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• Immune system
• Metabolism and metabolic organs
• Development of obesity
• Type 2 diabetes

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• Molecular mechanisms of inflammatory signaling in diseases hallmarked by chronic inflammation

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• Cell biology of developing nerve and muscle cells

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• Neuroimaging biomarkers of MS

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• Brain-computer interfacing
• Cortical electrophysiology
• Cognitive electrophysiology

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• Neuromuscular disorders
• Acquired immune mediated/ inflammatory myopathies
• Dementias
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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• Utility of auditory evoked cortical responses in the pediatric population
• Electrocochleography as an indicator of cochlear trauma
• Use of auditory brainstem implants in children with cochlear nerve disorders

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• Development and course of alcohol and other substance use disorders
• Effects of alcohol dependence on health services use and costs
• Ethnic differences in psychiatric disorders

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• Idiopathic diseases
• Sensory neuropathy
• Autophagy and diseases

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• Top-down vs. stimulus-driven control mechanisms
• Environmental contingencies moderates use of top-down control
• Differential effects of normal aging on multiple levels of cognitive control

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• Neuroprosthetic research with a particular focus on applications for stroke survivors

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• Anatomy and physiology of network of mouse visual cortex

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• Sensorineural unilateral hearing loss (UHL)
• Blindness

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• How the process of retrieving memories: affects the content and phenomenological characteristics of those memories

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• Identify neurodevelopmental patterns of emotion processing that confer risk for depression and/or anxiety

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• Cognitive and behavioral sequelae associated with movement disorders

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• T cell responses
• Neurodegenerative disorders, esp. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
• Immune dysfunctions

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• Episodic and chronic migraine

Keywords: Sensory neuroscience, evolutionary neuroscience, neuroethology

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• Depression in cardiovascular disease

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• Clinical psychology of aging
• Late-life family communication
• Alzheimer’s disease knowledge in older adults
• End of life mental health issues

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• Clinical research in cerebrovascular disease

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• Brain plasticity at the network level
• Stroke

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• Neuroinflammation
• Cholesterol metabolism

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• Opioids
• Neuroscience
• Reward

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• Mechanisms of peripheral nervous system (PNS) regeneration
• Identify potential targets for therapeutic interventions in central nervous system injury and traumatic PNS injuries

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• Role of glutamate metabotropic receptor 5 antagonists in the treatment of inflammatory pain
• Perioperative management and anesthesia for ENT and Head and Neck surgery

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• Reduction of health and mental health disparities among underserved populations
• Risk behaviors associated with substance abuse and dependence

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• Understanding immune responses in health and disease, including neurologic diseases

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• Exploring novel outcome measures and biomarkers for Multiple Sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases

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• Exploring neuromorphic architectures using silicon and biological neurons.
• Wireless and self-powered neural recording systems.
• Ultra-low-power integrated circuits and instrumentation.

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• Mechanisms of acute and chronic pain
• Molecular and cellular foundations of the somatosensory system
• Neural regeneration
• Clinical pain management

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• Structural mechanisms that underlie gating of members of the voltage-dependent ion channel family

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• Molecular imaging
• Neuroimmune interactions
• Translational research
• Myeloid cell responses
• Neurological and neurodegenerative diseases

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• Pain-related G protein-coupled receptors
• Molecular determinant of opioid receptor signaling

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• Combines biology, engineering, and medicine to develop ultrasound techniques for noninvasive, targeted, and personalized cancer treatment

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• Precision medicine
• Clinical trials
• Genetics of smoking cessation and treatment
• Implementating smoking cessation treatment in patients with mental illness
• Cross-population and longitudinal studies
• Public health genomics

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• Molecular mechanisms regulating photoreceptor gene expression in healthy and diseased retinas

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• The dynamics of neuromodulators and intracellular signals and how they contribute to the function of neuromodulators, to learning, and to the function of sleep

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• Multimodality neuroimage analysis
• Statistical inference and large data analysis
• Biomedical computing

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• Molecular mechanisms of allosteric modulation of ligand-gated ion channels

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• Chromatin regulation and its role in maintaining tumor initiation cells and normal neural stem cells

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• Sleep apnea
• Effectiveness of CPAP therapy on cardiovascular system
• CPAP adherence trials

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• Dynamics and Control of Neural Systems
• Active Inference of Brain and Large-Scale Networks
• Methods for Closed-Loop Neuroactive Drug Delivery

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• Ischemic stroke
• Platelets
• Neutrophils

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• Prescription opioid epidemic
• Epigenetics

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• Alzheimer’s disease
• Synaptic regulation
• Signaling pathways

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• Understand the transcriptional landscape to 1) select an individual progenitor cell to exit the cell cycle, and 2) differentiate as a specific retinal cell type at the appropriate developmental time

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• Noise-induced hearing loss (occupational and non-occupational)
• Auditory physiology
• Cochlear biomechanics
• Acoustics

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• HIV-associated dementia
• Painful peripheral neuropathies in HIV
• Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
• Cryptococcal meningitis
• Toxoplasma encephalitis
• Primary CNS lymphoma
• Cytomegalovirus encephalitis/radiculomyelitis
• HIV myelopathy

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• Characterizing the genotypic and phenotypic architecture of mental disorders as non-linear dynamic systems, primarily in analysis of genome-wide association studies