Neuroscience at Georgetown University

34 faculty and 0 courses in Neuroscience at Georgetown University.

Faculty

• Joshua Corbin, Associate Professor, Center for Neuroscience Research h-index 93
• Josef P. Rauschecker, Professor, Neuroscience h-index 75
  Notable: “Maps and streams in the auditory cortex: nonhuman primates illuminate human speech processing” (2009) · 1,794 citations
• G. William Rebeck, Professor, Department of Neuroscience h-index 75
• Abigail Marsh, Professor, Psychology h-index 49
  Notable: “Reduced Amygdala Response to Fearful Expressions in Children and Adolescents With Callous-Unemotional Traits and Disruptive Behavior Disorders” (2008) · 862 citations
• Italo Mocchetti, Professor, Neuroscience h-index 48
  Notable: “Expression of c-kit Receptor and its Autophosphorylation in Immature Rat Type A Spermatogonia1” (1995) · 204 citations
• Peter Turkeltaub, Professor, Neurology h-index 47
  Notable: “Meta-Analysis of the Functional Neuroanatomy of Single-Word Reading: Method and Validation” (2002) · 1,624 citations
• Guinevere Eden, Professor, Pediatrics h-index 45
  Notable: “Meta-Analysis of the Functional Neuroanatomy of Single-Word Reading: Method and Validation” (2002) · 1,624 citations
• Charbel Moussa, Associate Professor, Neurology h-index 42
  Notable: “Resveratrol regulates neuro-inflammation and induces adaptive immunity in Alzheimer’s disease” (2017) · 693 citations
• Katherine Conant, Professor, Neuroscience h-index 40
  Notable: “Induction of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in HIV-1 Tat-stimulated astrocytes and elevation in AIDS dementia” (1998) · 578 citations
• Gerard Ahern, Professor, Pharmacology and Physiology h-index 38
• Daniel Pak, Professor, Pharmacology and Physiology h-index 37
  Notable: “A transcriptionally active DNA-binding site for human p53 protein complexes.” (1992) · 721 citations
• Mark P. Burns, Professor, Neuroscience h-index 33
  Notable: “Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 by lithium correlates with reduced tauopathy and degeneration in vivo” (2005) · 697 citations
• Patrick A. Forcelli, Professor, Pharmacology and Physiology h-index 33
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  Notable: “Commonalities in epileptogenic processes from different acute brain insults: Do they translate?” (2017) · 280 citations
• Xiong Jiang, Associate Professor, Neuroscience h-index 33
  Notable: “Evidence for Highly Selective Neuronal Tuning to Whole Words in the “Visual Word Form Area”” (2009) · 301 citations
• Maximilian Riesenhuber, Professor, Neuroscience h-index 31
  Notable: “Hierarchical models of object recognition in cortex” (1999) · 3,407 citations
• Ian Lyons, Assistant Professor, Psychology h-index 31
  Notable: “Numerical predictors of arithmetic success in grades 1–6” (2014) · 416 citations
• Adam Green, Associate Professor, Psychology h-index 31
  Notable: “Individual Differences in Delay Discounting” (2008) · 455 citations
• Ludise Malkova, Professor, Pharmacology h-index 30
  Notable: “Excitotoxic Lesions of the Amygdala Fail to Produce Impairment in Visual Learning for Auditory Secondary Reinforcement But Interfere with Reinforcer Devaluation Effects in Rhesus Monkeys” (1997) · 303 citations
• Nady Golestaneh, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology, Neurology, Biochemistry h-index 25
• Ella Striem-Amit, Associate Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “Reading with Sounds: Sensory Substitution Selectively Activates the Visual Word Form Area in the Blind” (2012) · 305 citations
• Anna Greenwald, Research Assistant Professor h-index 18
  Notable: “The neural basis of language development: Changes in lateralization over age” (2020) · 247 citations
• Hong-Yuan Chu, Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Physiology h-index 18
  Notable: “Recent Development in Studies of Tetrahydroprotoberberines: Mechanism in Antinociception and Drug Addiction” (2007) · 141 citations
• Rhonda Dzakpasu, Associate Professor, Physics and Pharmacology h-index 15
  Notable: “Transition from local to global phase synchrony in small world neural network and its possible implications for epilepsy” (2005) · 147 citations
• Tinatin I. Brelidze, Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Physiology h-index 14
• Rebekah Evans, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience h-index 13
  Notable: “Functional Dissection of Basal Ganglia Inhibitory Inputs onto Substantia Nigra Dopaminergic Neurons” (2020) · 128 citations
• Alexey Ostroumov, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Physiology h-index 12
  Notable: “Nicotine Decreases Ethanol-Induced Dopamine Signaling and Increases Self-Administration via Stress Hormones” (2013) · 106 citations
• Joan Orpella, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience h-index 10
  Notable: “Spontaneous synchronization to speech reveals neural mechanisms facilitating language learning” (2019) · 204 citations
• Tina Liu, Assistant Professor, Neurology h-index 10
  Notable: “Successful Reorganization of Category-Selective Visual Cortex following Occipito-temporal Lobectomy in Childhood” (2018) · 42 citations
• Andrew DeMarco, Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
• Casey Brown, Assistant Professor, Psychology
• Elissa L. Newport, Professor of Neurology, Director of CBPR
• Priyanka Joshi, Assistant Professor, Biology
• Rachel Barr, Professor, Psychology
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• Rhonda B. Friedman, Professor, Neurology

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.