8 faculty and 0 courses in Neuroscience at Saint Louis University.
- Tony W. Buchanan, Professor, Psychology h-index 39
My research focuses on the relationships between stress and behavior. My work focuses on two related, but distinct questions: 1) How does stress impact cognition, especially decision making? And 2) How does stress impact the physiology and
Notable: “A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage” (2005) · 1,332 citations
- William S. Stark, Professor Emeritus h-index 30
Stark's research interests center around visual receptor function. His specialties are visual sensitivity to ultraviolet light, rhodopsin, and vitamin A's diverse effects in visual receptors. In addition to being the chromophore that absorb
- Judith M. Ogilvie, Professor Emerita h-index 19
The Ogilvie lab takes a multidisciplinary approach to better understand the structure, development and degeneration of the vertebrate retina with two major areas of focus. Investigations of primate retinal circuitry use connectomics methodo
Notable: “Inhibition of Caspases Prevents Ototoxic and Ongoing Hair Cell Death” (2002) · 132 citations
- Jill D. Waring, Associate Professor, Psychology h-index 16
Dr. Waring and the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience of Aging (CANA) Lab investigates the interactions of cognition and emotion processing across the lifespan, with the goal of identifying behavioral and neural markers that may
Notable: “Effects of emotional valence and arousal upon memory trade-offs with aging.” (2009) · 91 citations
- Brenda A. Kirchhoff, Associate Professor, Psychology h-index 15
Kirchhoff’s research interests include memory formation, self-initiated learning strategies, the effects of aging on cognition and the brain, the effects of Type 1 diabetes on cognition and the brain, cognitive rehabilitation, and the appli
Notable: “Prefrontal–Temporal Circuitry for Episodic Encoding and Subsequent Memory” (2000) · 538 citations
- Alaina Baker-Nigh, Assistant Professor, Biology h-index 7
Baker-Nigh is a neuroscientist with a research background in neurodegenerative disease, particularly Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Her work in the area has included quantitation of Apolipoprotein E isoforms in human subjects by Mass Spectrometr
Notable: “Tau Kinetics in Neurons and the Human Central Nervous System” (2018) · 598 citations
- Mohini Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Biology h-index 6
Generating movement is essential for survival. Even simple movements like walking require precise coordination between different body parts that is not a trivial feat. Just like toddlers slowly get better at walking, motor coordination impr
Notable: “AMPA receptor mediated synaptic excitation drives state-dependent bursting in Purkinje neurons of zebrafish larvae” (2015) · 62 citations
- Katherine Luking, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Professor Luking’s work focuses on relationships between neurodevelopment and the emergence of psychopathology in middle childhood and early adolescence. Using a variety of methods (EEG, fMRI, behavior, hormones) she asks how core affective
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