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Neurology
Sofia Beas
Neurobiology
Lillian Brady
Dopamine, Estrogen, Drugs of Abuse
Kauê Costa*
Learning, Dopamine, Molecular Neuroscience
Rita Cowell
Etiology and progression of neurodevelopmental disorders
Kirstie Cummings
Neurobiology
Jeremy Day
Neurobiology
Jennifer DeBerry
Anesthesiology
Yogesh Dwivedi*
Psychiatry
Karen Gamble
Mechanisms and entrainment of circadian clocks
Adam Goodman*
Clinical Neuroscience, Epilepsy, Emotion
Andrew Hardaway*
Eating Behavior; Behavioral, Cellular, Molecular Neuroscience
Jasper Heinsbroek
Motivated Behavior, Basal Ganglia, Opioid Use Disorder
Caesar Hernandez
Aging, Alzheimer's, Emotion
Abbi* Hernandez
Aging, Alzheimer’s, Gut-brain-axis, Gut microbiome, Metabolism
David Knight*
Neural substrates of human learning, memory, and emotion
Adrienne Lahti
Schizophrenia
Ronald Lazar
Neurology
Junghee Lee
Psychiatry, Social neuroscience in severe mental illness
Lingyong Li
Chronic pain, pain-induced mood disorders, opioid tolerance and addiction
Farah Lubin
Learning & Memory, Epigenetics, Non-coding RNAs
Beth Lucas*
Psychiatry
Lauren Luther
Mental Illness, Reward Processing, Cognitive Neuroscience
Matthew Nelson
Neurophysiology, Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, Neurolinguistics
Minae Niwa
Psychiatry
Yuri Pavlov
Classical Conditioning, Working Memory, Consciousness, EEG
Jamie Peters
Neuropharmacology; Addiction neural circuits; Psychedelic therapeutics
Julie Quinet*
Optometry & Vision Science
Kirsten Schoonover
Dysbindin Abnormalities in Schizophrenia
Rachel Smith
Neuroengineering, machine learning, brain computer interface
Robert Sorge
Innate immune system involvement in pain and addiction
Christianne Strang
Vision, developmental neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience
Jerzy Szaflarski*
Brain mapping, epilepsy, and neuronal plasticity
Kristina Visscher
Neurobiology
Jarred Younger
Neuroinflammation, pain, and fatigue
Rui Zhang*
Sleep, circadian disruption, drug addiction, neuroimaging