Faculty

Pasko Rakic

Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology; Department Chair, Neurobiology; Director, Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience

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Office: (203) 785-4330
Email: pasko.rakic@yale.edu

Amy Arnsten

Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychology
Member, Kavli Institute of Neuroscience at Yale University

Dr. Arnsten was raised in Maplewood, N.J. where she attended Columbia High School. She received her B.A. in Neuroscience from Brown University in 1976, and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCSD in 1981. She did post-doctoral research with Dr. Susan Iversen at Cambridge University, and with Dr. Patricia Goldman-Rakic at Yale. Dr. Arnsten's research has led to the development of guanfacine (Intuniv^TM) for the treatment of ADHD and related prefrontal cortical disorders.

Charles Bruce

Associate Professor of Neurobiology

Jessica Cardin

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology

Michael Crair

William Ziegler III Professor of Neurobiology and Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Director, Graduate Studies

Michael C. Crair is the William Ziegler III Professor of Vision Research at Yale University and director of the Vision Core Program in the Department of Neurobiology and the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and director of graduate studies for the Neurobiology Graduate Program. From 1998 to 2006, Crair taught at Baylor College of Medicine, where he was also the co-director of the Medical Scientist (M.D./Ph.D.) Training Program. A graduate of the University of California at...

Michael Higley

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Primary Member, Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair (CNNR)
Member, Kavli Institute fir Neuroscience

Dr. Higley studied behavioral neuroscience at Cornell University. He then completed his MD and PhD in the MSTP Program and the laboratory of Dr. Diego Contreras at the University of Pennsylvania. He continued his scientific training as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Bernardo Sabatini at Harvard Medical School and joined the faculty of the Yale Department of Neurobiology in 2010.

Mark Laubach

Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Associate Fellow, Pierce Laboratory

Dr. Laubach has been at the John B. Pierce Laboratory since the summer of 2001. He obtained his PhD at Wake Forrest University in 1997, working with Dr. Donald Woodward's group on new methods for simultaneously recording from multiple electrode in the brain. He also worked on the neurophysiological basis of reaction-time performance and studied neuronal ensembles in the basal ganglia and frontal cortex. He continued that line of work as a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University from...

Daeyeol Lee

Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychology

Daeyeol Lee is a professor of neurobiology and psychology at Yale University and the director of Yale laboratory of cognition and decision making. Daeyeol received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Seoul National University in Korea and his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He then received a postdoctoral training in neurophysiology at the University of Minnesota. His current research focuses on the brain mechanisms of decision making, in...

Jamie Mazer

Associate Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychology

David McCormick

Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology
Vice Director, Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience

B.A., B.S. 1979 Mathematics and Psychology from Purdue University

Michael Schwartz

Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Director, Medical Studies in Neurobiology
Associate Dean for Curriculum, YMS

Nenad Sestan

Professor of Neurobiology

Gordon Shepherd

Professor of Neurobiology

Justus Verhagen

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology

Xiao-Jing Wang

Visiting Professor

Secondary Faculty

Meenakshi Alreja

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Neurobiology
Director, Minority Recruitment, Psychiatry Department
Director, Postdoctoral Affairs, Psychiatry Department

Hal Blumenfeld

Professor of Neurology, of Neurobiology and of Neurosurgery
Director, Yale Clinical Neuroscience Imaging Center (CNIC)

Bo Chen

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and of Neurobiology

Marvin Chun

Professor of Psychology

Kelly Cosgrove

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, of Diagnostic Radiology and of Neurobiology

Pietro De Camilli

Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Neurobiology
Director, Yale Program in Cellular Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration and Repair
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Nihal deLanerolle

Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neurobiology

Sabrina Diano

Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, of Comparative Medicine and of Neurobiology
Director, Reproductive Neurosciences Group

Ralph DiLeone

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Neurobiology

Ronald Duman

Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neurobiology and of Pharmacology
Director, Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities

Joel Gelernter

Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Genetics and of Neurobiology
Director, Division of Human Genetics (Psychiatry)

Charles Greer

Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neurobiology
Vice Chair of Research, Neurosurgery
Director, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Graduate Program

Jaime Grutzendler

Associate Professor of Neurology and of Neurobiology
Director, Yale Center for Experimental Neuroimaging (YCEN)

Murat Gunel

Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Genetics and of Neurobiology
Co-Director, Yale Program on Neurogenetics
Director, Neurovascular Surgery

Joy Hirsch

Professor of Psychiatry and of Neurobiology

Tamas Horvath

Jean and David W. Wallace Professor of Comparative Medicine and Professor of Neurobiology and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Chair, Section of Comparative Medicine
Jean and David W. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Research, Director, Yale Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism

Elizabeth Jonas

Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) and of Neurobiology

In-Jung Kim

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and of Neurobiology

Jeffery Kocsis

Professor of Neurology and of Neurobiology
Director , Postdoctoral Studies
Associate Director, Yale Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research
Senior Medical Research Career Scientist, Department of Veterans Affairs

Anthony Koleske

Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Neurobiology

Robert LaMotte

Professor of Anesthesiology and of Neurobiology

Csaba Leranth

Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and of Neurobiology

Ifat Levy

Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Neurobiology

Chiang-Shan Li

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Neurobiology

Paul Lombroso

Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychiatry
Director, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology

Angeliki Louvi

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neurobiology

Dhasakumar Navaratnam

Associate Professor of Neurology and of Neurobiology

Godfrey Pearlson

Professor of Psychiatry and of Neurobiology

Marina Picciotto

Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neurobiology and of Pharmacology
Assistant Chair for Basic Science Research, Dept. of Psychiatry

Vincent Pieribone

Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Neurobiology
Associate Fellow, John B. Pierce Laboratory

Marc Potenza

Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Neurobiology
Director, Center of Excellence in Gambling Research
Director, Yale Program for Research on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders
Director, Women and Addictive Disorders, Women's Health Research at Yale

Joseph Santos-Sacchi

Professor of Surgery (Otolaryngology), of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Neurobiology

Rajita Sinha

Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neurobiology
Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center
Chief, Psychology Section in Psychiatry
Deputy Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (Yale CTSA)