Neurobiology Faculty

Arnsten, Amy

Research Interests:Molecular influences on higher cognitive function

Bruce, Charles

Research Interests:Neurophysiology of Sensorimotor Processing in Cerebral Cortex

Cardin, Jessica

Research Interests:Neuroscience; Cortex; Inhibitory interneuron; Oscillation; Electrophysiology; Vision; Schizophrenia; Epilepsy; Intracellular; Network

Crair, Michael

Research Interests:Neural circuit development; synapse formation; visual system development; cortex development

Higley, Michael

Research Interests:Synaptic integration; GABAergic interneurons; Inhibition; 2-photon; Electrophysiology

Laubach, Mark

Research Interests:Basal ganglia; Frontal cortex; Associative learning; Decision making; Working memory; Multi-electrode recording; Reversible inactivation methods, including optogenetic techniques; Intra-cranial drug administration; Advanced statistical analysis; Computational models

Lee, Daeyeol

Research Interests:Neural mechanisms of sequence learning and selection; Neural mechanisms of decision making under uncertainty; Neural mechanisms of inter-temporal choice; Neural mechanisms of token & conditioned reinforcements; Reinforcement learning; Behavioral economics and game theory; Function of primate prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia; Coding and transmission of information in a population of neurons

Mazer, Jamie

Research Interests:Vision; attention; cortex; sensory processing; coordinate systems; neuroethology

McCormick, David

Research Interests:Cellular mechanisms of cortical function; thalamocortical function and modulation

Schwartz, Michael

Research Interests:Mammalian cerebral cortex

Sestan, Nenad

Research Interests:Evolution and development of neuronal circuits of the human cerebral cortex

Shepherd, Gordon

Research Interests:Neurons; Synapses; Nervous system

Wang, Xiao-Jing

Research Interests:Neural circuit function in the brain