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Research

Cell Signaling & Communications
Processes and mechanisms underlying intracellular messaging, excitable membranes, and synaptic and non-synaptic transmission of neural information.
Active Research Laboratories
- Brown Lab Multiphoton Laser-Scanning Microscopy
- Holt Lab Synaptic Pharmacology of the Vestibular Apparatus
- Majewska Lab The Functional Synapse Group
- Nedergaard Lab Glial Disease and Therapeutics
- Noble Lab Stem Cell Biology and Stem Cell Medicine
- O Labs CNS Neuroinflammation Research
- Opanashuk Lab Toxicant Exposure and Brain Development
- Schor Lab Targeted Therapy for Neural Crest Tumors; Cell Signaling in Neurodegenerative Disease
- Shrager Lab Neuron-Neuroglia Interactions
Learning, Memory, & Adaptive Plasticity
Processes and mechanisms underlying how early and adult experience modifies behavior and its underlying neural processes.
Active Research Laboratories
- Cognitive Neuroscience Lab Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation
- Freedman Lab Neural Control of Coordinated Movements
- Haber Lab Basal Ganglia and Degenerative Diseases
- Huxlin Lab Behavioral Studies and Functional Imaging of Visual Function, Plasticity and Rehabilitation After Brain Damage
- Majewska Lab The Functional Synapse Group
- Nordeen Lab Neural Mechanisms Underlying Vocal Learning and Plasticity in Songbirds
- O Labs CNS Neuroinflammation Research
- Paige Lab Spatial Orientation Research
- Pasternak Lab Cortical Circuitry Underlying Memory-Guided Sensory Decisions
- Romanski Lab Prefrontal Cortex Research
- Schieber Lab Control of Fine Finger Movements
- Shrager Lab Neuron-Neuroglia Interactions
Neurobiology of Disease
Fundamental pathologic, translational, and clinical processes and genetic predispositions that afflict the nervous system.
Active Research Laboratories
- Cognitive Neuroscience Lab Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation
- Crane Lab Motion Perception & Spatial Orientation
- Fudge Lab Anatomy and Neurochemistry of Major Psychiatric Illnesses
- Gan Lab Developing Therapies for Blindness and Deafness via Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Replacement
- Haber Lab Basal Ganglia and Degenerative Diseases
- Huxlin Lab Behavioral Studies and Functional Imaging of Visual Function, Plasticity and Rehabilitation After Brain Damage
- Majewska Lab The Functional Synapse Group
- Mayer-Proschel Lab Stem Cells in the CNS
- Mink Lab Basal Ganglia in Normal Control of Movement
- Nedergaard Lab Glial Disease and Therapeutics
- Noble Lab Stem Cell Biology and Stem Cell Medicine
- O Labs CNS Neuroinflammation Research
- Opanashuk Lab Toxicant Exposure and Brain Development
- Paige Lab Spatial Orientation Research
- Romanski Lab Prefrontal Cortex Research
- Schor Lab Targeted Therapy for Neural Crest Tumors; Cell Signaling in Neurodegenerative Disease
- Shrager Lab Neuron-Neuroglia Interactions
- White (Patricia) Lab Regeneration After Noise Induced Hearing Loss
Neurodevelopment & Aging
Neural development and aging, including neurogenesis, differentiation, cell death, synaptic specification, and changes in neural organization and function that accompany senescence.
Active Research Laboratories
- Fudge Lab Anatomy and Neurochemistry of Major Psychiatric Illnesses
- Gan Lab Developing Therapies for Blindness and Deafness via Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Replacement
- Huxlin Lab Behavioral Studies and Functional Imaging of Visual Function, Plasticity and Rehabilitation After Brain Damage
- Majewska Lab The Functional Synapse Group
- O Labs CNS Neuroinflammation Research
- Opanashuk Lab Toxicant Exposure and Brain Development
- Paige Lab Spatial Orientation Research
Sensory, Motor, & Integrative Systems Neuroscience
Sensory transduction, central processing and integration of sensory input across modalities, and the neural control of motor output and behavior.
Active Research Laboratories
- Carney Lab Auditory Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience Lab Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation
- Crane Lab Motion Perception & Spatial Orientation
- DeAngelis Lab Visual Neuroscience
- Freedman Lab Neural Control of Coordinated Movements
- Haber Lab Basal Ganglia and Degenerative Diseases
- Holt Lab Synaptic Pharmacology of the Vestibular Apparatus
- Huxlin Lab Behavioral Studies and Functional Imaging of Visual Function, Plasticity and Rehabilitation After Brain Damage
- Luebke Lab Auditory & Vestibular Efferent Systems
- Majewska Lab The Functional Synapse Group
- Mink Lab Basal Ganglia in Normal Control of Movement
- Nedergaard Lab Glial Disease and Therapeutics
- Newlands Lab Physiology of the Vestibular System
- Nordeen Lab Neural Mechanisms Underlying Vocal Learning and Plasticity in Songbirds
- Paige Lab Spatial Orientation Research
- Pasternak Lab Cortical Circuitry Underlying Memory-Guided Sensory Decisions
- Romanski Lab Prefrontal Cortex Research
- Schieber Lab Control of Fine Finger Movements
- White (Patricia) Lab Regeneration After Noise Induced Hearing Loss