Basic Research in Neurology

Disorders of the Developing Brain

Autism; neonatal stroke; encephalopathy; hypoxic-ischemic brain injury; cerebral palsy; seizures; neonatal neuroimaging.

Daniele Canzio
Donna Ferriero
Corey Harwell
Arnold Kriegstein
Mercedes Paredes
Alex Pollen
Sam Pleasure
Elliott Sherr

Glial Biology and Myelin

Katerina Akassoglou
Sergio Baranzini
Jonah Chan
Steve Fancy
Ari Green
Jill Hollenbach
Sam Pleasure

Neuroimmunology/Neurovirology
Pediatric and adult multiple sclerosis; neural injury and repair; neuromyelitis optica; infectious and autoimmune meningitis and encephalitis.

Riley Bove

Ari Green

Jorge Oksenberg
Sam Pleasure

Joe Sabatino

Michael Wilson

Scott Zamvil

 

Genetics of Neurological Disorders

Sleep disorders; circadian rhythms; neurodegenerative diseases; episodic disorders; Alzheimer’s disease; frontotemporal dementia.

 

Claire Clelland
Aimee Kao

Ying-Hui Fu

Jingjing Li

Jorge Oksenberg

Alex Pollen

Louis Ptacek

Yin Shen

Elliott Sherr

Jennifer Yokoyama

 

Movement Disorders

Parkinson’s disease; Huntington’s disease; acute and chronic manifestations of seizures/epilepsy.

      

Joshua Berke
Robert Edwards

Saul Kato

Jon Kleen

Ken Nakamura

Alexandra Nelson

 

Neurovascular Disease

Stroke; vascular malformation; AVM; neuroimaging.

           

Ray Swanson

Zena Vexler

 

Neuro-Oncology

Brain tumors; tumorogenesis; glioblastoma.

 

Anders Persson

Bill Weiss

 

Neurodegenerative Disease

Alzheimer’s disease; frontotemporal dementia; neurodegenerative diseases; tauopathies; healthy aging.

 

Claire Clelland
Dena Dubal

Robert Edwards

Lea Grinberg

Aimee Kao
Suzee Lee

Bruce Miller

Lennart Mucke

Ken Nakamura

Stanley Prusiner

Bill Seeley

Jennifer Yokoyama

      

Neurobiology of Addiction

Pain; stress; PTSD; alcohol abuse disorder; addiction; behavior; dopamine.

 

Joshua Berke

Robert Edwards

Andrew Kayser

Elyssa Margolis

Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri

Alexandra Nelson

Dorit Ron

 

Cognition and Disease

Parkinson’s disease; Alzheimer’s disease; frontotemporal dementias; dyskinesias; dystonia; engineering; neural circuitry.

 

Daniele Canzio
Joshua Berke

Robert Edwards

Adam Gazzaley

Corey Harwell

Saul Kato

Alexandra Nelson

Aimee Kao

Yin Shen

 

Neuroplasticity/Neural Engineering

Neuroprosthetics; sleep; post-stroke recovery.

 

Karunesh Ganguly

 

Sleep

Circadian rhythms; sleep behaviors.

 

Ying-Hui Fu

Louis Ptacek

 

Bioinformatics, Data Science, Digital Medicine

Multiple sclerosis; personalized medicine.

 

Sergio Baranzini

Riley Bove

      

Neuroimaging

Brain and spinal cord imaging; multiple sclerosis; stroke.

 

Roland Henry

Adam Gazzaley

 

Traumatic Brain Injury

Memory; learning; coma and stroke recovery; rehabilitation.

 

Eddy Amorim

Adam Gazzaley