Neurology

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• Critical care and emergency neurology
• Neurologic manifestations of critical illness
• Advanced multimodal neuroimaging methods
• Cerebral small vessel disease
• Cerebrovascular physiology and metabolism
• Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia

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• Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD)
• Congenital neuromuscular disorders
• Health equity

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• Parkinson’s disease and a group of related neurodegenerative disorders caused by PLA2G6 gene mutation

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• Circadian system influence on the limbic system

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• Subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Traumatic brain injury

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• Sleep
• Brain plasticity
• Disorders of consciousness
• Neurological disorders

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• Pediatric neurology

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• Stroke epidemiology
• Social determinants of health

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• Pathogenesis of amyloid fibrils and amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease

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• Lentiviral vectors
• AAV vectors
• Tissue-specific expression vector

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• Pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders
• Sleep disorders

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• Epidemiology and genetic pathways implicated in neurodegeneration
• Early markers of dementia
• Dementia prevention
• Clinical trials in dementia

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• Pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease
• Role of cholesterol metabolism in modulating the immune response in animal models of Alzheimer disease pathology

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• Alzheimer's disease

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• Genetic and molecular basis of ALS

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• Epilepsy

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• Pathophysiologic bases of dementia and gait impairment in Parkinson disease

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• Mild TBI and sleep disorders, sleep and athletes

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• Demyelination
• Children
• Multiple sclerosis
• Autoimmune encephalitis
• HIV
• Headaches

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• Neuroimaging and cerebrospinal fluid techniques
• Early markers of dementia
• Familial dementia syndromes
• Dementia prevention
• Clinical trials in dementia

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• Mechanisms of neurodegeneration and gene targeted therapies in motor neuron diseases

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• Early identification of Alzheimer's disease

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• Alzheimer's disease

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• Circadian clock genes in the regulation of brain oxidative stress, bioenergetics, and neurodegeneration
• Apolipoprotein E modulation of oxidative stress responses in the brain

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• Multiple Sclerosis

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• Epilepsy genetics
• Transition of care
• EEG
• Education

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• Pediatric neurology
• Cerebral injury in newborns
• Neonatal neurology

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• Pathophysiology of dystonia and Parkinson disease
• Mechanisms of deep brain stimulation

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• Brain aging and neurodegeneration
• Spatial biology and tissue mapping

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• Fetal neurology
• Spina bifida myelomeningoicele

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• Basal ganglia pathophysiology
• Development of biomarkers for Parkinson and related diseases
• Pathophysiology of dystonia

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• Diagnosis, pathogenesis and treatment of immune, hereditary and degenerative neuromuscular disorders

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• Development of reading
• Attentional control systems
• Description of large-scale functional networks

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• Pathophysiology of cerebrovascular disease
• Develop strategies for prevention and treatment of cognitive decline in cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative disorders

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• Multiple Sclerosis
• Neuroimmunology

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• New genetic risk factor and modifiers of early onset dementia

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• T cell repertoire, specificity and function in autoimmunity
• Systems analysis of immune system in neurological disorders

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• Tau kinetics
• Stable Isotope Labeling Kinetics
• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Tauopathies

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• Characterize the pathophysiology of CNS trauma in order to better understand, diagnose, and treat its effects in patients

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• Motor neuron disease

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• Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers
• Alzheimer's disease

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• Mechanisms of age- and trauma-related neurodegeneration using in vivo models
• Novel therapeutic compounds

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• Brain development
• Multimodal neuroimaging
• Prematurity
• Adverse environmental factors

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• Neurodegenerative disorders
• Amyloid b-peptide
• Polyglutamine-containing proteins

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• Pediatric epilepsy
• Cellular neuroscience

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• Molecular mechanism of genetic risk factors in late-onset Alzheimer disease

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• Idiopathic Parkinson disease
• Multiple systems atrophy
• Dystonia
• Essential tremor
• Spinocerebellar ataxias
• Huntington disease

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• Primary and secondary stroke prevention and epidemiology of primary intracranial hemorrhage

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• Inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction in skeletal muscle

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• Protein degradation pathways and their relation to aging, muscle weakness and neurodegeneration