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Upstate Medical university Neuroscience

Faculty

Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience

Robert Barlow, Ph.D.
Professor
Neural basis of visual behavior; computational models of neural coding; circadian and metabolic modulation of human visual sensitivity.
Michael Meguid, M.D.
Professor
Neurophysiological regulation of food intake.
Blair Calancie, Ph.D.
Professor
CNS plasticity after trauma; intraoiperative electrophysiology.
Frank Middleton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Molecular basis of cortical-basal ganglia and cortical-cerebellar circuit formation and dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric disease.

David Carter, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Interim Chair
Enhancing Central Nervous System (brain & spinal cord) plasticity & repair; Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy
Michael Miller, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Factors that regulate the proliferation, migration, and survival/death of neurons in the developing brain; models of fetal alcohol syndrome, autism, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Russell Durkovic, Ph.D.
Professor
Examination of processes underlying recovery from spinal cord injury in the salamander.
Sandra Mooney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cell death and survival in the developing brain; Mechanisms of ethanol toxicity; models of fetal alcohol syndrome and autism.
Bart Farell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Brad Motter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Visual Neurophysiology; Visual Attention; Visual Search Behavior
Charles Hodge, M.D.
Professor
Mechanisms of cortical plasticity and cortical reorganization after injury.
Maxwell Mozell, Ph.D.

The physiology of olfactory discrimination.
John Hoepner, M.D.
Professor and Chair
Cataract surgery glaucoma retinal electrophysiology
Jeremy Shefner, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Animals models of the physiology and treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); Peripheral nerve physiology.
Wendy Kates, Ph.D.
Professor
Anatomic and functional imaging investigations of neurodevelopment in individuals with genetic or psychiatric disorders
Eduardo Solessio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Paul Kent, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mechanisms of sensory coding in the olfactory system; seizure mechanisms in hippocampal slices; optical imaging techniques.
Dennis Stelzner, Ph.D.
Professor
CNS regeneration, spinal cord injury research, and neural plasticity.
Barry Knox, Ph.D.
Professor
Visual transduction, Gene Expression, Membrane proteins
Daniel Tso, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Neuronal mechanisms of visual perception, studied through physiological, anatomical and functional imaging techniques.
Michael Lyon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Age-related changes in the laryngeal muscles and vocal folds.
Brent Vogt, Ph.D.
Professor
Structure, functions, and pathologies of cingulate cortex.
Paul Massa, Ph.D.
Professor
Regulation of cytokine-induced gene expression in oligodendrodcytes.
Regulation of innate immune responses in glial cells.
Unique control of NF-kappaB activation in neurons.
Steven Youngentob, Ph.D.
Professor

In utero ethanol exposure and chemsensory systems plasticity, olfactory signal transduction, peripheral and central mechanisms of odorant quality coding.

James McCasland, Ph.D.
Professor
Cortical plasticity, development of somatotopic representations in cortex