Neurosciences

All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.

Directors, Neurosciences Graduate Program

Timothy Gentner, PhD, Director, Psychology and Biology

Gentry Patrick, PhD, Associate Director, Biology

Professors

Henry Abarbanel, PhD, Physics

Susan Ackerman, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Thomas Albright, PhD, Adjunct/Psychology and Neurosciences

Adam Aron, PhD, Psychology

Maksim Bazhenov, PhD, Medicine

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

Andrea Chiba, PhD, Cognitive Science

Andrew Chisolm, PhD, Biology

Jerold Chun, MD, PhD, Adjunct/Pharmacology

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

Ralph Greenspan, PhD, Biology

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

Stefan Leutgeb, PhD, Biology

John Liu, PhD, Adjunct/Ophthalmology

Eduardo Macagno, PhD, Biology

Roberto Malinow, PhD, Professor/Neurosciences

Maryann Martone, PhD, In Residence/Neurosciences

Eliezer Masliah, MD, Neurosciences and Pathology

Mark Mayford, PhD, Psychiatry

Pamela Mellon, PhD, Neurosciences and Reproductive Medicine

William C. Mobley, MD, PhD, Neurosciences

Ulrich Mueller, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences

Dennis O’Leary, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences and Biology

Abraham Palmer, PhD, Psychiatry

Gentry N. Patrick, PhD, Associate Program Director, Biological Sciences

Paulus, MD, In Residence/Psychiatry

Samuel Pfaff, PhD, Adjunct/Neurobiology

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, MD, Psychology

Barbara Ranscht, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences

John Ravits, MD, PhD, Neurosciences

Victoria Risbrough, PhD, Psychiatry

Marisa Roberto, 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 and Adjunct/Neurosciences, Cognitive Science, Computer Science and Engineering, and Physics

Katerina Semendeferi, PhD, Anthropology

John Serences, PhD, Psychology

Gabriel A. Silva, PhD, Bioengineering

Linda Sorkin, PhD, Anesthesiology

Nicholas C. Spitzer, PhD, Biology

Larry R. Squire, PhD, Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurosciences

Charles Stevens, MD, PhD, Adjunct/Pharmacology

Lisa Stowers, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences

Neal Swerdlow, MD, PhD, Psychiatry

Palmer W. Taylor, PhD, Pharmacology

Doris A. Trauner, MD, Neurosciences and Pediatrics

Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD, Neurosciences

Ajit Varki, MD, Medicine

Jing Wang, PhD, Biological Sciences

Miles Wilkinson, PhD, Reproductive Medicine

Binhai Zheng, PhD, Neurosciences

Yimin Zou, PhD, Biology

Associate Professors

Stephan Anagnostaras, PhD, Psychology

Kristin Baldwin, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences

Jack Bui, MD, PhD, Pathology

Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD, Adjunct/Biology

Clark Chen, MD, PhD, Surgery

Todd Coleman, PhD, Bioengineering

Virginia de Sa, PhD, Cognitive Science

Anna Devor, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences

Stephanie Dulawa, PhD, Psychiatry

Pascal Gagneux, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Donna Gruol, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences

Takaki Komiyama, PhD, Neurosciences

Jill Leutgeb PhD, Biology

Jonathan Lin, PhD, Pathology

Chitra Mandyam, PhD, Adjunct/Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Douglas Nitz, PhD, Cognitive Science

Jaime Pineda, PhD, Cognitive Science

Pam Reinagel, PhD, Biology

John Reynolds, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences

Robert Rissman, PhD, Neurosciences

Ayse Saygin, PhD, Cognitive Science

David Welsh, MD, PhD, Psychiatry

Jared Young, PhD, Psychiatry

Angela Yu PhD, Cognitive Science

Eric Zorrilla, PhD, Adjunct/Neurosciences

Assistant Professors

Nicola Allen, PhD, Adjunct/Biology

Kenta Asahina, PhD, Adjunct/Biology

Matthew Banghart, PhD, Biology

Brenda Bloodgood, PhD, Biology

Richard Daneman, PhD, Pharmacology

Daniel Gibbs, PhD, Neurosciences

Vikash Gilja, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Christina Gremel, PhD, Psychology

Sung Han, PhD, Adjunct/Biology

Hnasko, PhD, Neurosciences

Xin Jin, PhD, Adjunct/Biology

William Joiner, PhD, Pharmacology

Alexander Sasha Kauffman, PhD, Reproductive Medicine

Kuo-Fen Lee, PhD, Adjunct/Biology

Byungkook Lim, PhD, Biology

Giordano Lippi, PhD, Adjunct/Biology

Cory Miller, PhD, Psychology

Eran Mukamel, PhD, Cogntive Sciences

Alysson Muotri, PhD, Pediatrics, Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Saket Navlakha, PhD, Adjunct/Computer Science and Engineering

Axel Nimmerjahn, PhD, Adjunct/Biology

Ardem Patapoutian, PhD, Cell Biology

Gulcin Pekkurnaz, PhD, Biology

Lara Rangel, PhD, Cognitive Sciences

Cory Root, PhD, Biology

Tatyana Sharpee, PhD, Adjunct/Physics

Viola Stoermer, PhD, Psychology

Chi-Ying Su, PhD, Biology

Francesca Telese, PhD, Medicine

Bradley Voytek, PhD, Cognitive Sciences

Amir Zarrinpar, MD, PhD, Medicine