Susanne E. Ahmari, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Description: Understanding the OCD Brain: Using Technology to Build Bridges Between Humans and Mice
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Issam Al Diri, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Description: Gene regulation during retinal development and disease
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Claire E. Cheetham, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Description: Stem cells, brain windows and behavior
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Charleen T. Chu, MD, PhD
Professor, Pathology
Description: Cell biology and molecular genetics of neurodegeneration and neuroprotection
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Christopher Cunningham, PhD
Associate Professor, Otolaryngology
Description: The Neural and Sensory Biology of the Auditory System
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Alexandre Y. Dombrovski, MD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Description: Decision-making in mental disorders
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Yan Dong, PhD
Professor, Neuroscience
Description: Synaptic Plasticity, Circuit Remodeling and Ensemble Dynamics in Addiction
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Sean Farris, PhD
Assistant Professor
Description: Neurobiology of addiction and co-morbid disorders
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Fabio Ferrarelli, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Description: Characterizing and ameliorating neurobiological and cognitive dysfunctions in psychiatric disorders | View Video
Zachary Freyberg, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Description: The Freyberg lab examines dopamine neurotransmission in the brain and periphery and its roles in metabolic regulation, synaptic plasticity and neurodegeneration | View Video
Omar Gharbawie, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Description: Cortical control of movement in monkeys (systems neuroscience)
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Michael S. Gold, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Description: Pain research at Pitt and in the Gold Lab
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Anthony A. Grace, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Description:Translational approaches to understanding the biological bases of psychiatric disorders
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James P. Herman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Description: Subcortical contributions to primate visual cognition
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Bryan M. Hooks, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Description: Motor cortex circuitry for skill learning
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ChengCheng Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Description: Neural network dynamics and computation
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Yanhua Huang, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Description: Dr. Yanhua Huang's lab studies sleep-mediated regulation of natural and drug reward.
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Michele Insanally, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Description: Neural mechanisms for perceptual flexibility
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Max Joffe, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Description: We study GPCR regulation of brain reward circuits to discover new potential medications for affective disorders, alcohol use disorders, and other diseases | View Video
Jon W. Johnson, PhD
Professor, Neuroscience, Psychiatry
Description: Mechanistic Study of NMDA Receptor Physiology and Pharmacology
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Radosveta Koldamova, MD, PhD
Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health
Description: Molecular mechanisms of Alzheimers disease
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Takashi D.Y. Kozai, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Description: Understanding Neurodegeneration by researching neurocomputation and neuromodulation via non-neuronal cells | View Video
Samuel Todd Lamitina, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Cell Biology
Description: The Lamitina Lab studies neurodegenerative disease using the model system C. elegans
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J. Patrick Mayo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Description: How we transform what we see into where we look
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Colleen A. McClung, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry
Description: Molecular basis of Psychiatric Disorders
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Stephen D. Meriney, PhD
Professor and Chair of Neuroscience; Professor, Psychiatry; Center for Neuroscience Co-Director
Description: Synaptic physiology, plasticity and the development of novel therapeutic candidates for neuromuscular diseases | View Video
Mike Modo, PhD
Professor, Radiology and Bioengineering
Description: Repairing and regenerating the stroke-damaged brain
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Khaled Moussawi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Neurology
Description: Translational Neuropsychiatry through Neuromodulation
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Rui Peixoto, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Description: Peixoto Lab - Development of cortical and basal ganglia circuits in autism
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Sarah E. Ross, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurobiology
Description: 2P imaging and optogenetic manipulation of the cortical neurons that mediate neurovascular coupling | View Video
Maria (Lania) Eulalia Rubio, MD/PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Description: The ultrastructure of hearing
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Caroline A. Runyan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Description: Runyan Lab: Imaging and manipulating cells and circuits to probe state-dependent processing across the cortex | View Video
Srivatsun Sadagopan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Description: Circuits underlying complex sound perception in real-world listening conditions
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Jami L. Saloman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Description: Interdisciplinary approach to understanding peripheral neurobiology of cancer, inflammation, and pain. | View Video
Nicole N. Scheff, PhD
Principal Investigator
Description: Neurobiology of head and neck cancer and orofacial pain
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Oliver Schluter, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Description: Molecular mechanisms of physiological and pathological synaptic plasticity in mice
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Helen N. Schwerdt, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Description: Create and apply tools to measure the chemical and electrical modes of neural signaling mediating plasticity and long-term learning in health and disease
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Rebecca P. Seal, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurobiology
Description: Understanding the neural circuits for neurological disorders (Motor and Pain) and developing novel therapeutics. | View Video
Marianne L. Seney, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Description: Translational approach to investigating sex differences in depression
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Or Shemesh, PhD
Assistant Professor
Description: Creating technologies to understand the root causes of brain disorders
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Afonso C. Silva, PhD
Endowed Chair Professor of Translational Neuroimaging, Neurobiology
Description: Investigating the anatomical and functional organization of the primate brain in health and disease
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Shawn F. Sorrells, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Description: Delayed neuron development in the human and mouse amygdala
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Sean D. Stocker, PhD, FAHA
Professor
Description: Sensory and Autonomic Dysfunction in Cardiovascular Disease
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Dandan Sun, MD, PhD
Professor, Neurology
Description: Glial Dysfunction Study in Sun lab
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Robert A. Sweet, MD
UPMC Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology
Description: Molecular mechanisms of psychosis in Alzheimer disease and schizophrenia
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Bradley K. Taylor, PhD
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Description:
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Amantha Thathiah, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Description: Understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis | View Video
Mary Torregrossa, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Description: Investigating the neurobiology of addiction and developing novel treatments
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Thanos Tzounopoulos, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Research Otolaryngology, Director Pittsburgh Hearing Research Center
Description: Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying hearing in health and disease
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Alberto L. Vazquez, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Description: Neurovascular coupling in health and disease
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Ross S. Williamson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
Description: Cortical circuits for sensory-guided behavior and perceptual decision-making
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Yan Xu, PhD
Peter M. Winter Chair Professor, Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, Structural Biology, and Physics
Description: Pain, sensory processing, and neural networks | View Video