Neurology

Peter Kang, MD, MSCI
Neurology
Research Topics
- 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

Renatta Knox, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD)
- Congenital neuromuscular disorders
- Health equity

Paul Kotzbauer, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Parkinson’s disease and a group of related neurodegenerative disorders caused by PLA2G6 gene mutation

Eric Landsness, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Sleep
- Brain plasticity
- Disorders of consciousness
- Neurological disorders

Osvaldo Laurido-Soto, MD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Stroke epidemiology
- Social determinants of health

Jin-Moo Lee, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Pathogenesis of amyloid fibrils and amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease

Mingjie Li, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Lentiviral vectors
- AAV vectors
- Tissue-specific expression vector

Jorge Llibre-Guerra, MD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Epidemiology and genetic pathways implicated in neurodegeneration
- Early markers of dementia
- Dementia prevention
- Clinical trials in dementia

Justin Long, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease
- Role of cholesterol metabolism in modulating the immune response in animal models of Alzheimer disease pathology

Baijayanta Maiti, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Pathophysiologic bases of dementia and gait impairment in Parkinson disease

Soe Mar, MD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Demyelination
- Children
- Multiple sclerosis
- Autoimmune encephalitis
- HIV
- Headaches

Eric McDade, DO
Neurology
Research Topics
- Neuroimaging and cerebrospinal fluid techniques
- Early markers of dementia
- Familial dementia syndromes
- Dementia prevention
- Clinical trials in dementia

Timothy Miller, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Mechanisms of neurodegeneration and gene targeted therapies in motor neuron diseases

Erik Musiek, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Circadian clock genes in the regulation of brain oxidative stress, bioenergetics, and neurodegeneration
- Apolipoprotein E modulation of oxidative stress responses in the brain

Jeffrey Neil
Neurology
Research Topics
- Pediatric neurology
- Cerebral injury in newborns
- Neonatal neurology

Scott Norris, MD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Pathophysiology of dystonia and Parkinson disease
- Mechanisms of deep brain stimulation

Miranda Orr, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Brain aging and neurodegeneration
- Spatial biology and tissue mapping

Joel Perlmutter, MD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Basal ganglia pathophysiology
- Development of biomarkers for Parkinson and related diseases
- Pathophysiology of dystonia

Alan Pestronk, MD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Diagnosis, pathogenesis and treatment of immune, hereditary and degenerative neuromuscular disorders

Steven Petersen, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Development of reading
- Attentional control systems
- Description of large-scale functional networks

Chia-Ling Phuah, MD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Pathophysiology of cerebrovascular disease
- Develop strategies for prevention and treatment of cognitive decline in cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative disorders

Cyril Pottier, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- New genetic risk factor and modifiers of early onset dementia

Naresha Saligrama, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- T cell repertoire, specificity and function in autoimmunity
- Systems analysis of immune system in neurological disorders

Chihiro Sato, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Tau kinetics
- Stable Isotope Labeling Kinetics
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Tauopathies

Andrew Sauerbeck, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Characterize the pathophysiology of CNS trauma in order to better understand, diagnose, and treat its effects in patients

Suzanne Schindler, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers
- Alzheimer's disease

Kathleen Schoch, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Mechanisms of age- and trauma-related neurodegeneration using in vivo models
- Novel therapeutic compounds

Christopher Smyser, MD
Neurology
Research Topics
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Brain development
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Multimodal neuroimaging
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Prematurity
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Adverse environmental factors

B. Joy Snider, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Amyloid b-peptide
- Polyglutamine-containing proteins

Jason Ulrich, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Molecular mechanism of genetic risk factors in late-onset Alzheimer disease

Mwiza Ushe, MD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Idiopathic Parkinson disease
- Multiple systems atrophy
- Dystonia
- Essential tremor
- Spinocerebellar ataxias
- Huntington disease

Renee Van Stavern, MD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Primary and secondary stroke prevention and epidemiology of primary intracranial hemorrhage

Arun Varadhachary, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction in skeletal muscle

Conrad Chris Weihl, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Protein degradation pathways and their relation to aging, muscle weakness and neurodegeneration