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Cork","firstName":"Linda","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Linda_Cork","researchInterest":"My research interests focus on inherited neurologic disease in animals and on animal models of aging and neurodegerative diseases such as Motor Neuron Disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease) and Alzheimer's disease."},{"lastName":"Bouley","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Comparative Medicine"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Comparative Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4428&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Donna M. Bouley","firstName":"Donna","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Donna_Bouley","researchInterest":"Research interests: ocular pathology, host-pathogen interactions in infectious disease, infectious disease in frogs, phenotypic characterization of tg and ko mice, histopathology of minimally-invasive radiological ablation techniques (focused ultrasound, cryoablation)."},{"lastName":"Wang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"},{"focus":"Neurology - Child Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3902&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ching H. Wang","firstName":"Ching","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Ching_Wang","researchInterest":"1. 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We also carry out single-cell fluorescence imaging studies on mammalian cell lines."},{"lastName":"Valdmanis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pediatrics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=12455&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul Valdmanis","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Paul_Valdmanis","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Chan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4423&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Pak H. Chan","firstName":"Pak","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Pak_Chan","researchInterest":"Neuronal death after cerebral ischemia and neural injury using transgenic strategy"},{"lastName":"Yuan","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Pulmonary"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Medicine/Cystic Fibrosis, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Sleep Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3969&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nanci Yuan, MD","firstName":"Nanci","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Nanci_Yuan","researchInterest":"My research interests are concentrated on the pulmonary complications due to neuromuscular disease, cerebral palsy/hypertonicity, scoliosis, and sleep disorders in the pediatric population."},{"lastName":"Johansson","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8794&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jenny Johansson","firstName":"Jenny","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Jenny_Johansson","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Nelson","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4277&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lorene Nelson, PhD","firstName":"Lorene","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Lorene_Nelson","researchInterest":"Primary research interests:  (1) genetic and environmental determinants of neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multiple sclerosis, (2) genetic epidemiology and approaches for identifying gene-environment interactions, (3) genetic and environmental determinants of autoimmune disease."},{"lastName":"Albertelli","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Comparative Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Comparative Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11414&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Megan Albertelli","firstName":"Megan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Megan_Albertelli","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Wong","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Nephrology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7185&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Cynthia Wong","firstName":"Cynthia","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Cynthia_Wong","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Huang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3930&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ting-Ting Huang","firstName":"Ting-Ting","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Ting-Ting_Huang","researchInterest":"We study the role of oxygen free radicals in oxidative tissue damage and degeneration. Our research tools include transgenic and knockout mice and tissue culture cells for in vitro gene expression."},{"lastName":"Gehrke","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9160&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephan Gehrke","firstName":"Stephan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Stephan_Gehrke","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Andreasson","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7903&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Katrin Andreasson","firstName":"Katrin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Katrin_Andreasson","researchInterest":"Our research focuses on understanding disease mechanisms of stroke injury and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) as they relate to the COX-2-prostaglandin pathways.  We are identifying prostaglandin receptor pathways that are involved in these disease models, and our objective is to identify which receptors will be translationally relevant in human neurological disease."},{"lastName":"Sapolsky","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6114&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Sapolsky","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Robert_Sapolsky","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Parker","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychiatry/Neuroscience/MSLS"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychiatry/Neuroscience/MSLS","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7434&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Karen J. Parker, Ph.D.","firstName":"Karen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Karen_Parker","researchInterest":"Oxytocin and vasopressin brain systems and their relationship to social functioning and pathology; stress, coping, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis physiology; autism and major depression"},{"lastName":"Dodd","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Interventional Neuroradiology"},{"focus":"Neurosurgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6790&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Dodd","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Robert_Dodd","researchInterest":"Dr. Dodd is involved in clinical trials using endovascular coils that have a fiber coating that help heal aneurysms of the neck and can prevent an aneurysm from reforming. He uses minimally invasive endoscopic techniques to treat brain tumors.\r\n\r\nDodd's research interests are in cerebral blood vessel reactivity and stroke."},{"lastName":"Bronte-Stewart","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4377&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Helen Bronte-Stewart","firstName":"Helen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Helen_Bronte-Stewart","researchInterest":"My research focus is human motor control and brain pathophysiology in movement disorders.  Our overall goal is to understand the role of the basal ganglia electrical activity in the pathogenesis of movement disorders.  We have developed novel computerized technology to measure fine, limb and postural movement.  With these we are measuring local field potentials in basal ganglia nuclei in patients with Parkinson's disease and dystonian and correlating brain signalling with motor behavior."},{"lastName":"Lu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3976&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Bingwei Lu","firstName":"Bingwei","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Bingwei_Lu","researchInterest":"We are interested in understanding how neural stem cells balance their self-renewal and differentiation and how deregulation of this process can result in brain tumor. We are also interested in mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer\u0092s and Parkinson\u0092s diseases. We are using both Drosophila and mammalian models to address these fundamental questions."},{"lastName":"Dement","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Psychology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4532&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William C. Dement","firstName":"William","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/William_Dement","researchInterest":"Sleep Medicine education and awareness."},{"lastName":"Buckwalter","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6463&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marion S. Buckwalter","firstName":"Marion","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Marion_Buckwalter","researchInterest":"Our lab focuses on how inflammatory responses after brain injury affect neurological recovery. We utilize translational approaches to understand molecular mechanisms underlying functional recovery.  Molecular events are modified in mice using either transgenic models or novel small molecule compounds, and then we evaluate the effects on functional recovery as well as on cellular and molecular responses."},{"lastName":"Giffard","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Anesthesia"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4657&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Rona Giffard","firstName":"Rona","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Rona_Giffard","researchInterest":"The cellular and molecular basis for brain cell injury in stroke is our focus.  Astrocytes and neurons interact, and have unique vulnerabilities to injury based on their patterns of gene expression and their functional roles.  We study gene therapy with heat shock proteins, changes in mitochondrial function, oxidative stress and inflammation during ischemia. We also model cell death pathways and the effects of Hsp70."},{"lastName":"Mackey","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Pain Management"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4594&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sean Mackey, M.D., Ph.D.","firstName":"Sean","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Sean_Mackey","researchInterest":"Functional neuroimaging of pain.  Imaging of cognitive and affective dimensions of pain, neural plasticity contributing to chronic pain and effects of treatment.\r\n\r\nEffects of membrane stabilizing medications on neuropathic pain.\r\n\r\nChronic pain outcomes tools development and measurement."},{"lastName":"Garner","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychiatry/Neuroscience/MSLS"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychiatry/Neuroscience/MSLS","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3890&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Craig C. Garner","firstName":"Craig","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Craig_Garner","researchInterest":"Our laboratory is studying synapse formation, stability and elimination at a variety of levels, e.g. from molecules to behavior.  A primary focus of the lab is to understanding the role that individual molecules play in the assembly and function of synaptic junctions.  In addition we evaluating a variety of potential treatments for cognitive impairment in Down syndrome in part by assessing the impact specific drugs on cognitive function in mouse models of Down syndrome."},{"lastName":"Jackson","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4463&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peter Jackson","firstName":"Peter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/neuroscience/researcher/Peter_Jackson","researchInterest":"Cell cycle and cyclin control of DNA replication ."}]}