36 faculty and 0 courses in Neuroscience at University of Pittsburgh.
- David A. Lewis, Thomas Detre Endowed Chair, Psychiatry (secondary) h-index 133
Summary Functional architecture of the prefrontal cortex and schizophrenia.
Notable: “Cortical inhibitory neurons and schizophrenia” (2005) · 2,311 citations
- Anthony A. Grace, Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience h-index 110
Lie at the interface of neurobiology and psychiatry. Experiments conducted in his laboratory combine in vivo and in vitro electrophysiological recordings of identified neurons with behavioral and neuroanatomical techniques to study central
Notable: “The Hippocampal-VTA Loop: Controlling the Entry of Information into Long-Term Memory” (2005) · 2,043 citations
- Marlene Behrmann, Professor, Ophthalmology (secondary appointment) h-index 85
Research Insterests: Dr. Marlene Behrmann's research specializes in the cognitive basis of visual perception, with a specific focus on word, face, and object recognition. She is also interested in understanding the integrity and function of
Notable: “What Is Special about Face Recognition? Nineteen Experiments on a Person with Visual Object Agnosia and Dyslexia but Normal Face Recognition” (1997) · 672 citations
- Susan R. Sesack, Professor h-index 62
Es on the monoamine and cortical systems that regulate cognitive and emotional behaviors. These systems have been implicated in the pathophysiology of mental and affective disorders and represent the circuitry that is disrupted by substance
Notable: “Topographical organization of the efferent projections of the medial prefrontal cortex in the rat: An anterograde tract‐tracing study with Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin” (1989) · 1,569 citations
- Judy L. Cameron, Professor, Psychiatry (secondary appointment) h-index 61
Summary Effects of ‘everyday life stresses’ on behavior and health.
- Julie Fiez, Professor, Psychology/Neuroscience (secondary appointment) h-index 58
Summary Neuroimaging and behavioral studies of language, working memory, motivation, and learning.
Notable: “Common Blood Flow Changes across Visual Tasks: II. Decreases in Cerebral Cortex” (1997) · 1,926 citations
- Bill J. Yates, Professor, Otolaryngology/Neuroscience (secondary) h-index 51
Es on the role of the vestibular system in the maintenance of homeostasis, the function of the vestibular system in spatial cognition, and plasticity within the vestibular system following damage to the inner ear. Vestibular receptors detec
Notable: “Physiological basis and pharmacology of motion sickness: an update” (1998) · 229 citations
- Yan Dong, Professor and Chairman h-index 47
Depression, which is characterized in part as a lack of motivation, and sleep, which modulates the emotional and motivational state across most species. These lines of research in the laboratory are currently carried out by several high
Notable: “Drugs of Abuse and Stress Trigger a Common Synaptic Adaptation in Dopamine Neurons” (2003) · 1,144 citations
- Teresa G. Hastings, Associate Professor, Neurology/Neuroscience (secondary) h-index 46
Summary Oxidative mechanisms associated with neurodegeneration
- Oliver Schluter, Associate Professor h-index 42
Notable: “α-Synuclein Cooperates with CSPα in Preventing Neurodegeneration” (2005) · 959 citations
- Jon W. Johnson, Professor, Neuroscience and Psychiatry h-index 36
Summary Biophysics, pharmacology, and regulation of glutamate receptors
Notable: “Persistent Activation of ERK Contributes to Glutamate-induced Oxidative Toxicity in a Neuronal Cell Line and Primary Cortical Neuron Cultures” (2000) · 541 citations
- Neeraj J. Gandhi, Associate Professor, Otolaryngology/Neuroscience (secondary) h-index 28
Summary Neural basis of sensorimotor integration and cognition
Notable: “Motor Functions of the Superior Colliculus” (2011) · 525 citations
- Stephen D. Meriney, Professor h-index 28
Summary Regulation and modulation of presynaptic ion channels and transmitter release in healthy and diseased synapses.
Notable: “GJC2 Missense Mutations Cause Human Lymphedema” (2010) · 176 citations
- David Fraser, Teaching Associate Professor h-index 21
- Shawn Sorrells, Associate Professor h-index 20
Summary Neuron migration and maturation in the limbic system in mice and humans Research Interests One of the most remarkable things that develops during human childhood and teenage years is the perception, expression, and regulation of emo
Notable: “Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults” (2018) · 1,401 citations
- Simon Chamberland, Assistant Professor h-index 20
Of hippocampal somatostatin-expressing interneurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 121 (17) Chamberland, S., Nebet, ER., Valero, M., Hanani, M., Egger, R., Larsen SB., Eyring, K., Buzsáki, G., Tsien, RW. (2023) Brief syn
Notable: “Ultrafast Two-Photon Imaging of a High-Gain Voltage Indicator in Awake Behaving Mice” (2019) · 352 citations
- Xiaojie Huang, Research Assistant Professor h-index 19
Notable: “Circuit-wide Transcriptional Profiling Reveals Brain Region-Specific Gene Networks Regulating Depression Susceptibility” (2016) · 355 citations
- Georgina Cano, Research Assistant Professor h-index 19
Notable: “Feeding-elicited cataplexy in orexin knockout mice” (2009) · 76 citations
- Sara Morrison, Research Assistant Professor h-index 18
Summary Individual neuron and circuit activity underlying reward-motivated behavior in adolescents and adults Research Interests Environmental stimuli, also called cues, that become linked with rewards – e.g., food or drugs – can exert powe
Notable: “The primate amygdala represents the positive and negative value of visual stimuli during learning” (2006) · 929 citations
- Weifeng Xu, Assistant Professor h-index 16
Summary Cellular and molecular mechanisms of experience-dependent neural plasticity Research Interests Xu lab studies how experience induces long-lasting changes in synaptic transmission (synaptic plasticity) that ultimately patterns the ex
Notable: “Alternative N-Terminal Domains of PSD-95 and SAP97 Govern Activity-Dependent Regulation of Synaptic AMPA Receptor Function” (2006) · 260 citations
- Erika Fanselow, Teaching Associate Professor h-index 14
Notable: “Behavioral Modulation of Tactile Responses in the Rat Somatosensory System” (1999) · 351 citations
- Chengcheng Huang, Assistant Professor h-index 13
Summary Neuronal Network Dynamics and Neural Coding Research Interests My research involves computational modeling and mathematical analysis of neural networks. We develop theoretical approaches to understanding circuit dynamics and informa
Notable: “CCLasso: correlation inference for compositional data through Lasso” (2015) · 210 citations
- Caroline Runyan, Associate Professor h-index 12
Summary Imaging and manipulating cells and circuits to understand population coding across the cortical hierarchy Research Interests The meaning of a sensory stimulus can change depending on the current situation, and the ability to flexibl
Notable: “Division and subtraction by distinct cortical inhibitory networks in vivo” (2012) · 609 citations
- Diego Mendoza-Halliday, Assistant Professor h-index 12
Our brain has the extraordinary ability to actively maintain and manipulate mental representations in working memory—even without the use of our senses. Representations in working memory can be manipulated by transforming them (e.g., mental
Notable: “Sustained Activity Encoding Working Memories: Not Fully Distributed” (2017) · 262 citations
- Keri Fogle, Teaching Assistant Professor h-index 12
Notable: “Large Ventral Lateral Neurons Modulate Arousal and Sleep in Drosophila” (2008) · 278 citations
- Tyler Tarr, Research Assistant Professor h-index 12
Notable: “Synapse and Active Zone Assembly in the Absence of Presynaptic Ca2+ Channels and Ca2+ Entry” (2020) · 97 citations
- Daniela Uliana, Research Assistant Professor h-index 12
Notable: “The excitatory-inhibitory balance as a target for the development of novel drugs to treat schizophrenia” (2024) · 58 citations
- Sierra Stringfield, Assistant Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Sex and Adolescent Ethanol Exposure Influence Pavlovian Conditioned Approach” (2017) · 56 citations
- Alison L. Barth, Adjunct Professor (Carnegie Mellon)
Summary Plasticity in developing and adult neocortex.
- Amy K. Wagner, Professor (secondary appointment)
The TBI Rehabilomics Research Model, identifying biomarkers relevant for assessing pathology and prognosis as well as for assessing clinical risk and use in clinical decision making. Her experimental research also focuses on how ag
- Aryn Gittis, Associate Professor, Adjunct (Carnegie Mellon)
Summary Functional Neural Circuits and Neural Plasticity
- Deb Artim, Teaching Associate Professor
- Dylan Hale, Assistant Professor
- Shushruth Shushruth, Assistant Professor
- Stephanie Nygard, Teaching Associate Professor
- Swetha Godavarthi, Research Assistant Professor
Summary Molecular mechanisms driving synapse self-organization and plasticity
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