Director of Graduate Admissions, Neuroscience Track
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Director of Graduate Admissions, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Neuroscience Track
The interdisciplinary research programs of Yale neuroscience faculty are central to the Neuroscience Track in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program. The primary purpose of the Neuroscience Track is to provide students with maximum diversity and depth in the most important areas of neuroscience research. The Track draws on the knowledge and expertise of more than eighty faculty members, representing over twenty departments in both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine, ranging from Psychiatry to Pharmacology and from Cell Biology to Biomedical Engineering.
Neuroscience Track Leadership
Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Neuroscience Track
Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Physics and of Neuroscience
Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Neuroscience Track
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience; Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Director, Neuroscience Track
Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center, of Neuroscience and of Pharmacology; Director Division of Molecular Psychiatry, Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Basic Science Research, Dept. of Psychiatry; Director, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Faculty
Albert E. Kent Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology; Director of Scientist Diversity and Inclusion, YSM Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Research Interests- Behavioral Sciences
- Electrochemistry
- Neurobiology
- Psychiatry
- Signal Transduction
- Substance-Related Disorders
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience; Director, Minority Recruitment, Psychiatry Department; Director, Postdoctoral Affairs, Psychiatry Department
Research Interests- Acetylcholine
- Electrophysiology
- Glutamates
- Interneurons
- Memory
- Neurobiology
- Nicotine
- Psychiatry
- Puberty
- Signal Transduction
- Prefrontal Cortex
- Kisspeptins
Albert E. Kent Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology; Member, Kavli Institute of Neuroscience at Yale University
Research Interests- Aging
- Alzheimer Disease
- Behavioral Sciences
- Psychology, Child
- Mental Health
- Neurobiology
- Neurosciences
- Schizophrenia
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
- Prefrontal Cortex
- Cognitive Science
Associate Professor of Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Research Interests- Biochemistry
- Biophysics
- Ducks
- Electrophysiology
- Ion Channels
- Mechanoreceptors
- Neurosciences
- Pacinian Corpuscles
- Sensory Receptor Cells
- Trigeminal Ganglion
- Thermoreceptors
- Potassium Channels
- Anseriformes
- Transient Receptor Potential Channels
- Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels
Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Comparative Medicine; Director, Yale Center for Molecular and Systems Metabolism (YMSM); Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
Research Interests- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Musculoskeletal Diseases
- Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
- Neurosciences
- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
- Signal Transduction
Professor of Neurology
Research Interests- Biochemistry
- Central Nervous System
- Neurology
- Neurosciences
- Parkinson Disease
- Schizophrenia
- Synapses
John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Professor of Psychiatry, and in the Child Study Center and of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Director, Mood Disorders Research Program
Research Interests- Adolescent Psychiatry
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depression
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Psychiatry
- Suicide
- Mood Disorders
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging
- Neuropsychiatry
Mark Loughridge and Michele Williams Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neuroscience and of Neurosurgery; Director, Yale Clinical Neuroscience Imaging Center (CNIC)
Research Interests- Attention
- Consciousness
- Consciousness Disorders
- Electrophysiology
- Epilepsy
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Neurobiology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Behavioral Research
- Neuroimaging
Rothberg Professor of Neurosurgery; Vice Chair of Research, Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
Research Interests- Autistic Disorder
- Central Nervous System Diseases
- Nervous System Malformations
- Nervous System Diseases
- Neurologic Manifestations
- Neurosurgery
- Physiology
- Stem Cells
- Diseases
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry; Co-director, Science Fellows Program
Research Interests- Biological Psychiatry
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests- Biochemistry
- Biophysics
- Electrophysiology
- Neurosciences
- Pharmacology
- Smell
- Taste
- Cryoelectron Microscopy
- Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
Associate Professor of Neurology and of Neuroscience
Research Interests- Brain Diseases
- Demyelinating Diseases
- Pain
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
Professor of Neuroscience; Deputy Chair, Neuroscience
Research Interests- Autistic Disorder
- Cerebral Cortex
- Electrophysiology
- Epilepsy
- Interneurons
- Neurobiology
- Neurosciences
- Schizophrenia
Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research Interests- Drosophila
- Smell
- Taste
- Mosquito Vectors
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
Research Interests- Neurology
- Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses
- Parkinson Disease
- Synapses
- Receptors, Presynaptic
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
Assistant Professor in Neuroscience and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests- Cardiovascular System
- Cranial Nerves
- Heart
- Neural Pathways
- Physiology
- Vagus Nerve
- Peripheral Nervous System
- Ganglia, Sensory
- Optogenetics
Associate Professor Tenure; Associate Professor, Neuroscience; Member, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
Research Interests- Amygdala
- Neural Pathways
- Neurophysiology
- Social Behavior
- Neural Networks, Computer
- Prefrontal Cortex
- Theory of Mind
- Social Cognition