Neuroscience at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

37 faculty and 0 courses in Neuroscience at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Faculty

• Apostolos Georgopoulos, Regents Professor h-index 65
  Notable: “Neuronal Population Coding of Movement Direction” (1986) · 3,218 citations
• Paul Letourneau, Professor Emeritus h-index 65
• Robert Elde, Professor Emeritus h-index 62
• Timothy Ebner, Professor h-index 62
  Notable: “Bidirectional expression of CUG and CAG expansion transcripts and intranuclear polyglutamine inclusions in spinocerebellar ataxia type 8” (2006) · 423 citations
• Alfonso Araque, Professor h-index 60
  Notable: “Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions” (2021) · 2,376 citations
• Paul Mermelstein, Department Chair, Professor h-index 58
• Richard Betzel, Associate Professor h-index 51
  Notable: “Modular Brain Networks” (2015) · 1,487 citations
• Paulo Kofuji, Associate Professor h-index 47
  Notable: “Potassium buffering in the central nervous system” (2004) · 836 citations
• Glenn Giesler, Professor Emeritus h-index 43
  Notable: “Differential origins of spinothalamic tract projections to medial and lateral thalamus in the rat” (1979) · 318 citations
• Janet Dubinsky, Professor Emeritus h-index 37
  Notable: “Calcium‐induced Cytochrome c release from CNS mitochondria is associated with the permeability transition and rupture of the outer membrane” (2002) · 248 citations
• James Ashe, Adjunct Professor h-index 34
  Notable: “Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Motor Cortex: Hemispheric Asymmetry and Handedness” (1993) · 994 citations
• Matthew Chafee, Professor h-index 28
  Notable: “Prefrontal neuronal activity in rhesus monkeys performing a delayed anti-saccade task” (1993) · 689 citations
• Lisa James, Adjunct Associate Professor h-index 27
• Esther Krook-Magnuson, Professor h-index 25
  Notable: “On-demand optogenetic control of spontaneous seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy” (2013) · 642 citations
• Lorene Lanier, Associate Dean for Graduate Education h-index 24
  Notable: “Tau Mislocalization to Dendritic Spines Mediates Synaptic Dysfunction Independently of Neurodegeneration” (2010) · 1,133 citations
• Zhe Chen, Assistant Professor h-index 23
  Notable: “Signal-induced site-specific phosphorylation targets I kappa B alpha to the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.” (1995) · 1,288 citations
• Marija Cvetanovic, Professor h-index 22
  Notable: “Innate Immune Discrimination of Apoptotic Cells: Repression of Proinflammatory Macrophage Transcription Is Coupled Directly to Specific Recognition” (2004) · 191 citations
• Geoffrey Ghose, Professor h-index 21
  Notable: “Attentional modulation in visual cortex depends on task timing” (2002) · 316 citations
• Rocio Gomez-Pastor, Associate Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “Regulation of heat shock transcription factors and their roles in physiology and disease” (2017) · 922 citations
• Julia Lemos, Associate Professor h-index 19
  Notable: “The Dysphoric Component of Stress Is Encoded by Activation of the Dynorphin κ-Opioid System” (2008) · 605 citations
• Arthur Leuthold, Adjunct Assistant Professor h-index 18
  Notable: “Beta-Band Activity during Motor Planning Reflects Response Uncertainty” (2010) · 392 citations
• Prakash Kara, Professor h-index 17
  Notable: “Functional imaging with cellular resolution reveals precise micro-architecture in visual cortex” (2005) · 1,240 citations
• Bagrat Amirikian, Adjunct Assistant Professor h-index 15
  Notable: “Directional tuning profiles of motor cortical cells” (2000) · 156 citations
• Aaron Kerlin, Assistant Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “High-performance calcium sensors for imaging activity in neuronal populations and microcompartments” (2019) · 1,320 citations
• Arif Hamid, Assistant Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Mesolimbic dopamine signals the value of work” (2015) · 884 citations
• Yanaira Alonso Caraballo, Assistant Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Enhanced anxiety-like behavior emerges with weight gain in male and female obesity-susceptible rats” (2018) · 57 citations
• Sidney Kuo, Assistant Professor h-index 9
  Notable: “Estradiol Activates Group I and II Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Signaling, Leading to Opposing Influences on cAMP Response Element-Binding Protein” (2005) · 382 citations
• Angeline Dukes, Assistant Professor h-index 6
  Notable: “α3* Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in the Habenula-Interpeduncular Nucleus Circuit Regulate Nicotine Intake” (2020) · 56 citations
• Andrew Chapp, Assistant Professor
• Atsushi Fujimoto, Assistant Professor
• Brian Engdahl, Adjunct Professor
• Greg Duncan, Assistant Professor
• Jeremiah Cohen, Professor
• Joanna Hagen, Assistant Professor
• Laura Ewell, Associate Professor
• Madhu Kannan, Assistant Professor
• Michael Lee, Professor

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.