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• Rehabilitation programs for Parkinson’s disease

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• Treatment of refractory epilepsies using neurostimulation methods, including deep brain and responsive neural stimulation devices

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• Housing and homelessness
• Child maltreatment and child welfare system
• Developmental psychopathology
• Policy and program evaluation
• Prevention science

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• Neuronal mechanisms of perception

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• Depression as a risk factor for multiple hospital readmissions in patients with heart failure
• Stepped care for depression and self-care in patients with heart failure
• Methodological aspects of behavioral intervention research

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• ApoE proteins
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Protein folding
• Intrinsically disordered proteins

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• Effects of delayed secondary insults on white matter injury following traumatic brain injury

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• Aphasia
• Brain injury/concussion

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• Molecular mechanisms of gene regulation that contribute to development and plasticity in the mammalian brain

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• Understanding the neurobiological mechanisms that regulate neuronal survival and death in the injured neonatal brain

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• Mechanisms of neurodegeneration for potential therapeutic intervention

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• Signaling
• Cell behavior

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• Molecular mechanisms of axonal degeneration
• Regeneration in neuropathies

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• Interfaces and adhesion in nature, physiology, and engineering

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• Pain mechanisms

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• Mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disorders
• Tau protein in Alzheimer’s disease
• Progranulin protein in frontotemporal dementia

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• Self-control/over control in young children
• Overcontrol and its contributions to psychopathology (e.g., social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive presentations, anorexia)
• Development of reward processing/positive emotional functioning and the role of parenting in overcontrolled phenotypes in children

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• Prevention of Adolescent Substance Use
• Treatment of Adolescent Substance Use
• Neuropsychopharmacology of ADHD, stimulant, and non-stimulant medications

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• Brain imaging preprocessing and analysis

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• Physician Wellness and Mental Health
• College Mental Health
• Psychiatry and the Media
• Stigma
• Medical Education
• Social Media

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• Cellular and molecular mechanisms of chronic pain, preclinical and translational research

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• Ion channel biophysics and physiology

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• Mass spectrometry-based -omics applications
• Diagnostic/prognostic biomarkers & therapeutic targets for human diseases

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• Computational principles that underlie brain development

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• Endogenous pain modulation
• Neuroendocrinology
• Racial and ethnic disparities in pain
• Biopsychosocial model of chronic pain

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• Using in vivo neuroimaging and biofluid measurements in humans to better understand the pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease

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• Brain networks
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Human neuroimaging

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• Role of the human gut microbiome in health and disease, notably childhood undernutrition and obesity

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• Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension (Biostatistics)

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• How brain metabolism changes with development and aging

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• Pediatric genetics
• Congenital malformation syndromes

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• Choice and decision-making
• Self-control
• Behavioral economics
• Discounting of delaed and probabilistic outcomes

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• Degenerative lumbar disease
• Cervical Myelopathy

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• Epilepsy
• Concussion
• Refractory seizures

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• Neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis using metabolic MRI and PET

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• Anemia

• Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease

• Outcomes after Critical Illness

• Neuroimaging

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• Healthcare access
• Genetic test interpretation
• Intellectual and developmental Disabilities
• Epilepsy

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• Brain tumors
• Brain development
• Stem cells

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• Developmental changes in speed of information processing across the life span
• Role of age-related and other individual differences on other aspects of cognition

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• Molecular targets for drug development in cancer

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• Human genetics of neurological disorders
• Deep mutational scanning
• Zebrafish models of human disease

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• Elucidating the function of various brain macrophages in neuropathology and the molecular mechanisms driving these phenotypes

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• Neural mechanisms of learning and memory
• Spatial coding in hippocampal neurons
• Neuronal circuit dynamics

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• Identification of “omics” (proteomic, transcriptomic and genetic) factors associated with neurodegeneration

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• Advanced structural, functional, and diffusion MR acqusitions and analyses to study brain networks in healthy individuals and those with psychiatric conditions
• Endophenotypes (biological markers) of schizophrenia, psychosis, and early onset (pediatric) depression
• Quality control of MR data, including rigorous multi-site studies
  Temporal dynamics of the fMRI response

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• Neuropathic pain
• Acute and persistent post-surgical pain

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• Social determinants of health, disparities, biomarkers, and clinical outcomes in multiple sclerosis and related disorders

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• Psychiatric Genetics

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• Structural and functional neuroimaging
• Neuropsychological Assessment
• Forensic Neuropsychological Assessment

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• Uveitis
• Molecular signatures in uveitis
• Bioinformatics
• Therapeutic biomarkers
• Precision medicine

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• Neural underpinnings of cognitive aging the contributing factors and effective intervention