Faculty
Faculty participants in the Stanford Brain Research Institute.
John R. Adler
Development of minimally invasive tools for the treatment and resection
of benign and malignant brain tumors.
Gregory W. Albers
New pharmacological approaches for stroke treatment and prevention;
imaging methods for early identification of ischemic brain tissue.
Richard W. Aldrich
Regulation of membrane excitability; molecular basis of the gating of
ion channels.
Scott W. Atlas
Functional MRI; diffusion MRI; advanced MRI applications for tissue characterization
in disease states.
Stephen Baccus
Visual processing in neural circuits of the retina
Bruce Baker
Control of sexual differentiation, including behavior
Ben A. Barres
Development and function of glia.
Denis A. Baylor
Visual transduction.
Helen M. Blau
Molecular and cellular mechanisms controlling muscle differentiation and
localization of mRNAs during neuromuscular development; gene therapy for
neuronal damage.
Anne Brunet
Molecular basis of longevity. Role of the nervous system in the control of lifespan.
Paul S. Buckmaster
Hippocampus, epilepsy, hippocampal anatomy.
Regina K. Casper
Alterations in brain morphology and organization during starvation and
anorexia nervosa.
Pak H. Chan
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of cell death in CNS injury and in neurodegeneration
using transgenic and knockout strategies.
Thomas R. Clandinin
Molecular mechanisms of neuronal connection specificity.
Linda C. Cork
Motor neuron disease, aging, Alzheimer's disease.
David R. Cox
Human genetics; molecular genetic basis of human disease; human disease;
human genome analysis.
Somatosensory and motor pathway organization in adult primates, hand function, systemic responses to focal injury affecting hand function.
Karl Deisseroth
Neural stem cells, neuroengineering, adaptive plasticity, electrophysiology, two-photon imaging, animal behavior, computational modeling, neuropsychiatry, developing noninvasive technologies for focal brain stimulation.
Scott Delp
Dynamics and control of normal and abnormal movement.
William C. Dement
Pharmacological, electrophysiological, chronobiological characteristics of sleep.
John Desmond
Cerebellar cognitive function; clinical and cognitive neuroscience
applications of functional MRI and transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Ricardo Dolmetsch
Molecular mechanisms of calcium signalling in neurons and myocytes. Development of new technologies to investigate signaling cascades in neurons and to investigate the functions of neuronal circuits in the brain.
Leslie J. Dorfman
Clinical electrophysiology of the peripheral and central nervous system.
Lawrence F. Eng
Cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors in injured astocytes.
Social control of the nervous system and molecular basis of visual system development and function.
Robert Fisher
Basic mechanisms of the epilepsies, novel technologies for treating epilepsy, electrical brain stimulation, local drug delivery to brain, new antiepileptic drugs, epilepsy, driving and social limitations, non-epileptic seizures.
Uta Francke
Gene discovery for inherited disorders, human mutations and their functional consequences, Marfan syndrome, Williams syndrome, Rett syndrome, genomic imprinting, human and mouse gene mapping.
Craig C. Garner
Molecular mechanisms of vertebrate synapse formation and function.
Rona Giffard
Cellular and molecular basis for neuronal and astrocyte vulnerability
to ischemic injury.
William Gilly
Physiology and cell biology of ion channels in nerve and muscle cells;
neuromuscular systems, motor control and behavior in Cephalopod mollusks.
Gary Glover
Functional MRI acquisition and analysis, MR imaging physics
Miriam Goodman
Molecular mechanisms of mechanosensation and thermosensation, combining
genetic analysis with in vivo whole-cell patch clamp recording, single
cell PCR, quantitative behavioral analysis in C. elegans.
Ian H. Gotlib
Neural foundations of information-processing biases in affective disorders,
psychophysiology of depression, depression in children and adolescents,
intergenerational transmission of risk for psychopathology
Sherril L. Green
Motor neuron disease, cytoskeleton, aging.
Kalanit Grill-Spector
High level vision; neural correlates of visual
perception; computational neuroscience; functional magnetic resonance
imaging.
James Gross
Emotion and Cognition
Griffith Harsh
Molecular mechanisms of brain tumor development. Gene therapy of brain
tumors. Clinical managment of brain tumors.
H. Craig Heller
Neurobiology of sleep; circadian rhythms; thermoregulation.
Shaul Hestrin
Synaptic organization of cortical circuits.
Dikran S. Horoupian
Neuropathology of neurodegenerative diseases, neurodevelopmental disorders,
CNS neoplasms nerve and muscle disease.
Lynne C. Huffman
Developmental plasticity in human infants; peripheral markers of CNS organization
in infancy, e.g., cardiovascular reactivity and cry acoustics.
John Huguenard
Neuronal mechanisms of oscillatory activity in the thalamocortical
system, especially in relation to cognition, sleep and epilepsy. In vitro
neurophysiological and in silico computational approaches are used.
Judy Illes
Biomedical ethics, neuroimaging, medical imaging, neurosciences.
Terence Ketter
Brain imagining and pharmacological studies of emotion, mood, and
temperament in healthy volunteers; mood disorders.
Eric Knudsen
Information processing and mechanisms of learning in the central auditory
system.
Brian Knutson
Neural basis of emotional experience and expression in mammals, computational
neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Brian Kobilka
G protein coupled receptors.
Ron Kopito
Molecular and cell biology of ion channels and transporters
Elliot Krane
Neurobiology of pain in infants and children; other neurodevelopmental
problems
Barton Lane
Spinal cord and spine disease, degenerative and demyelinating diseases
of the central nervous system, strokes and infarction, and chronic epilepsy
syndromes
Richard Lewis
Calcium signaling by ion channels and cellular organelles; store-operated
channels; calcium control of gene expression
Bingwei Lu
Neural stem cell biology and mechanisms of neurodegeneration.
Liqun Luo
Molecular mechanisms of neuronal morphogenesis.
M. Bruce MacIver
Action of CNS depressants in hippocampal and neocortical brain slices;
whole cell patch clamp and field EEG recordings to compare anesthetic
actions on synaptic currents and cortical circuit function.
Sean C. Mackey
Functional Neuroimaging of Pain
Daniel V. Madison
Synaptic plasticity and neurochemical modulation of neuronal excitability
in the CNS.
Merritt Maduke
Molecular mechanisms of chloride channels studied by integration of structural
and electrophysiological methods