Faculty

Neural control of movement; Computing and experiment control systems; Mathematics and statistics in neuroscience data analysis.

Multisensory integration, social neuroscience and autism spectrum disorder

Exploring the understudied and novel mechanisms by which neuromodulators mediate the interactions between neurons, astrocytes, and microglia in both normal and disease states

Use virtual reality (VR), multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and machine learning to elucidate the psychological and neural signatures of psychopathologies

Retinal degeneration and maladaptive plasticity in inner retinal circuits.

Clinical applications of advanced neuroimaging techniques such as functional MRI (fMRI), MR Spectroscopy (MRS), Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), morphometry, Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) and Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast (DSC)

The interaction of vision, the vestibular system, and human disease on motion perception.

How we process social information, make meaningful social connections, and how these processes vary across the full spectrum of health and psychiatric illness with a particular focus on schizophrenia-spectrum disorders using behavioral and neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI) methods.

Understanding the molecular basis of behaviors relevant to stress and the actions of fast antidepressant and anxiolytic drugs, aiming to identify specific circuits, neuronal subpopulations and synaptic mechanisms involved in these responses.

Mechanisms supporting conceptual processing, language, and action function in patients with brain tumor or epilepsy.

Understanding the neural mechanisms that mediate sensation and action with our hands.

Basal ganglia and degenerative diseases

Cochlear neurodegeneration, neural mechanisms for hearing in noise

Investigating if/how the production of rapid, coordinated movements requires control circuitry that can bypass sensory feedback delays by providing an estimate of the consequences resulting from a motor command.