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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