Michael Bienkowski
- Food intake and body weight regulation
- Hindbrain
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neuroanatomy and circuits
- Nausea and Emesis
- Anorexia and cachexia
- Chemotherapy
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Obesity
Sarah W. Bottjer
- Learning & Memory
- Systems Neuroscience
- Cortex-Basal Ganglia
- Neuropsychiatric disorders
- Multimodal neuroimaging
- Machine learning, deep learning for clinical neuroscience
- Large-scale consortium neuroscience
- Neuroimaging genetics
- Neurodegeneration and aging
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)
S. Duke Han
- Cognition
- Decision Making
- Aging
- Neuropsychology
- Neuroimaging
Daniel P Holschneider
- Functional brain mapping of animal behaviors
- Behavioral and neurophysiologic characterization of animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders
- Technology development
Mark S. Humayun
- Electrical stimulation of the retina
- Retinal prosthesis
- Retinal disease
- Instrumentation for vitreoretinal surgery
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
Neda Jahanshad
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
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
Anna Kamitakahara
- Gut-Brain Axis
- Interoception
- Neural Development
- Neural Control of Feeding Behavior and Metabolism
- Impact of Early Life Environment on Neural Development
Scott E. Kanoski
- Food intake and body weight regulation
- Learning and memory
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neuroanatomy and circuits
- Cognitive Impairment / Alzheimer’s
Jason J Kutch
- 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
Sun Young Lee
- Recovery and high-profile characterization of extracellular vesicle (EV), also know as exosome
- Evaluating the role of EV in retinal diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and inherited retinal diseases
- Developing EV-mediated intraocular therapeutics using bioengineering of EV, cargo loading (small molecular or genes) of EV, and stem cell-derived EV
Pat Levitt
- 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
Sook-Lei Liew
- Neural plasticity and neurorehabilitation
- Motor learning and recovery
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Neuroimaging
- Noninvasive brain stimulation
- Neurofeedback
- Brain computer interfaces
- Virtual reality
Lauren McElvain
- Cellular and circuit mechanisms of movement
- Synaptic and cellular physiology
- Neural circuit connectivity maps
- Circuit mechanisms of movement disorders
David McKemy
Jeffrey Moore
- motor control
- active sensing
- neural circuits
Aaron Nagiel
- Synaptogenesis
- Neural circuit formation
- Retinal development
- 3-dimensional retinal organoids
- Inherited retinal diseases
Lindsey Schier
- Gut-brain axis, neural-metabolic interactions, gustatory system, chemical senses, dietary learning and memory
Larry Swanson
Huizhong W. Tao
- Cellular neurobiology
- Developmental neurobiology
- Sensory neurobiology
- Central visual processing
Paul Matthew Thompson
- Alzheimer’s
- HIV
- Development
- Connectomics
- ENIGMA
- Genetics
- Neuroimaging Methods
- Diffusion Imaging
- Mathematics
- Bipolar Illness
- Lifestyle/Save the Brain See http://igc.ini.usc.edu
Alan G. Watts
- Systems neuroscience
- Neural control of metabolism
- Ingestive behaviors
- Diabetes & Obesity
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
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