Category: Disease Mechanisms
Gunduz, Aysegul
Gunduz, Aysegul (University of Florida) Neural correlates of behavior and information processing in electrocorticographic signals (ECoG) in humans
Kornysheva, Katja
Kornysheva, Katja (Bangor University) Mechanisms of skilled motor perfomance
Sadri-Vakili, Ghazaleh
Miller, Courtney
Miller, Courtney (Scripps Research Institute) Therapeutic development of novel treatments for memory disorders
Fowler, Christie
Fowler, Christie (UC Urvine) Neurobiological mechanisms underlying motivated behaviors and behavioral deficits associated with neuropsychiatric disorders
Morton, Jenny
Morton, Jenny (Univ. of Cambridge) Genetic neurological disorders
Duffell, Lynsey
Duffell, Lynsey (UCL) Novel neuromodulatory therapies for humans with Spinal Cord Injury and activity-based therapies to promote recovery of function
Schwarz, Lindsay
Stensola, Hanne
Stensola, Hanne (Champalimaud, Lisbon) Entorhinal and hippocampal spatial cognition systems
Gillan, Claire
Gillan, Claire (Trinity College Dublin) Underlying biological mechanisms of mental health
Gittis, Aryn
Gittis, Aryn (Carnegie Mellon) Neural circuits of the basal ganglia
Fitzgerald, Melinda
Fitzgerald, Melinda (University of Western Australia) Mechanisms and treatment of neurotrauma
Rico, Beatriz
Rico, Beatriz (King’s College London) Neural circuit assembly and brain disorders
Rolls, Asya
Rolls, Asya (Israel Institute of Technology) Neuronal basis of brain-immune interactions
Brennand, Kristen
Brennand, Kristen (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Stem cell models of Psychiatric disorders
Gu, Xiaosi
Gu, Xiaosi (University of Texas at Dallas) Modeling subjectivity in addiction and psychiatric disorders
Ungerledier, Leslie
Ungerleider, Leslie (NIH) Neurocircuits for cognition
Ahmari, Susanne
Ahmari, Susanne (U. Pittsburgh) Neural circuits underlying obsessive compulsive disorder
Picciotto, Marina
Picciotto, Marina (Yale) The role of single molecules in both typical behaviors and those related to psychiatric illness
Moghaddam, Bita
Moghaddam, Bita (Pittsburgh) Cognitive and emotional functions in brain regions implicated in schizophrenia, ADHD, anxiety and addictive disorders
Lee, Virginia
Lee, Virginia (U. Penn) disease proteins that form pathological inclusions in hereditary and sporadic neurodegenerative disease
Sklar, Pamela
Sklar, Pamela (Mt. Sinai) Genetic causes of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Segal, Rosalind
Segal, Rosalind (Harvard) How growth factor signaling pathways regulate brain development
Bagni, Claudia
Bagni, Claudia (Univ. Rome & Univ. Leuven) Synaptic plasticity and cancer in the context of intellectual disabilities
Stevens, Beth
Stevens, Beth (Harvard) Interactions between neurons and glia
Zoghbi, Huda
Zoghbi, Huda (Baylor College of Medicine) Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases and Rett syndrome
Bastian, Amy
Bastian, Amy (Kennedy Krieger/Johns Hopkins) Movement disorders following neurological damage in adults & children