Neurosciences
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Directors, Neurosciences Graduate Program
Timothy Gentner, PhD, Psychology
Gentry Patrick, PhD, Associate Director, Biology
Professors
Henry Abarbanel, PhD, Physics
Thomas Albright, PhD, Adjunct/Psychology and Neurosciences
Adam Aron, PhD, Psychology
Ursula Bellugi, EdD, Adjunct/Psychology
Darwin K. Berg, PhD, Biology-Neurobiology Section
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
Andrew Chisolm, PhD, Biology
Jerold Chun, MD, PhD, Adjunct/Pharmacology
Robert Clark, PhD, In Residence/Psychiatry
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
Jeffrey L. Elman, PhD, Cognitive Science
Mark H. Ellisman, PhD, Neurosciences
Edmund J. Fantino, PhD, Psychology
Fred H. Gage, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences and Biology
Douglas R. Galasko, MD, In Residence/Neurosciences
Timothy Gentner, PhD, Program Director, Psychology
Mark A. Geyer, PhD, In Residence/Psychiatry and Adjunct/Neurosciences
Anirvan Ghosh, PhD, Biology
Joseph G. Gleeson, MD, Neurosciences
Lawrence S. B. Goldstein, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Eric Halgren, PhD, Radiology
Shelley Halpain, PhD, Biology
Bruce A. Hamilton, PhD, Medicine
Steven A. Hillyard, PhD, Neurosciences and Adjunct/Psychology
Vivian Y. H. Hook, PhD, Pharmacology
Paul A. Insel, MD, Pharmacology and Medicine
Jeffry S. Isaacson, PhD, Neurosciences
Yishi Jin, PhD, Biology
Michael W. Kalichman, PhD, Adjunct/Pathology
Harvey J. Karten, MD, Neurosciences and Psychiatry
John Kelsoe, MD, Psychiatry
David Kleinfeld, PhD, Physics
Edward Koo, MD, Neurosciences
William B. Kristan, PhD, Biology and Adjunct/Neurosciences
Marta Kutas, PhD, Cognitive Science and Adjunct/Neurosciences
Albert La Spada, MD, PhD, Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Greg Lemke, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
John Liu, PhD, Adjunct/Ophthalmology
Eduardo Macagno, PhD, Biology
Roberto Malinow, PhD, Professor/Neurosciences
Athina Markou, PhD, In Residence/Psychiatry
Maryann Martone, PhD, In Residence/Neurosciences
Eliezer Masliah, MD, Neurosciences and Pathology
Pamela Mellon, PhD, Neurosciences and Reproductive Medicine
William C. Mobley, MD, PhD, Department Chair, Neurosciences
Ulrich Mueller, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Jeffrey Neul, MD, Neurosciences
R. Glenn Northcutt, PhD, Neurosciences
Dennis O’Leary, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences and Biology
Martin Paulus, MD, In Residence/Psychiatry
Samuel Pfaff, PhD, Adjunct/Neurobiology
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, MD, Psychology
Barbara Ranscht, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Michael G. Rosenfeld, MD, Medicine
Allen F. Ryan, PhD, Surgery and Adjunct/Neurosciences
David P. Salmon, PhD, In Residence/Neurosciences
Nicholas Schork, PhD, Adjunct/Psychiatry
Gary Schulteis, PhD, In Residence/Anesthesiology
Terrence J. Sejnowski, PhD, Biology-Neurobiology Section and Adjunct/Neurosciences, Cognitive Science, Computer Science and Engineering, and Physics
Linda Sorkin, PhD, Anesthesiology
Nicholas C. Spitzer, PhD, Biology-Neurobiology Section
Larry R. Squire, PhD, Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurosciences
Charles Stevens, MD, PhD, Adjunct/Pharmacology
Neal Swerdlow, MD, PhD, Psychiatry
Palmer W. Taylor, PhD, Pharmacology
Doris A. Trauner, MD, Neurosciences and Pediatrics
Roger Tsien, PhD, Pharmacology, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD, Neurosciences
Ajit Varki, MD, Medicine
Jing Wang, PhD, Biological Sciences
Miles Wilkinson, PhD, Reproductive Medicine
Yimin Zou, PhD, Biology
Associate Professors
Stephan Anagnostaras, PhD, Psychology
Kristin Baldwin, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Clark Chen, MD, PhD, Surgery
Andrea Chiba, PhD, Cognitive Science
Todd Coleman, PhD, Bioengineering
Virginia de Sa, PhD, Cognitive Science
Anna Devor, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Laura L. Dugan, MD, PhD, Medicine
Stephanie Dulawa, PhD, Psychiatry
Pascal Gagneux, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Donna Gruol, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Jill Leutgeb PhD, Biology
Stefan Leutgeb, PhD, Biology
Douglas Nitz, PhD, Cognitive Science
Gentry N. Patrick, PhD, Associate Program Director, Biological Sciences
Jaime Pineda, PhD, Cognitive Science
Pam Reinagel, PhD, Biology
John Reynolds, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Victoria Risbrough, PhD, Psychiatry
Marisa Roberto, PhD, Neurosciences
Katerina Semendeferi, PhD, Anthropology
John Serences, PhD, Psychology
Gabriel A. Silva, PhD, Bioengineering
Lisa Stowers, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Jared Young, PhD, Psychiatry
Yu, PhD, Cognitive Sciences
Binhai Zheng, PhD, Neurosciences
Eric Zorrilla, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Assistant Professors
Nicola Allen, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Brenda Bloodgood, PhD, Biology
Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
Richard Daneman, PhD, Pharmacology
Daniel Gibbs, PhD, Neurosciences
Vikash Gilja, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Xin Jin, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
William Joiner, PhD, Pharmacology
Alexander Sasha Kauffman, PhD, Reproductive Medicine
Takaki Komiyama, PhD, Neurosciences
Kuo-Fen Lee, PhD, Adjunct/Biology
Jonathan Lin, PhD, Pathology
Byuongkook Lim, PhD, Biology
Chitra Mandyam, PhD, Adjunct, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mark Mayford, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Cory Miller, PhD, Psychology
Eran Mukamel, PhD, Cogntive Sciences
Alysson Muotri, PhD, Pediatrics, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Saket Navlakha, PhD, Adjunct
Ardem Patapoutian, PhD, Cell Biology
Robert Rissman, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences
Subhojit Roy, MD, PhD, Neurosciences
Ayse Saygin, PhD, Cognitive Science
Tatyana Sharpee, PhD, Adjunct/Physics
Chi-ying Su, PhD, Biology
Michael A. Taffe, PhD, Neuropharmacology
Bradley Voytek, PhD, Cognitive Sciences