Core Faculty
Caitlin R. Bowman, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor, Psychology
Human memory functions, using a combination of behavioral tasks, computational modeling, brain imaging including model-based fMRI and multivariate pattern analyses.
Janis Eells, Ph.D.; Professor, Health Sciences
Mitochonrdrial Dysfunction, Mitochondrial signaling mechanisms involved in mediating cellular toxicity and protection
Ira Driscoll, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychology
Brain changes as early predictors of cognitive deficits and dementia, and the role for hormones and genetic background as modulators of age-related cognitive decline
Karyn Frick, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Psychology
Understand how aging, sex-steroid hormones, and environmental factors affect hippocampal function and hippocampal-dependent memory
Jennifer H. Gutzman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Cell and Molecular Biology, Developmental Neurobiology
Deborah Hannula, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience, Memory, fMRI, Eye-Tracking, Neuropsychological Methods
Fred J. Helmstetter, Ph.D.; Distinguished Professor, Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience, Animal Learning, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Brain Imaging
James R, Moyer, Jr., Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Psychology
Neurobiology of learning, Memory, and Aging, Cellular Mechanisms of Neuronal Aging, Neurobiological Mechanisms of Temporal Encoding
Christopher C. Quinn, Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Biology
Cell Biology, Developmental Genetics and Neuroscience
Rodney Swain, Ph.D.; Professor, Psychology Behavioral Neuroscience/Psychobiology, Learning and Memory, Cerebellar Plasticity
Ava Udvadia, Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Associated Faculty
Benjamin C. Campbell, Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Anthropology
Human biology, Africa, Hormones, nomads
Michael Carvan, Ph.D.; Shaw Professor, Fresh Water Sciences
Toxicology, toxicogenomics, epigenetics, behavioral toxicology, gene-environment-disease/dysfunction interactions
Wendy E. Huddleston, Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Health Sciences Human Movement Sciences
Bonnie Klein-Tasman, Ph.D.; Professor, Psychology
Child Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Pediatric Neuropsychology, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Childhood Anxiety Disorders
Christine L. Larson, Ph.D.; Professor, Psychology
Clinical Psychology; Affective Neuroscience: fMRI, EEG, and peripheral psychophysiology of affective processes
Krista (Medina) Lisdahl, Ph.D.; Professor, Psychology
Clinical neuropsychology, assessment, psychopharmacology, effects of drugs on behavior.
J. Rudi Strickler, Ph.D.; Distinguished Professor, Biological Sciences Limnology, biological oceanography, zooplankton ecology, biomechanics.
Kurt Svoboda, Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Public Health
Nicotine toxicity and developmental biology of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs).