Behavior & Cognition

Please note: Words in italics are the official PIBS affiliations of the indicated faculty.

Goncalo Abecasis, Ph.D Development and application of statistical methods for complex trait gene identification. Active research areas include mental disorders and aging-related diseases. Biostatistics. Bioinformatics.

Richard C. Adelman, Ph.D. Public information at the interface of science and society. Biological Chemistry.

Huda Akil, Ph.D. Molecular and neurobiological mechanisms of stress, opioids, endorphins, and dopamine. Psychiatry. Molecular and Chemical Neuroscience.

J. Wayne Aldridge, Ph.D. Neuronal activity in basal ganglia and motor cortex in movement. Neuroscience.

Jill Becker, Ph.D. Role of estrogen and dopamine in behavior/recovery of function after brain injury. Neuroscience.

Joshua Berke, Ph.D. Systems neuroscience of learning, motivation and decision-making, using electrophysiological recording in behaving rats and transgenic mice. Psychology. Neuroscience.

Kent Berridge, Ph.D. Affective neuroscience of reward 'liking' and 'wanting'; Basal ganglia roles in action syntax and behavioral coordination. Neuroscience.
Lab: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~berridge

Margit Burmeister, Ph.D. Gene mapping; genetics of neurological, psychiatric, and behavioral disorders; mouse models; genome organization. Human Genetics. Neuroscience.
http://www.mbni.med.umich.edu/mbni/faculty/burmeister/burmeister.html

Daniel P. Ferris, Ph.D. Biomechanics and neural control of human locomotion, neurological rehabilitation, robotic devices for human augmentation and rehabilitation. Movement Science.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ferrisdp/UMHNL.html

Sid Gilman, MD Neurophysiological basis of motor control. Integrative and Systems Neurobiology.

John Jonides, Ph.D. Working memory, reasoning, and the biological basis of cognition. Psychology.

W. Michael King, Ph.D. Motor learning and signal processing in the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR), binocular coordination and eye movement control, single cell recording. Neuroscience.

Jun Li, Ph.D. Genetic studies of complex human diseases, including psychiatric disorders, heart disease, and cancer, with emphases on genetic influence of gene expression, population structure, DNA copy number variation (either inherited or somatic), and application of next-generation sequencing methods to related problems. Human Genetics. Cellular & Molecular Biology. Bioinformatics.

Israel Liberzon, MD Functional neuroanatomy of emotions and neuroendocrinology of stress response in traumatized individuals and in animal models. Neuroscience.

Cindy Lustig, Ph.D. Behavioral and fmri studies of memory and attention, especially in older adults. Neuroscience. Psychology.

Stephen Maren, Ph.D. Neurobiological basis of emotional learning and memory. Neuroscience.

John Middlebrooks, Ph.D. Psychophysical and cortical physiological studies of directional hearing. Physiological stimulus of cochlear prosthesis. Neuroscience.

Martin Myers, MD, Ph.D. Mechanisms of intracellular signaling by the leptin receptor/Jak2 complex. Signals than perturbed in genetically engineered animals in order to study the function of these signals in neurons and immune cells in vivo. Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Paresh Patel, MD, Ph.D. Neurotransmitters Regulating Mood Disorders. Neuroscience.
http://www.mbni.med.umich.edu/mbni/faculty/patel/patel.html

Bryan Pfingst, Ph.D. Perception and processing of auditory information. Neuroscience.

Gina Poe, Ph.D. Basic sleep processes, development, learning and memory, and optimization of cognitive performance. Molecular & Integrative Physiology. Neuroscience.

Thad Polk, Ph.D. Cognitive neuroscience; functional neuroimaging; computational modeling; environmental influences on cognitive architecture; reading; reasoning; unified theories of cognition. Neuroscience.

Terry E. Robinson, Ph.D. Neurobiology and biopsychology of addiction, and the nature of long-term neuroadaptations engendered by drug use. Psychology. Neuroscience.

Martin Sarter, Ph.D. Regulation and function of forebrain cholinergic systems. Neurobiology of attention. Neuronal mediation of the cognitive dysfunctions in neurodegenerative and neurospychiatric disorders. Psychology. Neuroscience.

Audrey F. Seasholtz, Ph.D. Regulation of expression of the corticotropin-releasing hormone gene in mammalian stress. Biological Chemistry. Neuroscience. Cellular & Molecular Biology.

Rachael Seidler, Ph.D. Psychophysics and functional neuroimaging to determine the behavioral and neural substrates contributing to movement and motor skill learning. Neuroscience.

Stephan Taylor, M.D. Emotion and cognitive control in healthy and psychiatric (schizophrenia, OCD) populations. Neuroscience. Psychology.

Delia Vazquez, MD Development of the classical endocrine system which responds to stress, the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis. Regulation of the serotonin system during development. Neuroscience.

James H. Woods, Ph.D. Behavioral pharmacology; mechanisms of drug tolerance, dependence, and reinforcement. Pharmacology. Neuroscience.
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/woods

X.Z. Shawn Xu, Ph.D. Neurobiology of behavior and drug addiction in the genetic model organism C. elegans. Regulation of neuronal activity and fertilization by calcium signaling. Molecular & Integrative Physiology.