School of Medicine

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• Molecular mechanism of aging and longevity in mammals

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•  Identifying specific metabolic pathways that underlie sex differences in nutrient uptake and metabolism (glioblastoma)

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• Synaptic plasticity
• Long-term potentiation (LTP)
• Long-term depression (LTD)
• Modulation of hippocampal function by various drugs

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• Interactions between the nervous and genitourinary systems during development
• Molecular basis for heterogeneity in progenitors and their lineage commitments in the GU tract
• Injury and regeneration using animal models
• Mechanisms of malformations using organoids from iPSCs

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• EEG as a tool to develop biomarkers predicting neurological injury and brain health in the high risk neonatal population

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• Suicide
• Treatments for significant psychiatric illness - Electroconvulsive Therapy and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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• Formation, development, and application of genetic, genomics, and bioinformatics methods to better analyze and integrate exome and genome sequencing

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• Novel immunotherapeutic strategies to treat solid tumors

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• To understand the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders, particularly focusing on substance use and addictions

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• REM sleep behavior disorder
• Relationship of sleep and risk of Alzheimer’s disease

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• Spinal cord injury

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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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• Clinical decision support
• Medical errors
• Clinical cognition

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• Molecular mechanisms underlying tauopathies
• Stem cell models of dementia

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• Identify neural processes underlying specific behavioral capacities in rodent models of cognition

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• Neural circuit assembly and visual processing in the retina

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• Glioblastoma
• Cancer stem cells
• Nervous system development

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• Sound coding and processing in the cochlea and along the auditory pathway

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• Children with chronic illness

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• Complex interactions between the immune and nervous systems

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• Risk and resilience in young children
• Effectiveness of parent-child therapies
• Ethnic identity development

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• Regulation of neurotransmitter release at individual synapses
• Functional roles of presynaptic processes in synaptic plasticity and information processing

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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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• Basal ganglia contributions to movement

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• Circadian system influence on the limbic system

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• Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of neural development and its dysregulation in neurodevelopmental disorders

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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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• Effective and efficient, individualized neurorehabilitation in people with stroke, particularly movement and the upper extremity

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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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• Perinatal
• Mood disorders
• Psychotherapy

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• Perinatal mood disorders
• Develop psychosocial interventions for perinatal depression

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• Neuroprosthetics
• Advanced techniques for brain mapping

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

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• Neuroimmunology with a focus on microglial biology

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• Biomaterials
• Tissue engineering
• Regenerative medicine

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• Bioinformatics
• Deep learning models
• Single-cell technologies

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• Pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders
• Sleep disorders

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• Unilateral hearing loss in children
• Hearing loss and cognition

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• Functional properties and physiological roles of BK channels

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• Molecular mechanisms of bioactive lipid signaling
• Bioelectricity and regulation of ion channels
• Physiology of the retina
• Fluid flow in the brain
• Neurodegeneration and vision

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• How primary sensory neurons detect itch-inducing stimuli
• How itch signals are encoded and transmitted in the nervous system
• Molecular and neural pathogenesis of chronic itch conditions

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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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• Quantitative methodology
• Rehabilitation informatics

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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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• Early onset depression
• Effects of poverty on brain development
• Sensitive periods in emotion development and therapeutic response

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• Alzheimer's disease