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Louise
Abbott
Morphological, biochemical, molecular and electrophysical
changes in the central nervous system during development of neurological
disorders in tottering mice.
Paul
Brandt
Calcium homeostasis; calcium-dependent regulation of steroid
receptors; exrpession of alpha integrins.
Gerald
Bratton
Mechanisms by which lead enters the body and produces toxicity;
nutritional influences on lead intoxication; heavy metal effects on reproductive
function.
Antonio
Cepeda-Benito
Associative and nonassociative drug tolerance with emphasis
on morphine and nicotine.
Thomas
Champney
Role of the pineal in seasonal and circadian rhythms; modulation
of epilepsy and immune function by the pineal and its hormone, melatonin.
Wei-Jung
Chen
Neurotoxicology, teratology, and developmental psychobiology.
Joan
Coates
Congenital and inherited neurologic disorders; neurosurgery;
brain tumors; degenerative myelopathy.
Sumana
Datta
Development of the central nervous system in Drosophila
melanogaster.
W.
Les Dees
Molecular and physiological approaches for assessing neuroendocrine
factors controlling and/or affecting the onset of female puberty.
Douglas
P. Dohrman
Cellular mechanisms of drug addiction; alcohol and nicotine
interactions; signal transduction.
David
Earnest
Neurobiology of mammalian circadian rhythms and their regulation
by light-dark signals.
Gerald
Frye
Neuropharmacology of ethanol intoxication, tolerance, physical
dependence and the fetal alcohol syndrome; GABA receptor adaptation in
the regulation of neuronal excitability and in brain development; brain
slice electrophysiology, primary neuronal culture and whole cell patch-clamp
recording.
John
Gelderd
Pathophysiological processes occurring following spinal cord injury; methods
to promote neural regeneration.
Theresa
Good
Development of in vitro models of neurodegeneration; spongiform encephalopathy;
glaucoma.
James
Grau
Learning and memory, spinal plasticity, and pain modulation.
William
Griffith
Neurobiology of aging; cellular basis of epilepsy; brain slice electrophysiology
and pharmacology; patch-clamp and single-channel recording of voltage
and transmitter-activated currents.
Paul
Harms
Reproductive physiology; endocrine regulation of pregnancy.
William
Klemm
Brain mechanisms of alcohol intoxication; identification of bovine sex
pheromones; effects of odor on electroencephalography; neuronal information
processing.
Gladys Ko
circadian regulation of ion channels and neurotransmitter release in retina photoreceptors; synaptic plasticity in hippocampus.
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Julian L. Leibowitz
Replication and gene expression of murine conronaviruses; molecular basis of pathogenesis of murine conronavirus-induced hepatitis and demyelinating disease.
Mary
Meagher
Pain modulation; animal models of anxiety and mood disorders;
learning and memory.
Rajesh
Miranda
Roles of gonadal estradiol-17b and neurotrophins in the GABAergic neurons
of the cerebral cortex; development of circuits involved in cognitive
and affective behaviors.
Jack
Nation
Neurochemical and neurobehavioral effects associated with environmental
pollutants and drugs of abuse.
Cecil
Reynolds
Neuropsychology of memory in children; relationship of affective disorder
to neuropsychological processing deficits.
Ian
Russell
Neural plasticity and mechanisms of learning and memory; recovery of visual
function following cortical frontal eye-field lesions.
Farida
Sohrabji
Role of gonadal hormones (estrogen) in the neurobiology of cognitive diseases;
estrogen-neurotrophin regulation of adult and aging forebrain cholinergic
circuits.
George
Stoica
Mechanism(s) of retroviral-induced neurodegeneration.
Ralph
Storts
Comparative neuropathology with particular interest in demyelinating diseases
of the central and peripheral nervous systems.
Evelyn
Tiffany-Castiglioni
Cellular mechanisms of neurotoxicity; functions of neuroglia; astroglial
response to disease and trauma; cellular mechanisms of epilepsy.
Ronald
B. Tjalkens
Research efforts focus on the role of heavy metals in Parkinson's Disease
and the molecular regulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase in astrocytes
in normal and pathophysiologic states.
Paul
Wellman
Neurochemical basis for feeding and food intake.
Gregg
B. Wells
Structure and function of neurotransmitter gated ion channels, including
nicotinic acetylcholine, serotonin 5HT3, glycine, and GABAA receptors
and cyclic nucleotide gated channels; role of protein structure in disease;
clinical neuropathology.
Robert
Wells
DNA structure; triplet repeats; human hereditary neuromuscular diseases.
C.
Jane Welsh
Neurotropic viruses; autoimmune diseases of nervous system cerebrovascular
endothelial cells; Theilers virus as a model of multiple schlerosis.
James
West
Fetal alcohol syndrome and factors that influence the risk and severity
of brain damage resulting from alcohol and other drugs of abuse during
development.
Ursula
H. Winzer-Serhan
Developmental neuropharmacology; effects of nicotine on the developing
brain; gene regulation by nicotinic receptor activation.
Keith
A. Young
The genetics, cell biology, neuropathology and treatment of brain diseases.
Mark
Zoran
Developmental neurobiology; molecular determinants of synaptogenesis and
synaptic specificity; mechanisms of synaptic plasticity. |
