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Faculty

Faculty members who teach in the graduate program include M.D. and Ph.D. scientists with extensive experience in clinical and basic neuroscience research and in pre- and post-doctoral education.

TNP training faculty members come from a wide array of university units (including both primary and secondary appointments). Additions are anticipated as the TNP develops to include faculty from the following units: Anatomy and Cell Biology, Neurology, Anesthesiology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Biomedical Engineering, Ophthalmology, Chemistry, Pathology, C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Pediatrics, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics (CMMG), Pharmacology, Immunology and Microbiology, Physiology, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Institute of Gerontology (IOG), Psychology, Medical Physics, and Radiology.

Joshua Adler, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Neurology, Anatomy & Cell Biology Spinal cord integration and modulation of nociception; nociceptive peptides; neurotrophic factors and receptors; neuronal/glial interaction; spinal sensory neurons and ganglia; sympathetic neurons and ganglia.	Jiani Hu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Radiology MRS applied to CNS tumors and Sturge-Weber syndrome.
Cynthia Arfken, Ph.D. Associate Professor Psychiatry Biostatistics, epidemiology, health services.	Joseph Jacobson, Ph.D. Professor Psychiatry Effects of prenatal exposure to neurotoxic agents (especially PCBs and alcohol) on infant and child development.
Joyce Benjamins, Ph.D. Professor Neurology, Biochemistry, Immunology/ Microbiology Glial biology, myelination, protective mechanisms and metabotropic glutamate receptors in oligodendroglia, gene array analysis of effects of cytokines on neurons and glia.	Csaba Juhasz, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Pediatrics, Neurology PET imaging in childhood epilepsy.
Randall Benson, M.D. Assistant Professor Neurology Behavioral neurology: degenerative dementias, aphasia, neuropsychiatric disorders, stroke, functional neuroimaging, CNS disorders affecting gait, balance, and motor function, traumatic brain injury.	Matcheri Keshavan, M.D. Professor Psychiatry Psychoses, Magnetic resonance imaging.
Bruce Berkowitz, Ph.D. Professor Anatomy & Cell Biology, Ophthalmology Vascular and neuronal retinopathy.	Donald Kuhn, Ph.D. Professor Psychiatry Molecular neurobiology, Neurochemistry, Neurotoxicology.
George Borszcz, Ph.D. Associate Professor Psychology Neurobiology of emotion and pain affect; fore-brain circuitry that governs individuals' innate emotional reaction to threatening/painful stimuli; evaluation of how plasticity within this forebrain circuit results in development of depression and anxiety.	Jun Li, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Neurology Schwann-cell axon interaction, axonal degeneration, conduction block and pathogenic mechanism of inherited neuropathies.
Nashaat Boutros, M.D. Professor Psychiatry, Neurology Psychoses, Electrophysiology (EEG, EP, TMS).	Robert Lisak, M.D. Professor Neurology, Immunology/ Microbiology Multiple sclerosis, demyelinating neuropathies and myasthenia gravis, role of neuropoietic cytokines in regulation of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases of the CNS and PNS.
Scott Bowen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Psychology, Ob/Gyn Behavioral pharmacology, toxicology and teratology of inhalants.	William Lyman, M.D. Professor Pediatrics, Psychiatry Stem cells and neural repair.
Leon Carlock, Ph.D. Associate Professor CMMG, Anatomy & Cell Biology Molecular neurobiology; Huntington’s disease; neuron-specific gene expression; demyelinating disease.	Robert Mackenzie, Ph.D. Associate Professor Psychiatry CNS control of appetite and energy homeostasis.
Diane Chugani, Ph.D. Professor Pediatrics, Radiology Neuroimaging and pharmacological trials in autism and epilepsy.	Kenneth Maiese, M.D. Professor Neurology, Anatomy & Cell Biology, CMMG, Inst. Env. Health. Sci. Evaluation of the role of growth factors, signal transduction pathways, gene regulation, cellular metabolism, and metabotropic glutamate receptors in neuronal survival.
Harry Chugani, M.D. Professor Pediatrics, Radiology, Neurology Neuroimaging epilepsy, autism and brain development.	Scott Moffat, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Psychology, IOG Cognitive, structural and functional brain changes assoc. with aging, neuroendocrinology.
Donald Coscina, Ph.D. Professor Psychology, Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Nutrition and Food Science Neurochemical systems (esp. 5HT and NPY) and role of nicotine in the control of appetite and food intake, body weight regulation and metabolic processes.	Otto Muzik, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pediatrics, Radiology, Neurology PET imaging, Pediatric imaging.
Donald Degracia, Ph.D. Associate Professor Physiology Cell death following brain ischemia and reperfusion.	Naftali Raz, Ph.D. Professor IOG, Psychology Neural mechanisms and modifiers of cognitive aging.
Vaibhav Diwadkar, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Psychiatry, Psychology MRI and fMRI assessment of risk for psychiatric illness.	David Rosenberg, M.D. Professor Psychiatry MRI and 1H-MRS imaging of pediatric neuropsychiatric disorders.
Paula Dore-Duffy, Ph.D. Professor Neurology, Immunology/Microbiology Blood brain barrier and neurovascular diseases, angiogenesis, injury responses. Neurotrauma and multiple sclerosis and related diseases, neurologic complications of collagen-vascular diseases, vasculitis, tumors of the brain.	John SantaLucia, Ph.D. Professor Chemistry NMR structure, Determination of RNA, Development of antibiotics.
Robert Freedman, Ph.D. Professor Psychiatry, Ob/Gyn Thermoregulation, menopausal hot flashes, fMRI.	Ava Senkfor, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Psychology Memory, social cognition, action processing and aging, using fMRI, ERPs, and optical imaging.
Matthew Galloway, Ph.D. Professor Psychiatry, Anesthesiology Neurochemical pharmacology of 1H-MRS.	Michael Shy, M.D. Professor Neurology, CMMG Molecular biology of Schwann cell axonal interactions; gene therapy in the peripheral nervous system.
James Garbern, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Neurology, CMMG Neurogenetics; molecular biology of myelin disorders; molecular pathogenesis of glial tumors; homeobox genes.	Jeffrey Stanley, Ph.D. Associate Professor Psychiatry Proton and phosphorous MRS in development, ADHD.
James Granneman, Ph.D. Professor Psychiatry, Pathology Signal transduction, neural control of metabolism, optical imaging and in vivo proteomics.	Susan Stine, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Psychiatry Neuroendocrine system in stress and drug dependence.
Mark Greenwald, Ph.D. Associate Professor Psychiatry, Psychology Neuropsychopharmacology of drug self-administration/dependence and pharmacological imaging applied to substance use disorders.	Manuel Tancer, M.D. Professor Psychiatry, Pharmacology Effects of MDMA (Ecstasy) measured with fMRI and MRS.
E. Mark Haacke, Ph.D. Professor Biomedical Engineering, Radiology Functional and neurovascular imaging.	Craig Watson, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Neurology Epilepsy, hippocampal sclerosis, lesional epilepsy; neuroimaging in epilepsy, especially quantitative volumetric MRI of medial temporal structures.
John Hannigan, Ph.D. Professor Ob/Gyn, Psychology Neurobehavioral effects of prenatal drug and alcohol exposure.