Faculty Directory
Get to know NUIN faculty by searching our directory below. Browse, filter the faculty list or search by keyword to learn more. For a complete list, see our alphabetical list of faculty.
Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
I am interested in understanding the mechanisms underlying movement impairments after neural injury or disease and how the nervous system adapts...
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Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery
Glioblastoma is a devastating disease that currently carries a median survival of 21 months. This is primarily due to the high rate of recurrence...
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
The Precision Neuromodulation Lab investigates how macroscopic neural communications in the human brain encode cognition and emotions in wellness and disorders...
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science
I am interested in low-level, bio-inspired, physics-based computer vision. New understanding of animals' brains and behavior can inspire new technology, particularly in the imaging and image processing domains...
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Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences
Erik Andersen is a molecular and statistical geneticist working on behavioral and neurophysiological traits that differ among individuals in a population...
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Professor of Neuroscience
We study brain mechanisms of acute and chronic pain, in humans and rodent models, using multiple technologies. The CTPR is a collaboration between multiple neuroscience labs with the aim of untangling opiate addiction and analgesia in chronic pain...
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Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
The Augustin lab studies neuromodulation and associated intracellular signaling pathways that contribute to synaptic efficacy and circuit functions involved in decision making and behavior, as well as alcohol and substance use disorder...
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Professor of Neurology
Dysfunctional dopamine (DA) signaling has been associated with a broad spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders, prompting investigations into how midbrain DA neuron heterogeneity may underpin this variety of behavioral symptoms...
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Jim Baker, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
My lab has closed and I now concentrate on teaching and assisting other motor systems labs. Our history is the study sensory-motor processing in vestibular and oculomotor systems, in mice and other mammals...
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Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine - Endocrinology
Our focus is on the role of the circadian system in the coordination of behavior and physiology applying genetic approaches to reveal how clocks function within the CNS and peripheral tissues to influence sleep, feeding, and metabolism...
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Professor of Psychology
I research creative cognition and the cognitive and neural bases of how people solve problems with sudden insight...
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
At the Health Equity for Advancing Research and Technology using Genomic Neuroscience (HEART-GeN) lab, we aim to improve therapeutics for underrepresented communities by investigating the influence of genetic ancestry on molecular signatures in the...
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Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)
My lab studies the neural dynamics and molecular mechanisms of nutrient-mediated gut-brain communication. Specifically, we are interested in how these processes help mediate energy homeostasis and how they become dysregulated in disease states...
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Professor of Neuroscience
Our research is focused on the basal ganglia, a group of subcortical brain nuclei critical for the motivation, selection, and execution of action sequences and the primary site of dysfunction in psychomotor disorders including Parkinson’s...
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Associate Professor of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology)
1- Neurobiology of language impairment in aphasia and network-based interventions.2- Clinical application and investigation of efficacy of music interventions for neurologic patients...
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Mechanisms of monoallelic gene expression: Genes that impart cell type identity (such as antigen receptors) are frequently expressed from only one allele, so called monoallelic expression...
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Assistant Professor of Neurology
Dr. Braga studies the functional organization of large-scale networks in association zones of the human brain...
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Professor and Chair of Pathology
The Brat Lab investigates the glioma biology related to genetics, hypoxia, stem cells and immune response...
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Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
The Applied Neuro-Vascular Imaging Lab (ANVIL) uses advanced MRI techniques to assess the interaction of neural activity and vascular physiology in healthy brains and neurological pathology...
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Assistant Professor of Neurology
The primary goal of our research is to use gene discovery and molecular biology approaches to identify new treatments for epilepsy...
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Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Our long-term research goal is to define cell and circuit elements that are involved in basal ganglia function and dysfunction...
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Professor of Medicine
Neurological diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and Alzheimer disease (AD) have all been linked to metabolic dysregulation...
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Professor of Neurology
My lab studies the cancer biology and therapy responses of brain tumors, in particular brain gliomas...
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Assistant Professor of Pathology
Understanding the neuronal environment is crucial for addressing neurodegenerative diseases, akin to examining withering trees in a garden...
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Professor of Neuroscience
Research in our laboratory is directed at understanding the fundamental mechanisms of synaptic communication and how these processes go wrong in neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders...
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Daniel Corcos, PhD, BEd,MA,MSc
Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
Daniel Corcos is a movement neuroscientist working on “human electrophysiology” using TMS, fMRI, EEG, EMG as well as neuronal recordings the sub thalamic nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease undergoing brain surgery...
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Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Three pertinent research lines in my lab:- computer vision for movement analysis, primarily gait analysis in neurorehab, with a focus on inferring the capacity of the nervous system and guiding precision rehabilitation- EMG and kinematic biofeedback...
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Research Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
My current research focus is on the therapeutic effects of deep brain stimulation surgery and the neurophysiological mechanisms that underlie these effects in persons with Parkinson’s disease...
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Assistant Professor of Medicine - Pulmonary and Critical Care
My research focuses on the intersection of metabolism and neuroscience, particularly how metabolic dysfunctions contribute to neurodegenerative diseases...
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Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Pharmacology of neuronal targets and the structural biophysics of ion...
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Professor of Ophthalmology
We study signal processing in both the outer and inner retina. In the outer retina, we focus on how signals are transformed at the cone photoreceptor to Off bipolar cell synapse...
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Professor and Chair of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
Our Neuroimaging and Motor Control Laboratories are dedicated to understanding motor recovery following stroke, in learning the role of brain plasticity in recovery, and in developing novel therapeutic training techniques to improve arm function...
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Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Our current work has two main directions. We are interested in understanding the physiological mechanisms responsible for the generation and propagation of sounds that are generated in the inner ear and can be recorded by placing a small microphone...
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Professor of Neurobiology
The neuronal activity underlying mammalian spatial navigation represents one of the most striking examples of behavioral correlation in the brain. Dr...
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Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Laboratory of Translational Neurobiology led by Dr. Dong focuses on the interaction of genetic and environmental influences on aging and their relevance to the neuropsychiatric disorders, particularly Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)...
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Assistant Professor of Neurology
We are investigating the mechanisms that regulate myelin-forming cell development and function. Myelin is a multilayer lipid membrane structure that ensheaths and insulates axons, allowing for the efficient propagation of action potentials along...
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Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
My research employs several innovative methods designed to elucidate neural mechanisms underlying impaired movement, deliver targeted restorative therapies, and evaluate processes of recovery in individuals with stroke...
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Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
The long-term goal of my research is to understand, from a cell and molecular biological perspective, how mammalian central neurons establish and maintain specific synaptic connections...
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Andrew Fink, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Our research addresses a deep, yet poorly understood problem that straddles cognitive neuroscience and mechanistic neurobiology...
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology
I am a theoretical neuroscientist with active interests in sensory processing, learning and memory, motor control, whole-brain dynamics, and neural networks...
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Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Dr. Colin Franz, MD/PhD, is a physician and scientist at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab as well as an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University...
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Our long term goal is to understand how sensory stimuli are used to build an internal representation of the physical world, and how this representation is in turn processed into our actions and behaviors...
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Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Anesthesiology
Transcription factors and chromatin modifications in neural development of inner ear and brain. With genetics, epigenomics and transcriptomics combined with neuroanatomy and neurophysiology we are leading in elucidating how the developing cochlea...
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Assistant Professor of Neurology
My research is focused on the intersection of the immune system and neurodegenerative disease. My laboratory employs multi-omics strategies to interpret immune system changes related to neurodegeneration...
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Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
We are interested in mechanisms of neuronal growth and polarity, We are using Drosophila melanogaster neurons in vivo and in culture and work using live-cell imaging, optogenetics, Drosophilas genetics to address these...
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A.N. Richards Professor and Chair of Pharmacology
Dr. George is the Magerstadt Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology, and Director of the Center for Pharmacogenomics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine...
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Research Professor of Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease
Our laboratory pursues several overlapping areas of research in the human brain, with additional investigations centered on non-human primate models, rodent models and cell culture systems...
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Joshua Glaser, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology (Starting lab September, 2022)
My lab develops interpretable machine learning methods to better make sense of large-scale and complex neural activity data, with a focus on analyzing populations of individual neurons...
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Professor of Linguistics
I'm interested in the cognitive neuroscience of language. My research utilizes behavioral experiments, formal models, and data from electrophysiology to build theories of the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying linguistic knowledge and...
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Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
My research focuses on understanding the principles governing neuromechanical control of human locomotion and applying this knowledge to promote walking recovery following neurological injury...
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Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
I am interested in the functions and representations of the human prefrontal cortex. I am also interested in reward and motivation mechanisms in the context of social cognition and learning...
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Assistant Professor of Psychology (Relocating to Florida State University, August 2022)
At every waking moment the human brain absorbs information, selectively filters it, and integrates it into perceptions and memories. When presented with the same world, we can effortlessly engage in many different activities depending on our goals...
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
The main goal of our lab is to understand how neural circuits assemble during development and disease. We are particularly interested on the genetic causes and cellular mechanisms related to circuit defects in autism spectrum disorder and epilepsy...
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Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and Psychology
My research program examines age-related changes, sources, and consequences of individual differences in emotion and motivation across the life span in individuals and dyads. My work uses multiple methods (e.g...
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
We are interested in the neuroscience of active sensing behaviors and particularly the sense of touch. We use the rodent whisker (vibrissal) system as a model to gain insight into closed loop sensorimotor control...
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Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Research in my lab is centered on intracellular quality control mediated by autophagy (“self-eating”), a lysosomal degradation pathway induced by stress conditions such as fasting and exercise...
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Professor of Neuroscience
Electrophysiology and computational modeling of spinal sensorimotor neurons and...
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Professor of Neurosurgery
Our laboratory studies the unique immunobiology of CNS tumors that informs our development of immuno-oncology therapeutics...
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Research Assistant Professor of Communication Science and Disorders
I started my research path investigating the neurobiology of auditory processing as a model mechanism of complex biological behavior...
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Professor of Pathology
One of our research focuses is tumor-associated epilepsy. In particular, we seek to understand why gliomas with IDH mutations are more epileptogenic than IDH wild-type gliomas...
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Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Dr. Arun Jayaraman's work primarily focuses on developing and executing both investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored research in prosthetics, orthotics, rehabilitation robotics, and other assistive and adaptive technologies to treat physical...
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Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences
The Dynamic Brain Laboratory investigates the brain dynamics underlying memory and cognitive control across the human lifespan...
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Professor of Neurology
The environment in which an organism resides is never constant and thus appropriate adaptation to changing conditions is required for survival. Cells in metazoans also experience perturbations in their milieu and proper function requires adaptations...
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Professor of Applied Mathematics
Quantitative biological modeling, circadian rhythms, growth and development; computational neuroscience, action potential propagation and dendritic integration in neurons...
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Research in my laboratory is focused on identifying genetic factors that contribute to severe childhood epilepsies and neurodevelopmental disorders...
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
I am a theoretical neuroscientist studying the structure of animal behavior and the neural mechanisms of flexible and adaptive behavior control, using tools from dynamical systems, statistical modeling, and machine learning...
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Davee Professor of Neurology
Our research has focused extensively on the regulation of gene expression by stem/progenitor cells and their differentiated progeny...
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Assistant Professor of Neurology
I am a systems neuroscientist and clinically active neurologist. I lead translational research on the brain networks and dynamic rhythms that support clear thinking, with a commitment to understanding and improving the care of patients with acute...
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Assistant Professor of Neurology
My laboratory harnesses the power of human pluripotent stem cells to study neuronal development as well as to understand how neuronal function is impaired as a result of injury or disease...
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Professor of Neurobiology
Our team pioneers new approaches to neurodegeneration and neurodevelopment. We are known for our theory that neuron damage leading to Alzheimer’s is caused by soluble oligomers of the amyloid β peptide (AβOs), a new type of...
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Associate Professor of Neurology
Dr. Knutson’s research involves clinical or epidemiological studies that focus on the impact of sleep and circadian rhythms on health, broadly speaking...
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Research Professor of Neurology
We are funded by the NIMH to study how long noncoding RNAs regulate enhancer-chromosomal interactions across megabase distances...
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Archibald Church Professor of Neurology and Chief, Division of Neuro-Infectious Diseases and Global Neurology
The laboratory of Igor Koralnik, MD, in the Department of Neurology studies how viruses affect the nervous system...
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology
The Kozorovitskiy lab focuses on two broad, inter-related themes: decoding neuromodulation and neural circuit design principles...
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Professor and Chair of Neurology
The overarching goal of my laboratory has been to define key molecular pathways in the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration...
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Hugh Knowles Professor of Communication Sciences
In her deep examination of sound and the brain, Nina Kraus makes the case for the far-reaching impact of sound, showing how hearing engages how we think, feel, move, and combine our senses...
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Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, McCormick School of Engineering and Surgery
The Neural Engineering Center for Artificial Limbs (NECAL) is a research program at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) based on over 20 years of research...
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Professor of Molecular Biosciences
We study the development and evolution of the vertebrate neural crest which gives rise of most of th peripheral nervous system...
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Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
My research focuses on identifying effective therapeutic interventions for muscle, vasculature, peripheral nerve, and the brain, using adult stem cells and/or their secreted stimulator and protective factors to prevent, ameliorate, or reverse...
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Research Associate Professor of Radiology
Amber Leaver is a neuroscientist using MRI to understand and improve noninvasive brain stimulation technologies...
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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
The taste system evaluates the nutritional value (sweet, umami, salty) and safety (bitter, sour) of food...
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Associate Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology)
Our interdisciplinary research program focuses on understanding pain pathways and the pain experience in patients with systemic rheumatic diseases, particularly rheumatoid arthritis. We are the only group in the U.S...
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Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
The Lerner Lab studies the neural circuit basis of motivation, reward learning, and habit formation. We are particularly interested in how individual variations in dopamine circuit function relate to differences in behavior and neuropsychiatric...
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
My lab utilizes cutting-edge circuit and systems approaches to study how neuropeptidergic circuits mediate valence processing and regulate motivated behaviors...
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Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
The research focus of my lab is on developing and applying computational and high-throughput experimental methods in epigenomics to understand the gene regulation of non-coding genetic variants in different pathological conditions, including brain...
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Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
My research focuses on autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions, with a specific focus on language, communication, and associated abilities, and how such features may span diagnostic boundaries...
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
Genetic, neurometabolic and mitochondrial regulation of neural development and degeneration RNA methylation on N6-adenosine is emerging as a critical regulator of RNA functions and metabolism...
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Professor of Neuroscience
My interest is focused on the hippocampus, which is an area of the brain involved in higher cognitive functions, and is often the target of neurological illnesses like epilepsy, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease...
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Professor of Neuroscience
The lab has three main interests: currently, the main interest of the lab is the identification of the cortical cellular mechanisms (and potential drug targets) that drive the transition from acute to chronic pain...
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Associate Professor of Neurology (Movement Disorders)
The Mazzulli Lab is interested in determining how protein misfolding and amyloid formation results in cell death...
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor MacIver believes that the body’s mechanical intelligence can be just as important, if not more important, than what’s going on in your head...
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Director, Center for Genetic Medicine
We study neuromuscular disorders including those that primarily affect skeletal muscle like the muscular dystrophies...
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Daniela Maria Menichella, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
My laboratory investigates the molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying neuropathic pain in hereditary and acquired peripheral neuropathies with a particular focus on Painful Diabetic Neuropathy...
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Director, Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease - Department of Neurology
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Professor of Neuroscience
The primary goal of the research we do in this lab is to understand the nature of the somatosensory and motor signals within the brain that control our movements...
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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
The patterns of muscle activation that drive movement reflect an interplay between neuronal circuits in the spinal cord and an array of motor system regions...
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Associate Professor of Psychology
I work to examine the intersection between adolescent development and emerging mental illness. The lab examines developmental trajectories, in an effort to understand pathogenesis, develop early identification markers, and build novel treatments...
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Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology
Human lifespan has increased dramatically, and with this is the increased risk for dementia and neurodegenerative diseases...
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Theresa Sukal Moulton, PhD, PT, DPT
Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
The work that I do and collaborate on involves the development of selective motor control over the lifespan for people with spastic cerebral palsy...
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Todd Murphey’s current research focuses on computational methods in dynamics and control and using those methods to investigate biological locomotion and tactile exploration...
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Associate Professor and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, Communication Sciences and Disorders
My research focuses on understanding typical reading and language development as well as developmental and learning disabilities, including dyslexia, developmental language disorder, and autism spectrum disorders...
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Associate Professor of Psychology
My research program uses neuroscientific methods to examine order and disorder in the emotional brain...
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Professor of Neurology
The long-term goal of my laboratory is to understand the cellular basis of neurodegeneration. We are testing the idea that neurodegeneration results from derangements in relatively few but strategic sub-cellular pathways...
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Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
The lab is interested in understanding and developing treatments for the anatomical and functional consequences of spinal cord injury. We have a special interest in the immune response and vascularization after injury and as a therapeutic target...
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Associate Professor of Neurology
Our lab is interested in the biology and pathology of upper motor neurons, the neuron population that displays progressive degeneration in ALS, HSP and PLS patients...
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Professor of Psychology and James Padilla Chair in Arts & Sciences
Human Memory, Perception, and Consciousness; Biological Bases of Mental Phenomena; Sleep and Dreaming; Cognitive...
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Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Our laboratory studies the molecular basis of Parkinson's disease (PD) with a focus on the cellular and molecular pathways dysregulated by PD-linked genes such as α-synuclein and LRRK2...
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Our lab uses state-of-the art tools to image and manipulate circuits related to the dopamine system. We are principally interested in dopamine influences neural coding of spontaneous and motivated behavior, how this process may go awry in...
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Professor of Radiology
The primary focus of the Parrish laboratory is the development and application of neuroimaging methods to better understand human development and physiology...
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Professor of Psychiatry
The Patel Lab’s research program focuses on the role of endocannabinoids in stress-induced neuroadaptation...
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Our goal is to understand how neuroimmune signaling and social factors impact neural circuits and behavior, and if we can harness immune mechanisms to reprogram circuits to treat neuropsychiatric disorders...
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Professor of Neuroscience
Our mission is to uncover the molecular and cellular mechanisms whereby neurons communicate with each other within brain circuits, how they malfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders, and to use this knowledge to develop new therapies for such...
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Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
Dr. Perez is the Scientific Chair of the Arms + Hands Lab at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, a Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University, and a Research Scientist at the Edward Jr. Hines VA Hospital...
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research in our group focuses on understanding the neural and biomechanical factors involved in the normal control of multi-joint movement and posture and how these factors are modified following neuromotor pathologies such as stroke and spinal cord...
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
We are interested in the neurobiological mechanisms underlying cognition, both at the local circuit level and in terms of large-scale interactions between different brain areas...
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Assistant Professor of Neurology
Our laboratory is interested in understanding the cellular mechanisms that govern memory formation through the lenses of calcineurin, the only Ca2+ and calmodulin phosphatase highly conserved from yeast to humans...
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Professor of Neurology
Our research interests include studies designed to uncover fundamental aspects of myelinating glial cell development, the myelination process, as well as the detailed function of the myelin sheath...
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Professor of Pharmacology
Ca2+ is a ubiquitous intracellular signaling messenger regulating a wide range of functions including enzyme activation, gene expression, and neurotransmitter release...
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Research Professor of Radiology
My primary interests concern quantitative neuroimaging technologies, including neurovascular 4D flow MRI and brain network analysis to investigate the impact of viruses (e.g. HIV, Covid) and brain aging...
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Professor of Neurobiology
In the Raman lab, we study specializations of ion channels and synaptic physiology that permit cerebellar neurons—Purkinje neurons, granule cells, inhibitory interneurons, and output neurons of the cerebellar nuclei—to facilitate...
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Professor of Psychology
We study the cognitive neuroscience of learning in memory with complex cognitive tasks. Our approach is grounded in memory systems theory that reflects the operations of different mechanisms of memory within and independent of the medial temporal...
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Adrian Rodriguez-Contreras, PhD
Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
A main focus of the lab is in elucidating mechanisms of physiological and pathological responses to oxygen shortage in the newborn brain...
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
We study the neural dynamics of stress and aversive learning, how these processes are modulated by the opioid system, and how they interact with the pursuit of rewards...
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Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Dr. Sanchez’s laboratory investigates the development of time-coding mechanisms in the auditory brainstem using electrophysiological and anatomical approaches. His primary interests are in synaptic transmission and ion channel function...
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Assistant Professor of Neurology
The overarching goal of our research group is to determine how protein mishandling contributes to synaptic dysfunction, neurodegeneration, and aging. As a starting point we use biochemistry with mass spectrometry-based proteomics. 1...
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Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Our lab studies the role of light in behavior by linking the cellular function of cells within the retina to their downstream circuits in the brain and output behavior. To do this, we examine the role of RGC subtypes in specific visual functions...
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Associate Professor of Ophthalmologyy
Research in our lab focuses on the circuit mechanisms underlying sensory computation. We use the mouse retina as a model system because it allows us to stimulate the circuit precisely with its natural input, patterns of light, and record its natural...
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Yuta Senzai, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience (Starting Jan 2025)
How does our brain generate vivid dream perception internally, while disconnected from the external world during sleep? Answering this question will provide clues to the nature of our internal generative model of the world, which is also crucial for...
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Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Shankman’s research focuses on the relation between depression and anxiety disorders (i.e., internalizing psychopathologies), with an emphasis on neurobehavioral processes that are common vs. specific emotional between the two...
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Professor of Neuroscience
How do we move? Our lab is interested in understanding the organization of cell-type-specific circuits in the motor system, focusing on mouse motor cortex and its long-range input and output connections with other motor circuits, via corticospinal,...
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Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor of Chemistry
My group designs and synthesizes inhibitors of enzymes (neuronal nitric oxide synthase and GABA aminotransferase) important to the treatment of neurodegenerative (Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cerebral palsy) and neurological (epilepsy, neuropathic...
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Professor of Neurology
The goal of our research is to help people with neurologic impairment from disorders such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, or ALS to recover motor or speech function. Our research centers around using neural prosthetics, i.e...
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Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
We study how electrical activity shapes brain development during the gestational period, and how neurodevelopmental diseases associated with ion channel dysfunction can change the structure of the brain in children...
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Professor of Neuroscience
Sara A. Solla is a theoretical physicist who works in theoretical and computational neuroscience. Her research uses tools from statistical physics, statistical inference, information theory, machine learning, and dynamical systems to investigate...
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Professor and Chair of Department of Neuroscience
I direct a research program focusing on molecular, cellular and network mechanisms governing the basal ganglia in health and disease states...
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Professor of Psychology
My research goal is to understand how internal neural dynamics are structured to facilitate productive interactions with environmental dynamics, using EEG time-series analyses, behavioral methods, and mathematical reasoning...
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Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pharmacology
We study the molecular and physiological properties of receptor proteins that underlie excitatory synaptic transmission in the mammalian brain...
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Ralph and Jean Sundin Professor of Communication Sciences
Dr. Thompson's research in cognitive neuroscience focuses on the neural mechanisms of language, primarily sentence processing, in cognitively healthy and aphasic individuals...
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Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
The focus of the lab is to identify novel peripheral organ signaling pathways and determine how they influence behaviors such as sleep and substance use disorder...
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering
We examine the neural control of movement, focusing on the role of spinal circuitry. We use an interdisciplinary approach in this research, using a combination of behavioral, biomechanical, and neurophysiological techniques...
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Professor of Neurobiology
Research in the Turek laboratory is focused on the study of sleep and circadian rhythms, with special interest in identifying genes that regulate sleep and circadian rhythms...
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Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences and Neuroscience
The goal of our lab is to enhance functional recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI). Our approach to SCI research uses animal models to identify changes that occur within the spinal cord after injury...
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Director of Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease, Professor of Behavioral Neurology and Cell & Developmental Biology
We study the molecular and cellular mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease with the goal of contributing to the discovery of effective disease-modifying therapies...
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Research Professor of Neurobiology
My primary research focus is on the genetics of sleep and circadian rhythms. This has included the functional identification of core mammalian circadian clock genes, Clock, Cry1, and Cry2. The original Clock mutant mouse (Vitaterna et al...
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Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Age-related neurodegenerative brain diseases that affect cognition and behavior are the focus of my work. Large-scale neuroanatomical networks such as those that support language can be selectively targeted by disease...
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Research Professor of Otolaryngology
The main focus of this group is to screen for drug/chemicals that protect or repair hearing and to move them to the clinic...
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Assistant Professor of Neurology
Our lab’s goal is to investigate organelle dynamics such as mitochondria and lysosomes to elucidate new pathways in neuronal and cell biology, and diseases including neurodegeneration...
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Professor of Neurobiology
Our research focuses on steroid regulation of synaptic structure and function and the consequences of steroid-driven synaptic modulation for behavior...
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Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Perceptual learning: Performance on perceptual tasks improves with practice, indicating that our sensory systems are not rigid but rather can be changed through experience...
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Associate Professor of Radiology
My research focuses on developing novel neuroimaging MRI techniques to study brain function and hemodynamics...
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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Large numbers of genes turn on and off in temporally and spatially precise patterns in the brain to regulate neural circuit development and refinement...
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Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
I have a keen interest in employing multi-modality brain imaging and quantitative methodologies to investigate the neuromechanisms that underlie motor control and movement disorders resulting from nervous system injuries...
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Benjamin and Virginia T. Boshes Professor of Neurology
My research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that link alterations in sleep, circadian rhythms and sleep disorders with neurological and cardio-metabolic disorders, as well as the development of treatments for sleep and circadian based...
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Assistant Professor Neurology
My lab studies the human olfactory system. More specifically, we study the impact of natural respiratory rhythms on brain activity and behavior, olfactory networks, olfactory attention and memory, primary olfactory cortical areas including...
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Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Deafness is the common sensory defect affecting millions of people. Causes of deafness are often associated with defects in outer hair cells (OHCs). We aim to identify and investigate molecules that play essential roles in mammalian hearing...
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Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Our laboratory investigates the structure and function of neural circuits responsible for processing visual information in the mammalian retina...
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
The discovery of interventions for cocaine and methamphetamine substance use disorders (SUDs) continues to be a strategic priority of the National Institute on Drug Abuse...
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