Steve Ramirez
The mission of my lab is twofold: to reveal the neural circuit mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval, and to artificially modulate memories to combat maladaptive states. We will do so in a multi-disciplinary fashion by combining virus engineering strategies, immunohistochemistry and physiology, optogenetics and functional imaging of targeted populations in vivo, and a battery […]
Robert Reinhart
Research in my laboratory seeks to understand (i) the nature of visual perception and cognition (e.g., attention, working memory, executive control, learning) in the healthy adult brain, (ii) how these processes breakdown in aging and neuropsychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia, and (iii) how we can leverage insights from basic and clinical science to develop novel […]
Kathleen Rockland
Dr. Rockland received her doctorate at Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine (1979), working on feedforward and feedback cortical connections with Dr. Deepak Pandya. She completed postdoctoral studies on patchy horizontal intrinsic collaterals with Jennifer Lund at the Medical University of South Carolina, and began an independent laboratory in 1983 at the E.K. Shriver Center […]
Douglas Rosene
Prof. Rosene is recognized as one of the world’s experts on the anatomy of the temporal lobe limbic system and has published extensively in this area. He is also recognized for his work in the neurobiology of cognitive aging and was Program Director for 15 years of a long-standing NIH Program Project studying the neural […]
Jean-Pierre Roussarie
The Roussarie lab is interested in deciphering the molecular events leading to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease. Like most neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s affects only very specific sets of neurons in its earliest stages. These neurons are located in the entorhinal cortex, a brain region indispensable for new memory formation. Dr. Roussarie thinks that understanding the particularities […]
Shelley Russek
The Russek Laboratory’s chief interests surround a desire to understand how the dynamic regulation of neurotransmitter receptors in the brain shapes the development of the nervous system and how the re-establishment of developmental processes in the adult brain can precipitate neurologic and neuropsychiatric diseases. The identification of gene families with multiple genes that code for […]
Valentina Sabino
Prof. Sabino is co-director of the Laboratory of Addictive Disorders, and is currently researching the neurobiology of addiction and stress-related disorders and studies on addiction, aiming to understand the neurobiological substrates of alcohol abuse and dependence by exploring the role of neurochemical systems in excessive alcohol drinking. Prof. Sabino is working toward the development of […]
Jean-Jacques Soghomonian
Prof. Soghomonian directs the Laboratory for the Cellular Biology of the Basal Ganglia. The laboratory currently focuses on neurotransmitter imbalances in the basal ganglia and their contribution to movement, learning, and cognitive disorders. The laboratory uses a combination of anatomical, neurochemical and molecular biology techniques.
Emily Stephen
As a member of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, I work on statistical modeling and analysis of neural recordings across spatial scales. Propagation of electrical and magnetic fields in the brain depends on both static anatomical features and state-dependent dynamical features like coherence, neuromodulation, and active pathways. My work involves constructing models that use […]
Chantal Stern
Research in my laboratory focuses on mapping the human brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Our primary goal is to study out how the normal brain encodes, stores, and subsequently recognizes visual, spatial, and verbal information. In addition to studies of normal short-term and long-term memory processes, we use behavioral testing and fMRI to […]