Neurology

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

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

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
- Neural network development in preterm and term infants as part of an ongoing study examining cerebral abnormalities associated with neurodevelopmental impairment in prematurely born children

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

Liu-Lin Thio, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Cellular neurophysiology
- Inhibitory glycine receptors
- Ketogenic diet

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

Robert White, MD, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- MRI and PET imaging of neuroinflammation
- Multimodal imaging in Parkinson disease and movement disorders
- Biomarkers of Parkinson disease in veterans
- Cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease

Allyson Zazulia, MD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Medical education
- Cerebrovascular regulation following acute intracerebral hemorrhage
- Ischemic stroke
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Traumatic brain injury
- Cerebrovascular effects of Alzheimer’s disease
- Cerebrovascular effects of severe congestive heart failure/cardiac transplantation