ABOUT THIS KIND OF RESEARCH

A number of laboratories study how disease affects the brain and how we treat disease entities. These include studies of viral infection, control of cell growth and degeneration, such as AlzheimerÃs disease. Research also involves study of psychiatric disorders such as dementia and obsessive compulsive disorder and movement disorders like Parkinson's disease.

FACULTY INVOLVED

• David Abrams
  Research: Biobehavioral mechanisms in addictive behaviors; reward circuitry; memory and nicotine.
  
  Graduate program: none
   
• Walter Atwood
  Research: Neurotropic Viruses (HIV-1, JC Virus).
  
  Graduate programs: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry; Pathobiology
   
• Elaine Bearer
  Research: Molecular mechanisms of acting dynamics in growth cones and in axoplasmic transport.
  
  Graduate programs: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry; Pathobiology; Neuroscience; Physiology
  
• Linda Carpenter
  Research: Mood and anxiety disorder endophenotypes; translation of preclinical research regarding early life adversity to clinical psychoneuroendocrine research and novel neurostimulation therapy and augmentation pharmacotherapy for treatment resistant depression.
  
  Graduate program: none
  
   
• Curtis Doberstein
  Research: Cerebral ischemia/stroke.
  
  Graduate program: None
  
  
• John E. Donahue
  Research: Blood-brain barrier in aging and neurodegenerative diseases.
   
  Graduate program: None
   
• Justin Fallon
  Research: Synapse formation and plasticity. Mechanisms of muscular dystrophy and Fragile X mental retardation.
  
  Graduate programs: Neuroscience; Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
   
• Gerard Friehs
  Research: Functional neurosurgery; movements disorders.
  
  Graduate program: None
   
• Benjamin Greenberg
  Research: Brain stimulation in severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  
  Graduate program: None
   
   
• William Heindel
  Research: Neuropsychology of human learning and memory.
  
  Graduate programs: Psychology; Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences
   
   
• Martin Keller
  Research: Investigations of the short-and long-term course of psychiatric illnesses - particularly mood and anxiety disorders - and the effect of different neuropsychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments upon the course of these illnesses in humans.
  
  Graduate programs: Neurology; Psychiatry
  
  
• W. Curt LaFrance, Jr.
  Research: Neuropsychiatric aspects of Epilepsy, Nonepileptic Seizure Treatment trials, cognitive and mood studies for epilepsy.
  
  Graduate programs: Neurology; Psychiatry; Clinical Neuroscience
  
  
• Barry Lester
  Research: Development of infants at risk, child development and substance use onset.
  
  Graduate programs: none
   
• Paul Malloy
  Research: Frontal lobe disorders, cognition and brain imaging studies of dementia.
  
  Graduate programs: Psychiatry; Neuropsychology
  
  
• Peter Monti
  Research: Biopsychosocial mechanisms in addictive behaviors; process and treatment outcome.
  
  Graduate Program: none
   
• Brian Ott
  Research: Experimental treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Neuroimaging in dementia, including single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Neuroendocrine substrates of dementia.
  
  Graduate program: none
  
   
• Lawrence Price
  Research: Neuropharmacology and neurobiology of mood and anxiety disorders.
  
  Graduate program: Psychiatry and Human Behavior
   
• Steven Rasmussen
  Research: Pathophysiology and treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder.
  
  Graduate program: Psychiatry
   
• Stephen Salloway
  Research: Treatment trials, cognitive and brain imaging studies for dementia.
  
  Graduate programs: Neurology; Psychiatry; Neuropsychology; Clinical Neuroscience
   
• Edward Stopa
  Research:
  
  Graduate program: none
  
  
• Robert Swift
  Research: The neuropharmacology of alcohol and drug intoxication, abuse and dependence.
  
  Graduate program: none