Neurosciences
Neuroscience research at UNM-HSC is comprised of laboratory
investigations in the fundamental areas of neuroscience, as well as clinical
and translational research among the Departments of Neurosciences, Neurology,
Psychiatry and Psychology. Molecular genetics, neurophysiology and cell
biology approaches are applied to research questions concerning Learning
and Memory, Addiction, Brain Injury and Repair, and Psychiatric disorders.
In addition, new efforts to coordinate basic and clinical neuroscience
research have emerged in association with state-of-the-art functional
brain imaging facilities of the MIND (Mental Illness and Neuroscience
Discovery) Imaging Center and the BRaIN (Biomedical Research and Integrative
Neuroscience) Institute.
Andrea Allan, PhD
Prenatal drug and environmental exposure models; neural control of cognition;
learning and memory
Janet
Benson, PhD/DABT
Toxicological evaluations of single compounds and complex mixtures of
occupational and environmental concern
Oscar Bizzozero,
PhD
Molecular mechanisms of tissue injury in multiple sclerosis and other
demyelinating disorders
Kevin Caldwell,
PhD
Signal transduction mechanisms underlying learning and memory
John Connor, PhD
Ca2+ and related second control of normal and degenerative responses in
brain neurons
Lee Anna Cunningham,
PhD
Mechanisms of cell death, plasticity and repair in Parkinson's disease
and stroke
Dusanka Deretic,
PhD
Biosynthesis, sorting and post-Golgi trafficking of rhodopsin to the rod
outer segments (ROS)
Jim Liu,
PhD
Free radical and oxidative stress in disease development, including carcinogenesis
and brain injury.
L. Donald Partridge,
PhD
Electophysiology and calcium imaging
Nora Perrone-Bizzozero,
PhD
Gene expression control during brain development; synaptic plasticity
and neurodevelopmental disorders
Steven
Peterson, PhD
Mechanisms of neuropathology in experimental models of seizures and epilepsy
Tom Resta, PhD
Mechanisms of chronic hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension.
Linda Saland, PhD
The effects of ethanol on brain opiate receptor expression and function
Daniel Savage, PhD
Impact of ethanol and other environmental stressors on brain development
and function
C. William Shuttleworth,
PhD
Mechanisms underlying degenerative calcium signaling in central neurons
James Wallace, PhD
The role of neurotransmitters in regulating neural stem cell development
and differentiation
Michael Wilson, PhD
Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmission and its impact on brain development
and behavioral
maturation
Xinyu Zhao, PhD
To understand molecular regulations of postnatal neurogenesis and neuronal
maturation for brain repair
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