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    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

    Faculty

    • Albert E. Kent Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology; Director of Faculty Development and Collaborative Excellence, YSM Office of Collaborative Excellence

      Research Interests
      • Behavioral Sciences
      • Electrochemistry
      • Neurobiology
      • Psychiatry
      • Signal Transduction
      • Substance-Related Disorders
    • 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
    • Professor

      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 Collaborative Excellence, 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
    • Gordon M. Shepherd 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
    • Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience

      Research Interests
      • Neurology
      • Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses
      • Parkinson Disease
      • Synapses
      • Receptors, Presynaptic
      • Neurodegenerative Diseases
    • Associate Professor of 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
    • Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Neuroscience Track

      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
    • Director of Graduate Admissions, Neuroscience Track

      Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Director of Graduate Admissions, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program