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The UT Health Science Center Neuroscience Program Faculty Advisors

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Jaroslaw A. Aronowski, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurology
----------Neurobiology of Stroke

Douglas A. Baxter, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Cellular and Network Processes Underlying Behavior and Behavioral Plasticity

Andrew Bean, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Mechanisms of Vesicle Trafficking and Neurotransmitter Release

Michael Beierlein , Ph.D.
    Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
         Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity in Neocortical Networks

John H. Byrne, Ph.D.
-----Chairman, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Neural and Molecular Bases of Simple Forms of Memory

Louvenia Carter-Dawson, Ph.D.
-----Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
----------Cell Biology of Retinal Cells

Richard Clark, Ph.D.
-----Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
----------Desensitization of ß2-Adrenergic Receptors

Leonard J. Cleary, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Morphological Correlates of Learning and Memory

Terry J. Crow, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Cellular and Molecular Analysis of Associative Learning

Nachum Dafny, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Neurophysiology and Neurobehavior of Psychostimulants, Drugs of Abuse and Pain

Pramod K. Dash, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Mechanisms of Long-Term Memory Storage

Patrick M. Dougherty, Ph.D.
-----Department of Symptom Research
----------Spinal Dorsal Horn Physiology and Pharmacology

Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D.
----
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
-------- Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Behavior

Daniel J. Felleman, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Organization, Function and Plasticity of Primate Cerebral Cortex

Raymond J. Grill, Ph.D.

   Department of Neurosurgery

       Acute and Chronic Models of Spinal Cord Injury

Howard B. Gutstein, M.D.
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Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
----------Proteomic Approaches to Pain, Opioid Tolerance and Drug Addiction

Ruth Heidelberger, M.D., Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Presynaptic Physiology and the Regulation of Neurotransmitter Release

Roger Janz, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Analysis of the Function of Synaptic Vesicle Proteins by Genetic Methods

Vasanthi Jayaraman, Ph.D.
     Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
         Neurotransmitter Receptors: their Structure, Function and Control

James J. Knierim, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Neural Network Mechanisms of Learning in the Hippocampus

Katherine A. Loveland, Ph.D.

-----Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
----------Developmental Neuropsychology; Autism; and Developmental Disorders

Yin Liu , Ph.D.
      Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
          Computational Biology and BioInformatics

David W. Marshak, Ph.D.

-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Structure and Function of Primate Retina

Stephen Massey, Ph.D.
-----Research Director, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
----------Neuronal Circuits in the Retina

Richard A. Meisch, M.D., Ph.D.
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
       
Neuropharmacology of Drug Reinforcement

Stephen L. Mills, Ph.D.
-----Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
----------Signaling in Parallel Visual Pathways

Frederick G. Moeller, M.D.
-----Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
----------Role of Serotonin in Human Behavior

Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.
    Chairman, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
        Cell Signaling with Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP

Ponnada A. Narayana, Ph.D.
----Department of Radiology
----------Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
----------of Central Nervous System Disorders with an Emphasis on Spinal Cord Injury
----------and Multiple Sclerosis; Image Analysis and Morphometry

John O'Brien, Ph.D.
-----Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
----------Regulation and Plasticity of Electrical Synapses

Zhizhong Z. Pan, Ph.D.
-----Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
----------Mechanisms of Opioid Analgesia and Opioid Addiction

Sozos C. Papasozomenos, M.D.
-----Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
-----    Tau Protein; Alzheimer’s Disease; Heat Shock; Phosphorylation; Neuroendocrinology

Deborah A. Pearson, Ph.D.
-----Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
-----     Cognitive and Behavioral Studies of Developmental Psychopathology; Neuroimaging,
----------and Medication Treatment Studies with Children and Adolescents

Agnes Schonbrunn, Ph.D.
-----Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
----------Membrane Receptor Signaling and Regulation

Anne B. Sereno, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Attention and Memory: Primate Neurophysiology and Human Behavior

Harel Shouval, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Theoretical Neuroscience; Synaptic Plasticity; Development; Learning and Memory

Edgar T. Walters, Ph.D.
-----Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
----------Neuronal Injury; Memory and Learning

Steven W. Wang, Ph.D.
----
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science

          Molecular Regulation of Neural Cell Type Differentiation

 

Jack C. Waymire, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Plasticity of Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis

M. Neal Waxham, Ph.D. (Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program)
-----
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Molecules Responsible for the Formation and Storage of Memories

Anthony A. Wright, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Learning and Memory with Human and Non-Human Animals

 


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