School of Medicine

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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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• 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

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• Depression in cardiovascular disease

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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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• 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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• 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

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• Plasmacytoid dendritic cells and IFNα/β in host defense and autoimmunity
• Innate immune mechanisms in Alzheimer`s disease and neurodegeneration

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• Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) phenomenology
• Novel treatments for TRD
• Neuroimaging of mood disorders
• Bipolar disorders

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• Dendritic spine morphology and dynamics
• Synaptic morphology and dynamics
• Actin polymerization, assembly and turnover

Keywords: Pathogenesis and experimental therapies for lysosomal storage disorders

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• Circuit wiring
• Optical tool design
• Human neurophysiology

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• Transcriptional networks in the retina
• Mechanistic basis of color vision
• Cis-regulatory basis of human uniqueness and neuropsychiatric disease

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• Neuroactive steroids
• Neuroprotective steroids
• Cholesterol homeostasis
• Steroid effects on the physical properties of cellular membranes

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• Neuromodulation of neural circuit function

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• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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• Inflammation and demyelination in the central nervous system
• Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

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• Genetic basis of Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, stroke and other neurodegenrative disorders

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• Brain development
• Neurovascular coupling

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• Intracerebral microcirculation
• Colloid cysts of the third ventricle
• Intracranial aneurysms
• Intra-operative imagine in neurosurgery

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• Functional heterogeneity of microglia and macrophages in pediatric brain tumors