Brain and Behavior

Cognitive neuroscience is the study of groups of neurons working in concert to encode higher order information or to control behavior. The cognitive issues being addressed at Utah include the nature of attention, object recognition, learning and memory. For example, researchers are studying the tuning of cells in vision and hearing; others are studying how the brain takes visual information and determines the spatial location of the animal in a complex environment; and finally, others are studying how neurotransmitters and potent neuroactive drugs alter the mental state of an individual. Work of this type is also leading to the development of somatosensory, visual and auditory prostheses.

Faculty doing cognitive neuroscience research and their departmental affiliation are:

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	Name	Department	Research Interest
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	Alessandra Angelucci	Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences	Structure and function of the visual cerebral cortex
	Brenda L. Bass	Biochemistry	Determining the roles of RNA editing in the nervous system, using C. elegans as a model system
	Paul Bressloff	Mathematics	Theoretical neuroscience
	Gregory A. Clark	Bioengineering	Electrophysiological, cellular, and computational analyses of neuronal plasticity in simple systems (Aplysia and Hermissenda); neural information processing; bio-based neuroprostheses
	Sarah Creem-Regehr	Psychology	Cognitive neuroscience; visual perception; visual-motor control; spatial cognition
D-F
	"Chuck" Alan Dorval	Bioengineering	Neuropathophysioloy, Translational Neuroscience, Neuromodulation, Neuronal Semiotic
	Ed Dudek	Physiology	Mechanisms of neuronal communication under normal developmental conditions and in models of epilepsy using electrophysiological techniques in brain slices as well as in behaving animals
	Annette E. Fleckenstein	Pharmacology & Toxicology	Neuropharmacology, neurochemistry and aminergic transporters
	Robert S. Fujinami	Pathology	Neuroimmunology/Neurovirology - Understanding immune and viral contributions to the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis and epilepsy
G-J
	Franz Goller	Biology	Behavioral physiology of sound production and song learning in songbirds
	Christopher Gregg	Neurobiology & Anatomy	Early life programming of molecular pathways and neural circuits related to feeding and foraging behaviors
	Bradley Greger	Bioengineering	Systems level physiology & Neural prostheses
	Glen R. Hanson	Pharmacology & Toxicology	Interaction between neuropeptide and biogenic amine transmitter systems in the central nervous system
	John M. Hoffman	Radiology and Neurology	Modern imaging techniques including positron emission tomography (PET), MRI, and autoradiography to understand clinically relevant brain related problems and biologic processes
K
	Kristen A. Keefe	Pharmacology & Toxicology	Pharmacology of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, including drug abuse and addiction. Normal and pathological functions of the basal ganglia
	Raymond P. Kesner	Psychology	Neurobiological basis of learning and memory
	Richard D. King	Neurology	Using advanced neuroimaging analysis tools to study morphometric changes in the brain associated with neurodegenerative diseases
	Julie R. Korenberg	Pediatrics	Genetics, neurobiology and multiscale imaging of neural circuitry for disorders of social behavior, animal and human models
L-Q
	Janet E. Lainhart	Psychiatry	Neurobiology of autism
	Alan R. Light	Anesthesiology	Neurobiology of pain and fatigue enhancement caused by injury and in Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia syndromes
	J. Michael McIntosh	Psychiatry and Biology	Molecular Pharmacology of CNS receptors and ion channels
	Richard A. Normann	Bioengineering	Information processing in the vertebrate retina; phototransduction
R-Z
	Richard D. Rabbitt	Bioengineering	Micro-electric impedance spectroscopy of auditory and vestibular hair cells
	Perry F. Renshaw	Psychiatry	In vivo neurochemical changes associated with mood and drug abuse disorders; natural products as novel treatments
	Gary Rose	Biology	Information processing in the auditory and electrosensory systems
	Sharif Taha	Physiology	Neural control of reward-directed behaviors; role of opioid signaling in modulating food intake; impulsivity and alcohol consumption
	Neil Vickers	Biology	Neuroethology of olfaction
	Matt Wachowiak	Physiology	Understanding the basic principles of olfactory function
	Jason M. Watson	Psychology	Experimental investigation of reading, remembering, executive functions, and other brain-behavior relationships
	John A. White	Bioengineering	Hippocampal neurophysiology, computational neuroscience, real-time instrumentation
	Ayako Yamaguchi	Biology	Neural Mechanisms Underlying Sexually Distinct Behavior
	Deborah Yurgelun-Todd	Psychiatry	Application of MR imaging methods to understand emotional processing and cognitive changes associated with behavioral disorders
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