Susanne E. Ahmari, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Circuit dynamics underlying pathology and treatment of compulsive behaviors and anxiety disorders
Elias Aizenman, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuroprotection
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Howard J. Aizenstein, MD, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry, Bioengineering
Cognitive and affective neuroscience of aging and geriatric brain disorders
Issam Al Diri, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Chromatin structure and function during retinal development and disease.
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Carey D. Balaban, PhD
Professor, Otolaryngology, Biological Sciences, Neurological Surgery
Anatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry of vestibular function
Alison Barth, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Plasticity in developing and adult neocortex.
Corina O. Bondi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology
Associate Director, Executive Function and Neuropharmacology
Therapeutic strategies for complex cognitive deficits after traumatic brain injury
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Edward A. Burton, MD, DPhil, FRCP
Associate Professor of Neurology, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Neuroprotective strategies for Parkinson’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy
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Leah Byrne, PhD
Principal Investigator
Gene therapy for retinal degeneration
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Claire E. Cheetham, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Development, plasticity and regeneration of neural circuits
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Charleen T. Chu, MD, PhD
Professor, Pathology
Cell signaling, dendritic morphogenesis and autophagy/mitophagy in neurodegenerative diseases
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Marlene Cohen, PhD
Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Using attention to study cortical population codes
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Christopher Cunningham, PhD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology
The Neural and Sensory Biology of the Auditory System
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Brian M. Davis, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of central and peripheral nervous system development and plasticity
Alexandre Y. Dombrovski, MD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
My lab studies human decision processes and how they are altered in mental disorders
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Yan Dong, PhD
Professor, Neuroscience
Cellular and circuitry mechanisms underlying pathological neural plasticity
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Fabio Ferrarelli, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Neural circuits implicated in the development, pathophysiology, and treatment of schizophrenia and other major psychiatric disorders
Sean P. Farris, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Neurobiology of addiction and co-morbid disorders
Omar Gharbawie, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Organization of motor & sensory cortex in primates
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Aryn H. Gittis, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Neural circuits in the basal ganglia involved in motor control and disease
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Michael S. Gold, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Peripheral mechanisms of pain.
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J. Timothy Greenamyre, MD, PhD
Professor, Neurology
Mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuroprotection in Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases
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James P. Herman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Subcortical contributions to visual cognitive functions
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Y. Kate Hong, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Neural circuits for sensory-guided behavior
Bryan M. Hooks, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Organization of mouse cortical circuitry underlying control of movement
ChengCheng Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Neuronal network dynamics and neural coding
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Michele Insanally, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Neural circuits for perceptual flexibility
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Tija C. Jacob, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Chemical Biology
Regulation of GABAergic inhibition in development and mental disorders
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Max Joffe, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
GPCR modulation of prefrontal cortex circuits
Karl Kandler, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Plasticity of inhibitory circuits during development and pathology
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Anthony E. Kline, PhD
Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Critical Care Medicine, Psychology, and Center for Neuroscience
Therapeutic strategies and mechanisms for experimental traumatic brain injury
H. Richard Koerber, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Development, plasticity and pain processing in sensory neurons and in the spinal dorsal horn
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Takashi D.Y. Kozai, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Cellular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, neuroprotection, and repair (in vivo 2P imaging and Brain-computer interfaces)
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Sandra J. Kuhlman, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Influence of cortical inhibitory circuits on sensory development and perceptual learning
Cecile D. Ladouceur, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Director, CAN-D Lab
Neurodevelopment of emotion regulation; Puberty and adolescent brain development; Sex differences in risk for anxiety/mood disorders
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Todd Lamitina, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Cell Biology
C. elegans stress responses and models of neurodegenerative disease
Tai Sing Lee, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Study of visual perception, perceptual organization, neural plasticity and neural coding; computer vision
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David A. Lewis, MD
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Functional architecture of the prefrontal cortex and schizophrenia
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Matthew L. MacDonald, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Synaptic protein networks in schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric diseases
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Hansruedi Mathys, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
The cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease
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J. Patrick Mayo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Visual information processing and its modulation by eye movements and cognition by populations of neurons in multiple brain structures
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Colleen A. McClung, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry
The molecular basis of psychiatric diseases
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Stephen D. Meriney, PhD
Professor and Chair of Neuroscience; Professor, Psychiatry; Center for Neuroscience Co-Director
Regulation and modulation of presynaptic ion channels and transmitter release in healthy and diseased synapses
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Khaled Moussawi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Neurology
Advancing the understanding and treatment of substance use and neuropsychiatric disorders.
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Quasar S. Padiath, PhD
Associate Professor, Human Genetics
Gene identification and molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative and demyelinating disorders
Michael J. Palladino, PhD
Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Chemical Biology
Molecular mechanisms of metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases
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Udai Pandey, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Molecular mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases
Marta Pecina, MD PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Expectancies and learning mechanisms influence on treatment outcomes
Rui Peixoto, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Development of corticostriatal circuits in autism spectrum disorders
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Mary L. Phillips, MD, MD (CANTAB)
Professor, Psychiatry
Identifying neural circuitry problems that underlie abnormal emotion processing in adults and youth with mood disorders
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Maria (Lania) Eulalia Rubio, MD/PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
AMPA receptors in hearing and hearing loss. Ultrastructure and the nature of the tripartite synapse
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Caroline A. Runyan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Imaging and manipulating cells and circuits to understand population coding across the cortical hierarchy
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Jami L. Saloman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine and Neurobiology
Peripheral neurobiology, cancer neuroscience, pain
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Oliver Schluter, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of physiological and pathophysiological synaptic plasticity
Helen N. Schwerdt, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Multi-modal neural signaling mediating learning and plasticity in health and disease
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Marianne L. Seney, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
The molecular basis of sex differences in depression
Or Shemesh, PhD
Assistant Professor
We are building (and using) new technologies to study and reverse brain disease.
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Afonso C. Silva, PhD
Endowed Chair Professor of Translational Neuroimaging, Neurobiology
Anatomical and functional imaging of the marmoset brain; cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer’s disease; genetic engineering
Shawn F. Sorrells, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Neuron migration and maturation in the limbic system in mice and humans
Peter L. Strick, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Chair of Neurobiology, Center for Neuroscience Co-Director
CNS circuits of motor and cognitive functions; motor skill acquisition and retention; functional imaging
Robert A. Sweet, MD
UPMC Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology
Mechanisms of psychosis in Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia
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Bradley K. Taylor, PhD
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Neurobiology and Pharmacology of Chronic Pain and Opioid Dependence
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Tobias Teichert, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Bioengineering
Neural mechanisms of auditory function and decision-making in the non-human primate
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Mary Torregrossa, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Determining developmental risk factors for addiction and novel treatments based on learning and memory systems
Robert S. Turner, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Neural circuits of motor performance and skill learning. Dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. Neuromodulation. Deep brain stimulation
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Thanos Tzounopoulos, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Research Otolaryngology, Director Pittsburgh Hearing Research Center
Mechanisms underlying normal and pathological hearing
Alberto L. Vazquez, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Imaging of neuronal, metabolic and vascular function and dysfunction
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Timothy Verstynen, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Psychology
Neural basis of action planning, decision-making and skill learning
Ross S. Williamson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
Auditory systems neuroscience, sensory decision making, theoretical neuroscience & machine learning
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Bill J. Yates, PhD
Professor of Otolaryngology and Neuroscience and Vice-Chancellor for Research Protections
Vestibular influences on autonomic control and navigation
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Kejie Yin, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurology
Mechanisms of neurovascular damage and repair in cerebral ischemia and traumatic brain injury
Eric Yttri, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Cross-brain circuit dynamics that underlie motor decision making in trained and naturalistic mouse behavior
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