal behaviors
- Behavioral and neurophysiologic characterization of animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders
- Technology development
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Gut-Brain Axis
- Interoception
- Neural Development
- Neural Control of Feeding Behavior and Metabolism
- Impact of Early Life Environment on Neural Development
- Food intake and body weight regulation
- Learning and memory
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neuroanatomy and circuits
- Cognitive Impairment / Alzheimer’s
- 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
- Synaptic structure, function, formation, repair, and maintenance
- Synapse-glia interactions at the neuromuscular junction
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of the pathogenesis of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
- Autism
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Typical Brain Development
- Sex Differences
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Diffusion-weighted MRI
- Resting-State fMRI
- Development of Neuronal Diversity, Neural Circuitry and Synapses in Neocortical and Brainstem Autonomic Networks
- Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms of Social-Emotional Behavior
- Gene regulatory networks
- Clinical studies of children with ASD and medical co-morbidities
- Impact of early adverse experience on brain development and behavior
- Translating neuroscience of early brain and child development for public policy changes
- 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
- motor control
- active sensing
- neural circuits
- Synaptogenesis
- Neural circuit formation
- Retinal development
- 3-dimensional retinal organoids
- Inherited retinal diseases
- brain organoids
- pluripotent stem cells
- neural stem cells
- neurodevelopmental disorders
- autism
- single cell sequencing
- cell-cell interactions
- Infant Development
- Physical Therapy
- Neuromotor Control
- Cellular neurobiology
- Developmental neurobiology
- Sensory neurobiology
- Central visual processing
- Alzheimer’s
- HIV
- Development
- Connectomics
- ENIGMA
- Genetics
- Neuroimaging Methods
- Diffusion Imaging
- Mathematics
- Bipolar Illness
- Lifestyle/Save the Brain See http://igc.ini.usc.edu
- 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