Neurosciences
All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.
Neurosciences Graduate Program
Brenda Bloodgood, PhD, Director, Biology
Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD, Associate Director, Adjunct/Biology
Victoria Risbrough, PhD, Associate Director, Psychiatry
Professors
Henry Abarbanel, PhD, Physics
Susan Ackerman, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Thomas Albright, PhD, Adjunct/Psychology and Neurosciences
Adam Aron, PhD, Psychology
Maksim Bazhenov, PhD, Medicine
Darwin K. Berg, PhD, Biology-Neurobiology Section
Mark W. Bondi, PhD, Psychiatry
James B. Brewer, MD, PhD, Radiology and Neurosciences
Joan Heller Brown, PhD, Pharmacology
Richard Buxton, PhD, Radiology
Nigel Calcutt, PhD, Pathology
Edward M. Callaway, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences and Biology
Wendy Campana, PhD, Anesthesiology
Gert Cauwenberghs, PhD, Bioengineering
Andrea Chiba, PhD, Cognitive Science
Andrew Chisolm, PhD, Biology
Jerold Chun, MD, PhD, Adjunct/Pharmacology
Don Cleveland, PhD, Medicine/Neurosciences
Hollis Cline, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Eric Courchesne, PhD, Neurosciences
Anders M. Dale, PhD, Neurosciences
Antonio De Maio, PhD, Surgery
Karen Dobkins, PhD, Psychology
Mark H. Ellisman, PhD, Neurosciences
Lawrence Frank, PhD, Radiology
Fred H. Gage, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences and Biology
Douglas R. Galasko, MD, In Residence/Neurosciences
Timothy Gentner, PhD, Program Director, Psychology and Biology
Mark A. Geyer, PhD, In Residence/Psychiatry and Adjunct/Neurosciences
Joseph G. Gleeson, MD, Neurosciences
Lawrence S. B. Goldstein, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Ralph Greenspan, PhD, Biology
Eric Halgren, PhD, Radiology
Shelley Halpain, PhD, Biology
Bruce A. Hamilton, PhD, Medicine
Vivian Y. H. Hook, PhD, Pharmacology
Terry L. Jernigan, PhD, Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology
Yishi Jin, PhD, Biology
Michael W. Kalichman, PhD, Adjunct/Pathology
Alexander Sasha Kauffman, PhD, Reproductive Medicine
David Kleinfeld, PhD, Physics
Edward Koo, MD, Neurosciences
Marta Kutas, PhD, Cognitive Science and Adjunct/Neurosciences
Albert La Spada, MD, PhD, Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Kuo-Fen Lee, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
Jill Leutgeb, PhD, Biology
Stefan Leutgeb, PhD, Biology
Stuart Lipton, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
John Liu, PhD, Adjunct/Ophthalmology
Loren Looger, PhD, Neurosciences
Eduardo Macagno, PhD, Biology
Eliezer Masliah, MD, Neurosciences and Pathology
Mark Mayford, PhD, Psychiatry
Pamela Mellon, PhD, Neurosciences and Reproductive Medicine
William C. Mobley, MD, PhD, Neurosciences
Alysson Muotri, PhD, Pediatrics, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Abraham Palmer, PhD, Psychiatry
Gentry N. Patrick, PhD, Biological Sciences
Martin Paulus, MD, In Residence/Psychiatry
Samuel Pfaff, PhD, Adjunct/Neurobiology
Barbara Ranscht, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
John Ravits, MD, PhD, Neurosciences
Jong Rho, PhD, Neurosciences
Victoria Risbrough, PhD, Psychiatry
Marisa Roberto, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Allen F. Ryan, PhD, Surgery and Adjunct/Neurosciences
David P. Salmon, PhD, In Residence/Neurosciences
Nicholas Schork, PhD, Adjunct/Psychiatry
Terrence J. Sejnowski, PhD, Biology and Adjunct/Neurosciences, Cognitive Science, Computer Science and Engineering, and Physics
Katerina Semendeferi, PhD, Anthropology
John Serences, PhD, Psychology
Tatyana Sharpee, PhD, Adjunct/Physics
Gabriel A. Silva, PhD, Bioengineering
Nicholas C. Spitzer, PhD, Biology
Larry R. Squire, PhD, Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurosciences
Scott Sternson, PhD, Neurosciences
Lisa Stowers, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Neal Swerdlow, MD, PhD, Psychiatry
Michael A. Taffe, PhD, Psychiatry
Palmer W. Taylor, PhD, Pharmacology
Doris A. Trauner, MD, Neurosciences and Pediatrics
Kay Tye, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD, Neurosciences
Jing Wang, PhD, Biological Sciences
Miles Wilkinson, PhD, Reproductive Medicine
Gene Yeo, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Binhai Zheng, PhD, Neurosciences
Yimin Zou, PhD, Biology
Associate Professors
Nicola Allen, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
Stephan Anagnostaras, PhD, Psychology
Brenda Bloodgood, PhD, Program Director, Biology
Jack Bui, MD, PhD, Pathology
Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
Todd Coleman, PhD, Bioengineering
Virginia de Sa, PhD, Cognitive Science
Stephanie Dulawa, PhD, Psychiatry
Pascal Gagneux, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Oliver George, PhD, Psychiatry
Hector M. Gonzalez, PhD, Neurosciences
Donna Gruol, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Xin Jin, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
William Joiner, PhD, Pharmacology
Takaki Komiyama, PhD, Neurosciences
Byungkook Lim, PhD, Biology
Chitra Mandyam, PhD, Adjunct/Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Michael McCarthy, PhD, Psychiatry
Cory Miller, PhD, Psychology
Axel Nimmerjahn, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
Douglas Nitz, PhD, Cognitive Science
Pam Reinagel, PhD, Biology
John Reynolds, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Robert Rissman, PhD, Neurosciences
Ayse Saygin, PhD, Cognitive Science
Bradley Voytek, PhD, Cognitive Science
David Welsh, MD, PhD, Psychiatry
Jared Young, PhD, Psychiatry
Angela Yu PhD, Cognitive Science
Eric Zorrilla, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Assistant Professors
Mikio Aio, PhD, Halıcıoğlu Data Sciences Institute
Johnatan Aljadeff, PhD, Biology
Kenta Asahina, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, PhD, Psychology
Matthew Banghart, PhD, Biology
Marcus Benna, PhD, Biology
Divya Bolar, PhD, Radiology
Timothy Brown, PhD, Neurosciences
Nicole Coufal, PhD, Pediatrics
Richard Daneman, PhD, Pharmacology
Pamela Desplats, PhD, Neurosciences
Judith Fan, PhD, Psychology
Vikash Gilja, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stacy Glasgow, PhD, Biology
Christina Gremel, PhD, Psychology
Sung Han, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
Thomas Hnasko, PhD, Neurosciences
Anastasia Kiyonaga, PhD, Cognitive Science
Giordano Lippi, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
Matthew Lovett-Barron, PhD, Biology
Marcelo G. Mattar, PhD, Cognitive Science
Alejandro Meruelo, PhD, Adjunct/Psychiatry
Gal Mishne, PhD, Halıcıoğlu Data Sciences Institute
Jyoti Mishra, MD, PhD, Psychiatry
Eran Mukamel, PhD, Cognitive Sciences
Nicholas Oesch, PhD, Psychology
Gulcin Pekkurnaz, PhD, Biology
Lara Rangel, PhD, Cognitive Sciences
Cory Root, PhD, Biology
Nathan Shaner, PhD, Neurosciences
Matthew Shtrahman, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Christine Smith, PhD, Psychiatry
Viola Stoermer, PhD, Psychology
Chi-Ying Su, PhD, Biology
Francesca Telese, PhD, Medicine
Li Ye, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
Amir Zarrinpar, MD, PhD, Medicine
Fadel Zeidan, PhD, Neurosciences