23 faculty and 2 courses in Neuroscience at Loyola University Chicago.
- Norberto Grzywacz, Professor h-index 37
Our current research interests are on the Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience of aesthetic emotions. Thus, the inquiries in our lab revolve around why people experience certain visual scenes and auditory pieces as beautiful or ug
Notable: “A computational theory for the perception of coherent visual motion” (1988) · 214 citations
- Hui Ye, Associate Professor h-index 29
Our lab is interested in understanding the interactions between electromagnetic waves and neurons. More specifically, we investigate the biophysical and neurological mechanisms underlying electromagnetic stimulation to the nervous system, b
Notable: “Transcriptomic dissection of tongue squamous cell carcinoma” (2008) · 344 citations
- Yanan Chen, Assistant Professor h-index 25
Glial biology, neuroscience
Notable: “CNS fibroblasts form a fibrotic scar in response to immune cell infiltration” (2021) · 206 citations
- Robert Morrison, Associate Professor h-index 23
I am interested in understanding how humans think. Questions of interest include: How does the brain recognize and use structure in information (e.g. analogical reasoning) and how is this impacted by differences in cognitive control
Notable: “Children’s development of analogical reasoning: Insights from scene analogy problems” (2006) · 430 citations
- Tatiana Esipova, Assistant Professor h-index 21
We are a multidisciplinary research group, working at the intersection of synthetic organic chemistry, biochemistry, photophysics, nanotechnology and biomedical imaging. Our main focus is the development of optical probes for visualizing an
Notable: “Correlation Between Intraluminal Oxygen Gradient and Radial Partitioning of Intestinal Microbiota” (2014) · 881 citations
- Rebecca Silton, Associate Professor h-index 21
The WELL lab program of research is guided by a salutogenesis framework that guides
Notable: “The neuroscience of positive emotions and affect: Implications for cultivating happiness and wellbeing” (2020) · 297 citations
- Wei-Ming Yu, Associate Professor h-index 20
My lab is broadly interested in neural circuit development and how disease or injury affects circuit structure and function. Changes in auditory circuits often underlie hearing disorders, which are among the most common human sensory
Notable: “Peripheral Regeneration” (2007) · 754 citations
- Daniel Cavanaugh, Associate Professor h-index 19
To ensure optimal survival, organisms have evolved an endogenous timing mechanism, called the circadian system, which allows them to anticipate and adapt to the daily cycles of light and temperature caused by the rotation of the Earth on it
Notable: “Distinct subsets of unmyelinated primary sensory fibers mediate behavioral responses to noxious thermal and mechanical stimuli” (2009) · 689 citations
- George Thiruvathukal, Professor h-index 17
Ed on higher-level approaches to concurrent, parallel, and distributed programming with an emphasis on models, languages, libraries, middleware, tools, and software engineering techniques. The culmination of this research was a book in Sun
Notable: “Wide-area implementation of the Message Passing Interface” (1998) · 91 citations
- Stephan Steidl, Associate Professor h-index 15
My research is generally concerned with understanding brain systems that contribute to appetitively motivated behaviors. It is well established that the dopamine system is important in motivation and reward, but much remains to be learned a
Notable: “Midbrain pathways for prepulse inhibition and startle activation in rat” (2006) · 90 citations
- Nicholas Baker, Assistant Professor h-index 14
My research, I study how the mind perceives and recognizes shapes and objects from visual inputs. Inspired by classic work by the Gestalt psychologists, one of the central themes of my research is that abstract relations are more importa
Notable: “Deep convolutional networks do not classify based on global object shape” (2018) · 373 citations
- Stephanie Grella, Assistant Professor h-index 14
My research is focused on the mechanisms by which memories change across time and how they are updated to incorporate new information. Memories are stored in the brain as cellular ensembles activated during learning and then reactivated dur
Notable: “Artificially Enhancing and Suppressing Hippocampus-Mediated Memories” (2019) · 122 citations
- Jary Delgado, Assistant Professor h-index 12
All animals use their brains and sensory organs to learn about the
Notable: “m6A facilitates hippocampus-dependent learning and memory through YTHDF1” (2018) · 564 citations
- Elizabeth Wakefield, Associate Professor h-index 12
Notable: “Gesture helps learners learn, but not merely by guiding their visual attention” (2018) · 103 citations
- Vincent Chen, Assistant Professor h-index 9
Student Engagement Student Projects Study Abroad Engineering and Honors Engineering and Pre-Med Program Details Academic Regulations Academic Misconduct Program Educational Objectives Student Outcomes Transfer Students ABET Accreditation FA
Notable: “Effects of 8-week sensory electrical stimulation combined with motor training on EEG-EMG coherence and motor function in individuals with stroke” (2018) · 74 citations
- Joseph Vukov, Associate Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Personhood and Natural Kinds: Why Cognitive Status Need Not Affect Moral Status” (2017) · 12 citations
- Anne Sutter, Professor Emerita
My research, I use what is known about the basics of visual processing to figure out how the brain might go about perceiving objects in the world. I am particularly interested in the way texture information is used by the visual system.
- Eric Gobel, Co-Director Cognitive/Behavioral Neuroscience; Advanced Lecturer
My research focuses broadly on the psychology and neuroscience of memory: how the brain stores information by adaptively changing as a result of experience (neuroplasticity), with the potential to influence future behavior. More speci
- Jason Pych, Lecturer
- Margaret Guy, Associate Professor
- Steve Logan, Lecturer
- Toby Dye, Associate Professor
- William Rochlin, Co-Director Molecular/Cellular Neuroscience; Associate Professor
Axons follow predictable and highly circumscribed paths from the time they begin their journey during development to the time they synapse upon their targets. However, if neurons are dissected from an animal and allowed to extend axons in a
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.