The Neuroscience Working Group (NWG) at the WNPRC combines state-of-the-art molecular, cellular, imaging, electrophysiological, and behavioral methods to advance the understanding of the normal and diseased nervous system. NWG investigators aim to bring to the clinic much needed treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders that emerge across the human lifespan.
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
- Neurophysiological basis of emotion and anxiety to improve treatments of psychiatric disorders (Kalin lab).
- Mechanisms of cognitive control and consciousness to develop treatments for schizophrenia and coma (Saalmann lab).
- Neural basis of cognitive flexibility to inform its dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease, ADHD, schizophrenia, OCD, and drug addiction (Populin lab).
- Translation of better treatments for glaucoma and presbyopia (Kaufman lab).
- Neuroendocrine regulation of puberty onset (Terasawa lab).
- Blood biomarkers of aging and neurological disorders (Kapoor lab).
- Genes critical to brain maturation and their relationship with neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders (Sousa lab).
- Comprehensive models of Parkinson’s and dementia for translation of neuroprotective and cell-based therapies (Emborg lab).
- Neurocomputational basis of visuospatial processing and autism (Rosenberg lab).
- Neural basis of vision and visually guided behavior (Huang lab).
- Cellular, synaptic, and circuit-level mechanisms mediating sensory computations in the retina (Shaunak lab)
- Molecular, cellular, and physiological actions of steroid hormones in the brain (Levine lab).