- 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
- Cellular Neurobiology
- Membranes & Transport
- Alzheimer’s Disease Risk – Genetic and Environmental
- Resting State Functional MRI
- Structural MRI
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging
- Inflammation
- Metabolic risk
- Amyloid & Tau
- Experimental Economics
- Neuroeconomics
- Behavioral Economics
- 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
- Neuroeconomics
- Emotion and decision-making
- Social Neuroscience
- Synapse development, function, and plasticity in Drosophila
- Aging
- Cognition
- Memory
- Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
- Sex Differences
- Neuroimaging
- 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
- 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)
- Cognition
- Decision Making
- Aging
- Neuropsychology
- Neuroimaging
- 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
- Electrical stimulation of the retina
- Retinal prosthesis
- Retinal disease
- Instrumentation for vitreoretinal surgery
- 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
- Functional brain imaging of humans
- Naturalistic fMRI
- Social and affective cognitive neuroscience
- 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
- Neural mechanisms for muscle activation
- Engineering of non-invasive systems to study human motor function
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Autism
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Typical Brain Development
- Sex Differences
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Diffusion-weighted MRI
- Resting-State fMRI
- 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
- Effects of emotional arousal on perception and memory
- Age-related changes in emotion and cognition
- Stress and cognition
- Decision Making
- Impulsivity
- Self-control
- Neuroeconomics
- motor control
- active sensing
- neural circuits
- Computational cognitive neuroscience
- Decision neuroscience
- Computational psychiatry
- Reinforcement learning
- Bayesian machine learning
- fMRI
- brain organoids
- pluripotent stem cells
- neural stem cells
- neurodevelopmental disorders
- autism
- single cell sequencing
- cell-cell interactions
- Neuroscience of Decision-making
- Computational models of motivated decision-making
- Computational models of personality
- Pavlovian Instrumental Transfer in human social behavior
- Infant Development
- Physical Therapy
- Neuromotor Control
- Alzheimer’s
- HIV
- Development
- Connectomics
- ENIGMA
- Genetics
- Neuroimaging Methods
- Diffusion Imaging
- Mathematics
- Bipolar Illness
- Lifestyle/Save the Brain See http://igc.ini.usc.edu
- Movement Science
- Neurorehabilitation
- Learning & Memory
- Clinical Trials
- Motor Systems
- Repair and Recovery
- Alzheimer’s disease
- ApoE lipid metabolism
- 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
- Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia
- Blood brain barrier and vascular-neuronal interaction
- The role of innate immunity in CNS diseases and injuries