Neuroscience Research Group
Neuroscientists in the Department of Physiology bring a strong interdisciplinary scientific approach to the study of the nervous system. Our students, post-docs and faculty are using molecular, cell biological, anatomical, electrophysiological, behavioral, and optical techniques to understand how the brain develops, how neurons communicate with each other, how brain cells maintain ionic homeostasis, and how these vital processes are disturbed in diseases such as epilepsy, Down’s syndrome, Alzheimer’s, and neuromuscular disease, epilepsy, depression, Alzheimer’s Disease, Down’s syndrome, schizophrenia, and neuromuscular diseases.
Faculty & Research Interests
- Bradley E. Alger, Synaptic transmission
- Thomas Blanpied, Synaptic structure and function
- Mordecai Blaustein, Sodium and calcium homeostasis
- Robert J. Bloch, Synaptic structure
- Lawrence Goldman, Membrane excitability
- Vera Golovina, Sodium and calcium homeostasis
- Joseph P. Y. Kao, Calcium signaling
- Bruce K. Krueger, Neurotrophin signaling
- W. Jon Lederer, Calcium signaling
- Margaret M. McCarthy, Neuroendocrinology
- Andrea L. Meredith, Ion Channels
- Marc Simard, Electrophysiology of glia
- Cha-Min Tang, Synaptic transmission
- Scott M. Thompson, Synaptic transmission
- W. Gil Wier, Calcium signaling