Editors for Neuroscience

We aim to publish significant research in all areas of neuroscience, including but not limited to brain function, neuronal circuits, synapses, sensory processing, and motor pattern generation. Read the latest research in this subject area.

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Senior editors

Richard Aldrich

The University of Texas at Austin, United States

Rick Aldrich is the Karl Folkers Chair II in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research and Professor of Neuroscience at The University of Texas at Austin. He joined the faculty in 2006 and served as chair until 2011. Previously he was on the faculty of Neurobiology (1985-1990) and of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (1990-2006) at Stanford University where he served as department chair from 2001–2004. He was an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1990 to 2006. His work is on molecular mechanisms of ion channels and calcium signaling proteins, with an emphasis on understanding gated conformational changes and allosteric mechanisms. Work in the laboratory is multidisciplinary including electrophysiology, biochemistry, spectroscopy, informatics and computation. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Biophysical Society. He is past president of the Biophysical Society and the Society of General Physiologists, and has received the Kenneth Cole Award for Membrane Physiology from the Biophysical Society and Alden Spencer Award for Neuroscience Research from Columbia University.

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
ion channels
calcium binding proteins
membrane transport
allostery and cooperativity
cellular neurophysiology
biochemical neuroscience

Competing interests statement
Richard Aldrich is employed by The University of Texas at Austin. He receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health.He is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Biophysical Society. He serves actively on the editorial boards of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of General Physiology.
Timothy Behrens

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Tim Behrens is Professor of Computational Neuroscience at Oxford University and University College London, and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. His work investigating the neural mechanisms that control behaviour has made an impact across scales from cells to brain regions across mammalian species. He has also developed widely used approaches for measuring brain connections non-invasively that have been taken up by the Human Connectome Project, where he is a senior investigator and chair of the anatomical connectivity team.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
brain imaging
fMRI
learning
cognition
behavioural neuroscience
learning and decision making
brain connectivity
computational neuroscience
neural coding

Experimental organism
macaque monkeys

Competing interests statement
Tim Behrens receives funding from the Wellcome Trust, the James S McDonnell Foundation, the National Institute of Health, and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He is on the editorial board of PLOS Biology.
Olga Boudker

Weill Cornell Medicine, United States

Olga Boudker is an Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Boudker's lab uses crystallography and cryo-EM to define the high-resolution structures of key functional states of transporters; single molecule FRET TIRF microscopy and NMR to probe their dynamics; biochemical approaches and isothermal titration calorimetry to probe their function and energetics; and bioinformatics to follow their evolution.

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
membrane transporters
membrane biology
glutamate pumps
membrane protein structure and function
x-ray crystallography
Christian Büchel

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Christian Büchel is a member of the Hamburg Center for Neuroscience in Hamburg, where he is also the Director of the Department for Systems Neuroscience at Hamburg University Medical Center. He holds an Affiliate Professor appointment in the Psychology department at the University of Hamburg. After Medical School at the University of Heidelberg, he performed postdoctoral research with Karl Friston as a Wellcome Research Fellow at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience at UCL in London with a focus on effective connectivity.

Establishing his lab in Hamburg, he focused on the cognitive neuroscience of pain and motivation and initially studied decision making with an emphasis on delay discounting. In a parallel stream of projects he observed that the pain modulation underlying placebo analgesia can already be observed at the spinal cord level, a finding which he later also established for nocebo hyperalgesia. He is part of the IMAGEN study and during his time at Stanford he identified hypoactivation of reward circuits as a potential risk factor for addiction.

He is a member of the Academy of Science in Hamburg and was awarded the Jung Award for Medicine, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis by the German Research Foundation, and the Wiley Young Investigator Award of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping for recognition of his work in cognitive neuroscience.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience
pain modulation
decision-making
fear and anxiety
addiction

Experimental organism
human

Competing interests statement
Christian Büchel has received research grants from the European Research Council, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. He serves on the board of reviewing editors of Science magazine. He serves on the Swiss National Research Council, the Scientific Advisory Board of the ICM in Paris and the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany.
Ronald L Calabrese

Emory University, United States

Ron Calabrese earned his BS in Biochemistry from Cornell University and a PhD in Neurobiology from Stanford University. He has been on the Faculty of the Department of Biology, Emory University since 1986 and is currently the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Biology and Senior Associate Dean for Research. Calabrese's research focuses on the cellular mechanisms of motor control by central pattern generator (CPG) networks and the importance and implications of individual variation for network function and motor performance. His group uses an invertebrate model system, leeches, and focuses on the CPG that controls the beating of the animals two coordinated hearts. His research closely integrates electrophysiological experiments and computational modeling. They are particularly excited about their discovery, in collaboration with GS Cymbalyuk, that the Na/K pump current contributes to the bursting dynamics of oscillator neurons that pace the CPG, and in their recent eLife publication on output variability across animals and levels in a the leech-heartbeat motor system. Calabrese has been actively engaged in training 12 doctoral students, 2 masters' students, and 22 postdoctoral fellows. In 2017, he received the Award for Education in Neuroscience of the Society for Neuroscience.

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
motor pattern generation
neuronal and small networks models
electrophysiological properties of neurons and synapse
computational neuroscience

Experimental organism
leech

Competing interests statement
Over the past 30 years, Ron Calabrese has been consistently supported by NIH R01 grants. Since 2015, Calabrese has been a regular member of the SMI study section of NIH.
Laura Colgin

The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Learning and Memory, United States

Laura Colgin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and co-Director of the Center for Learning and Memory at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on understanding the functional significance of brain rhythms for learning and memory operations. Her lab also investigates how different brain rhythms affect neuronal ensemble representations of spatial memories, and how aberrant rhythmic activity influences neuronal activity and cognitive function in brain disorders. She received her PhD from the University of California at Irvine and completed her postdoctoral training in the Moser Lab at the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology. She is a recipient of the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience, an Alfred P Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, the Klingenstein Foundation Award in the Neurosciences, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award, and an NSF CAREER award.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
Brain rhythms
memory operations
entorhinal-hippocampal network
aberrant rhythmic activity in brain disorders
place cells
grid cells

Competing interests statement
Laura Colgin currently receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the USAMRMC Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, and the National Science Foundation. She is an Associate Editor for Progress in Neurobiology and a Review Editor for Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience. She serves on the Scientific Review Board for the Simons Foundation SFARI initiative and is a member of the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (LAM) study section for the National Institutes of Health.
Jonathan A Cooper

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States

Jon Cooper is a member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, where he is also a Senior Vice-President and Director of the Division of Basic Sciences. He holds an Affiliate Professor appointment in the Biochemistry department at the University of Washington. After undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge and post-graduate research at the University of Warwick, he performed postdoctoral research with Bernard Moss at the NIH and with Tony Hunter at the Salk Institute. With Tony, he found that oncogenic retroviruses (Rous sarcoma virus and others) and growth factors (EGF and PDGF) stimulate the tyrosine phosphorylation of overlapping subsets of cell proteins, which were candidates to regulate cell proliferation and metabolism. He joined Fred Hutch in 1985 to continue the work he started at the Salk, investigating the mechanisms by which protein kinases regulate cell proliferation and transformation. His laboratory played important roles in establishing how Src is regulated, how activated growth factor receptors recruit signaling proteins, and Ras-Raf-MAPK signaling. In 1995, postdoc Brian Howell knocked out the gene for a Src substrate and observed a distinctive brain development phenotype. Efforts by several laboratories rapidly established a signaling pathway that regulates neuron migrations during brain development. Further studies on this pathway revealed the importance of ubiquitination and degradation for terminating signaling, and led in recent years to detailed investigation of the roles of Cullin-RING ligases in regulating signal transduction events in vivo and in cultured cells.

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
signaling pathways
cell migration
phosphorylation
cell transformation

Competing interests statement
Jon Cooper receives research grants from the NIH and he serves on the editorial board of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Catherine Dulac

Harvard University, United States

Catherine Dulac is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard University. Her work explores the molecular biology of pheromone detection and signaling in mammals, and the neural mechanisms underlying age-, species-, and sex-specific behaviors. She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris; received her PhD from the University of Paris VI at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Embryology (Nogent-sur-Marne); and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and a member of the French Academy of Sciences, Institute of France. She is a recipient of the Liliane Bettencourt Prize, the Richard Lounsbery Award, the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize and the IPSEN Foundation Neuronal Plasticity prize.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cellular and molecular neuroscience
molecular and genetic basis of sex and species-specific social behavior

Competing interests statement
Catherine Dulac receives funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health. She is a member of the editorial boards of Current Opinion in Neurobiology and The Journal of Comparative Neurology. She is a member of selection committees for the following awards and prizes: McKnight Foundation Technical Innovation Award, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship Program, The Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, the New York Stem Cell Foundation Innovator Awards in Neuroscience, the Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research and the Searle Scholars. She also serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards for the following organizations: Senomyx, Allen Institute, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research. She is a member of the Visiting Committee for MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and she serves as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health Somatosensory and Chemosensory Study Section.
Michael J Frank

Brown University, United States

Michael J Frank is Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences affiliated with the Brown Institute for Brain Science at Brown University, where he directs the Brown Initiative for Computation in Brain and Mind. He received his PhD in Neuroscience and Psychology in 2004 at the University of Colorado, following undergraduate and master's degrees in electrical engineering and biomedicine. Dr. Frank’s work focuses primarily on theoretical models of frontostriatal circuits and their modulation by dopamine, especially in terms of their cognitive functions and implications for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The models are tested and refined with multimodal experiments across species. He is a Kavli Science Fellow, and recipient of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award (2011), the Janet T Spence Award for early career transformative contributions (Association for Psychological Science, 2010) and the DG Marquis award for best paper published in Behavioral Neuroscience (2006).

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
prefrontal cortex
basal ganglia
cognitive control
reinforcement learning

Competing interests statement
Michael Frank serves of the editorial boards of Journal of Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience, and he receives consulting fees for work with F Hoffman LaRoche Pharmaceuticals.
Joshua I Gold

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Joshua I Gold is Professor of Neuroscience, Chair of the Neuroscience Graduate Group, and Co-Director of the Computational Neuroscience Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since 2002. He studied models of synaptic plasticity with Drs Mark Bear and Leon Cooper as an undergraduate at Brown University, plasticity in the sound-localization pathway of the barn owl with Dr Eric Knudsen as a graduate student at Stanford University, and computational and neural mechanisms of deicsion-making with Dr Michael Shadlen as a post-doc at the University of Washington. Gold currently studies the neural basis of learning and decision-making in the primate brain, with a focus on interactions between physiological arousal and cognitive processing. His work uses several complementary approaches, including theory and modeling; measures of behavior and pupil diameter in humans; and measures of behavior, pupil diameter, and brain activity in non-human primates. Much of his current work involves understanding how the brain adaptively processes information in dynamic environments. He won early career awards from the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, the McKnight Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
systems neuroscience
decision-making
perception
arousal
learning
electrophysiology

Competing interests statement
Joshua Gold is employed by the University of Pennsylvania. He receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. He has also received funding from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the McKnight Foundation for Neuroscience, and the Sloan Foundation. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Neurophysiology.
Richard Ivry

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Rich Ivry is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. Ivry studies various aspects of human performance using behavioral studies in healthy and neurologically impaired populations, brain stimulation, neuroimaging, and computational modeling. His work has advanced our understanding of how people select and implement movements, and acquire new motor skills, with a special interest in how subcortical systems interact with the cortex in sensorimotor control and learning. For over a decade, Ivry served as an associate editor for the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and is co-author of the textbook, The Cognitive Neurosciences: The Biology of the Mind.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive neuroscience and psychology
non-invasive brain stimulation
human performance
sensorimotor control and learning
behavior
cognition
brain
attention
coordination
executive control
motor control
motor learning

Competing interests statement
Rich Ivry receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Cerebellum.
Andrew J King

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Andrew King is Professor of Neurophysiology and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he heads the Auditory Neuroscience Group in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. His research uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the neural basis for auditory perception and multisensory integration. His group is currently investigating the representation and coding of sound features by populations of neurons, how neural responses adjust to changes in the statistical distribution of sounds associated with different acoustic environments, and the capacity of the brain to compensate for the changes in inputs that result from hearing loss. He was awarded the Wellcome Prize in Physiology in 1990 and was made a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2011.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
Ferret
auditory system
auditory perception
multisensory integration

Competing interests statement
Andrew King receives funding for his research from the Wellcome Trust, the University of Oxford, and from Action on Hearing Loss. He serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Physiology and Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. He is a member of the Sir Henry Dale Fellowship Interview Committee, Action on Hearing Loss PhD Review Panel, Auditory Verbal UK Advisory Board, and the Agir Pour L’Audition Scientific Prize Committee.
Eve Marder

Brandeis University, United States

Eve Marder is the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis University. Marder is a Past President of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). Marder is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Biophysical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Society of Neuroethology. She received the Miriam Salpeter Award from WIN, the WF Gerard Prize from the SfN, the Miller Prize from the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, the Karl Spenser Lashley Prize from the American Philosophical Society, and the Gruber Prize in Neuroscience. Marder served on the NIH BRAIN Initiative working group. Marder studies the dynamics of small neuronal networks, and her work was instrumental in demonstrating that neuronal circuits are not "hard-wired" but are reconfigured by neuromodulators to produce a variety of outputs. She now studies the extent to which similar network performance can arise from different sets of network parameters.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
systems neuroscience
neurobiology
central pattern generators
neuromodulation
homeostasis
circuit dynamics
neuronal excitability
computational models of neuronal dynamics

Competing interests statement
Eve Marder is employed by Brandeis University. She receives research and training funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Leir Foundation, and the Swartz Foundation. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Janelia Farm. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association of Science, and a Fellow of the Biophysical Society. She presently serves on editorial boards of Current Biology, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, and Progress in Neurobiology.
Barbara G Shinn-Cunningham

Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham is an electrical engineer turned neuroscientist who uses behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational methods to understand auditory processing and perception. Her interests span from sensory coding in the cochlea to influences of brain networks on auditory processing in cortex (and everything in between). She is the Director of the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, a position she took up after over two decades on the faculty of Boston University. In her copious spare time, she competes in saber fencing and plays the oboe/English horn. She received the 2019 Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal and the 2013 Mentorship Award, both from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). She is a Fellow of the ASA and of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers, a lifetime National Associate of the National Research Council, and a recipient of fellowships from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, the Whitaker Foundation, and the Vannevar Bush Fellows program.

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory perception
auditory cognitive neuroscience
attention
sensory coding
fMRI
EEG
MEG
computational modeling

Experimental organism
human

Competing interests statement
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Department of Defense. She is on the editorial board of Auditory Perception and Cognition.
K VijayRaghavan

National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Vijay’s research aims to understand motor- and olfactory- circuit assembly: from deciphering how each component is made, interacts, and stabilises into functioning in the animal to allow behaviour in the real world. Related to the development of network function is its maintenance in the mature animal; another aspect of the work in the laboratory addresses how mature neurons and muscles are maintained. The laboratory uses a genetic approach, mainly using the fruit fly but also collaborating with those using mouse and cell-culture. VijayRaghavan is Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Science and Technology in the Department of Biotechnology. He temporarily holds additional charge of the Department of Biotechnology. VijayRaghavan’s research continues at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Bangalore, India, where he is Distinguished Professor. He studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His doctoral work was at TIFR, Mumbai and postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology. VijayRaghavan is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Associate of the European Molecular Biology Organization.

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Neuroscience

Research focus
genetics and genomics
developmental biology
neurogenetics
neurobiology
genetic basis of behavior

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
human
mouse

Competing interests statement
K VijayRaghavan currently receives research support from the Indo–French research agency CEFIPRA, and core support from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Previous support was from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), CEFIPRA, the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). VijayRaghavan serves on the Board of Governors of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the HHMI, Chair of the Research Council of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, and Member of the Governing Council of the National Institute of Immunology. He is Associate Editor of BMC Developmental Biology, and a member of the editorial boards of Development, Seminars in Developmental Biology, and Bioconcepts. He is Chair of the Board of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), a not-for-profit company of the National Centre for Biological Sciences and the stem cell institute, inStem, created to manage platform technologies and for technology transfer on the NCBS–inStem campus. He is a member of the board of the Madhuram Narayanan Centre for Exceptional Children, a not-for-profit school for disabled children in Chennai, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Human Frontier Science Program.
Gary Westbrook

Vollum Institute, United States

Gary Westbrook is a Senior Scientist and Co-Director of the Vollum Institute and Rocky and Julie Dixon Professor of Neurology at Oregon Health and Science University. Dr Westbrook is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neuroscience. He has received Javits and Merit awards from NIH for his research as well as an International Cooperation Award from the Max Planck Society. Dr Westbrook received his medical training and did graduate study in Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, followed by residencies in Internal Medicine and Neurology, and basic neuroscience research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Earlier work in his lab was mostly directed at the level of receptors, particularly N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, and the function of single synapses. The emphasis has now largely shifted to studies of small networks (microcircuits) in the hippocampus and olfactory system. Dr Westbrook maintains interests in clinical neurology, particularly epilepsy, as well as graduate research training – he currently serves as the director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at Vollum/OHSU.

Expertise
Neuroscience
Human Biology and Medicine

Research focus
clinical neurology
synaptic transmission
olfactory system
hippocampus
neuroscience
brain microcircuits
neurological diseases

Experimental organism
mouse

Competing interests statement
Gary Westbrook is employed by Oregon Health and Science University. He receives research and training funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Ellison Medical Foundation. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves on Scientific Advisory Boards for Max Planck Institutes in Göttingen (MPIEM) and Florida (MPFI), the Myelin Repair Foundation, and on study sections for the National Institutes of Health. He is currently a member of editorial boards for Physiological Reviews and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
Huda Zoghbi

Texas Children's Hospital, United States

Huda Zoghbi is Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology, Molecular and Human Genetics, and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. She is also an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital. Her research focuses on understanding normal brain development and on elucidating the pathogenesis of several neurological disorders including the autism spectrum disorder, Rett syndrome, and late-onset neurodegenerative diseases.

Expertise
Human Biology and Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
animal models of human disease and behavioural sciences
neurodegenerative disorders
polyglutamine disorders
autism
synaptic disorders
neurogenetics

Experimental organism
human

Competing interests statement
Huda Zoghbi is actively receiving funds from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institutes of Health, Rett Syndrome Research Trust, International Rett syndrome Foundation (and she is a member of advisory panels for all 4 organizations), Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Children’s Hospital. She is Associate Editor of Annual Reviews of Neuroscience and a member of the editorial team of Cell and Neuron. She is Vice-Chair of the McKnight Neuroscience Fund and a member of the following Scientific Advisory Panels: the Jane Coffin Childs Fund, Gruber Genetics Prize Jury, Janssen Prize Jury, Lasker Jury, and Vilcek Prize Jury. She was an elected member at large of the 2015 Class Membership Committee of the National Academy of Sciences.

Reviewing editors

D Nora Abrous

Neurocentre Magendie, INSERM, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurogenesis
pathophysiology

Experimental organism
mouse
Susan L Ackerman

University of California, San Diego, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurodegeneration
neurodevelopment
cerebellum
mouse genetics

Experimental organism
mouse
Woo-Young Ahn

Seoul National University, South Korea

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision neuroscience
reinforcement learning
computational modeling
computational psychiatry
Paola Arlotta

Harvard University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
murine cerebral cortex development
In vitro models
3D cerebral organoids
neural stem cells

Experimental organism
mouse
Adam Aron

University of California, San Diego, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognitive control
imaging
prefrontal cortex
basal ganglia
EEG
TMS
fMRI

Experimental organism
human
mouse
David Badre

Brown University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
prefrontal cortex
cognitive control
executive function
memory

Experimental organism
human
Marlene Bartos

University of Freiburg, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic transmission
GABAergic cells
network oscillations
synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
mouse
Allan Basbaum

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
pain
tissue and nerve injury
transgenic mice
neurobiology

Experimental organism
mouse
Hugo J Bellen

Baylor College of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
Drosophila neurobiology
Drosophila neurodegeneration
Drosophila technology

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Dwight Bergles

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
glia function
neuron-glia interactions
Upinder S Bhalla

National Centre for Biological Sciences, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
olfaction
hippocampus
computational neuroscience
olfactory bulb
antibody
synapses
signaling

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Anita Bhattacharyya

University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurodevelopmental disorders
brain development
pluripotent stem cell

Experimental organism
human
Brenda Bloodgood

University of California, San Diego, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic signaling
activity-dependent gene expression
animal behavior and disease states
hippocampus

Experimental organism
mouse
Alexander Borst

Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
visual processing
systems neuroscience
computational neuroscience

Experimental organism
Drosophila
Axel T Brunger

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
structural biology
synaptic transmission
neurotransmitters
Neil Burgess

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
hippocampus
episodic memory
spatial navigation
human short term memory

Experimental organism
human
rat
Megan R Carey

Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cerebellum
locomotion
motor learning

Experimental organism
mouse
Catherine Carr

University of Maryland, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory neuroscience
Marisa Carrasco

New York University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
visual perception
attention
cognitive psychology
neurophysiology
neuroimaging
Constance Cepko

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
developmental neurobiology
viral vectors
retina
blindness
Baron Chanda

University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
ion channels
voltage-gating
temperature-sensing
ligand-gating
allostery and dynamics
single molecule studies
fluorometry
Moses V Chao

New York University Langone Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
molecular and cellular neurobiology
signal transduction
trophic factors
receptors
Isaac Chiu

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroimmunology
pain
microglia
somatosensation
infection
Don Cleveland

University of California San Diego, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
mitosis
chromosome movement
spindle assembly
motor neuron disease
axonal growth
Cynthia M Czajkowski

University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
ligand-gated ion channels
structure-function
drug modulation
Yang Dan

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
sleep
hypothalamus
prefrontal cortex

Experimental organism
mouse
Graeme W Davis

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurodegeneration
neural development
synaptic transmission
plasticity

Experimental organism
Drosophila
Floris de Lange

Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
perception
prediction
attention
decision-making
neuroimaging

Experimental organism
human
Sachin Deshmukh

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
hippocampus
place cells
LEC
MEC
grid cells
theta oscillations
phase precession
tetrode
cognitive map
perirhinal cortex
olfactory bulb
spatial navigation
landmarks
path integration

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Claude Desplan

New York University, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
evo-devo
neural development
retina
vision
color vision
stochasticity

Experimental organism
Drosophila
ants
Jörn Diedrichsen

University of Western Ontario, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
motor control
fMRI

Experimental organism
human
Tobias H Donner

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
perception
decision-making
neuromodulation
brain network dynamics
neuroimaging

Experimental organism
human
Joel K Elmquist

UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
body weight homeostasis
central autonomic control
diabetes and glucose homeostasis
neurobiology and neuroanatomy of the hypothalamus
Birte Forstmann

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
magnetic resonance imaging
brain
decision making
model-based cognitive neuroscience

Experimental organism
human
John D Fryer

Mayo Clinic, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
neurodegeneration
Alzheimer's disease
microglia

Experimental organism
human
mouse
David D Ginty

HHMI, Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurotrophic factors
peripheral nervous system development
mechanosensory neurons
tactile processing
spinal cord

Experimental organism
mouse
Joseph G Gleeson

The Rockefeller University, United States

Expertise
Human Biology and Medicine
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology

Research focus
neurodevelopmental disease
brain development

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Alison Goate

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
dementia
addiction

Experimental organism
human
Yukiko Goda

RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic transmission
synapse cell biology

Experimental organism
rodents
mouse
Michel Goedert

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
tau
alpha-synuclein
neurodegeneration
protein misfolding
amyloid
Leslie C Griffith

Brandeis University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
behavioral biology
molecular neurobiology
electrophysiology

Experimental organism
Drosophila
Timothy D Griffiths

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory cognition
auditory perception
emotion
working memory
fMRI
brain disorders
Francois Guillemot

Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom

Expertise
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural stem cells
neural development

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Saskia Haegens

Columbia University, United States
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
brain oscillations
sensory systems
attention
decision making
EEG/MEG
electrophysiology
alpha rhythm
beta rhythm
Brandon Harvey

NIDA/NIH, Intramural Research Program, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience

Research focus
ER stress
ER calcium
neuroinflammation
viral vector
AAV
CNS
biomarkers
primary neurons and glia

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
human cells
Moritz Helmstaedter

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
connectomics
cerebral cortex
electron microscopy
image analysis

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Oliver Hobert

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
microRNAs
epigenetics
developmental neurobiology

Experimental organism
C. elegans
John Huguenard

Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
epilepsy
thalamocortical circuits
ion channels
synaptic transmission
Yuichi Iino

University of Tokyo, Japan

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
chemotactic behavior
behavioral genetics
behavioral plasticity
learning

Experimental organism
C. elegans
nematode
Muireann Irish

University of Sydney, Australia

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognition
dementia
neurodegeneration
episodic memory
neuroimaging

Experimental organism
human
Reinhard Jahn

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
membrane proteins
secretion
synaptic transmission
Erich D Jarvis

Rockefeller University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
neural and genetic mechanisms of speech production
Thorsten Kahnt

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
Neural and computational principles of learning and decision-making
psychophysics
computational modeling
TMS
fMRI

Experimental organism
human
Julie Kauer

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
neuronal modulation
addiction
chronic pain
electrophysiology

Experimental organism
mouse
Mary B Kennedy

California Institute of Technology, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
synaptic regulation
biochemical signal transduction networks
systems biology

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Eunjoon Kim

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Expertise
Human Biology and Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurodevelopmental disorders
synapse development and plasticity
synaptic transmission
Synapse formation

Experimental organism
mouse
David Kleinfeld

University of California, San Diego, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
active sensing
blood flow
brainstem
neuronal circuitry
optical imaging
sensorimotor control
Vibrissa
whisking
orofacial
vasculature

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Peter Latham

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
bayesian inference
network dynamics
neural coding
synaptic plasticity
Daeyeol Lee

Yale University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
decision making
reinforcement learning
prefrontal cortex
basal ganglia
neurophysiology

Experimental organism
human
rat
Rhesus macaque
Stephen Liberles

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
sensory neuroscience
olfaction
taste
vagus nerve
enteroendocrine
pheromone
gut-to-brain
interoception

Experimental organism
mouse
Huan Luo

Peking University, China

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
attention
auditory neuroscience
speech
sequence memory
EEG/MEG
neural dynamics

Experimental organism
human
Tamar Makin

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
plasticity
reorganisation
neuroimaging
body representation
sensorimotor control
assistive technology

Experimental organism
human
Gail Mandel

Oregon Health and Science University, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuronal gene expression
astrocyte biology

Experimental organism
mouse
Olivier Manzoni

Aix Marseille University, INSERM, INMED, France

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurophysiology
synaptic plasticity
synaptopathies
endocannabinoids
addiction
cannabis
autism
mental retardation
pathophysiology of synaptic plasticity
Carol Mason

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
visual system development
cell adhesion
axon guidance
neuron-glial interactions
Peggy Mason

University of Chicago, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
nociceptive modulation
pain
serotonin
empathy
bulbospinal modulation

Experimental organism
rat
Lisa Monteggia

UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
psychiatric disorders
depression
neurotrophin signaling
neurodevelopmental disorders

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Jeremy Nathans

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
developmental neurobiology
planar cell polarity
photoreceptors
vision
ophthalmology

Experimental organism
mouse
Klaus-Armin Nave

Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuron-glia interactions
myelin-associated diseases
oligodendrocytes
schwann cells
Mark T. Nelson

The University of Vermont, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
ion channels
calcium signaling
neurovascular coupling in the brain
vascular, cell and systems biology

Experimental organism
mouse
Sacha B Nelson

Brandeis University, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
genome-wide gene expression in the nervous system
cellular and systems neurophysiology
forebrain development and function
synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
other mammals
Timothy O'Leary

Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurobiology
control engineering
neuromodulation
neural circuits
feedback mechanisms
Harry Orr

University of Minnesota, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
molecular genetics
neurodegenerative disease
spinocerebellar ataxia
Stephanie Palmer

University of Chicago, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroscience of vision
neural computation
prediction

Experimental organism
rodents
Richard Palmiter

University of Washington, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
genetics and behaviour
body weight control
catecholamines
mitochondria

Experimental organism
mouse
Tatiana Pasternak

University of Rochester, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
high level vision
central visual pathways
visual attention
visual perception
working memory
prefrontal cortex
extrastriate cortex
motion perception

Experimental organism
macaque monkeys
Jonathan Peelle

Washington University in St. Louis, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
language
speech
auditory neuroscience
auditory
neuroimaging
fMRI
VBM
aging
hearing loss

Experimental organism
human
Serge Przedborski

Columbia University Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
dementia
neurodegeneration
mitochondria

Experimental organism
human
Louis Ptacek

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurogenetics
circadian rhythms
sleep
episodic disorders

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Mani Ramaswami

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
neurogenetics
neural circuits
olfaction
learning and memory
mechanisms of neuronal translational control
mRNA localization
synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
Drosophila
insects
Jan-Marino Ramirez

Seattle Children's Research Institute and University of Washington, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
rhythmic activity
rett syndrome
hypoxia
epilepsy

Experimental organism
mouse
Jennifer Raymond

Stanford School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural circuits
learning
synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
mouse
Tobias Reichenbach

Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
auditory neuroscience
cochlear mechanics
computational modelling
neuroimaging

Experimental organism
human
Fred Rieke

HHMI, University of Washington, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
non-human primates
computational neuroscience
biophysics

Experimental organism
mouse
Emilio Salinas

Wake Forest School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
perceptual decision making
neural circuit models
urgent choices
eye movement
monkey neurophysiology
vision
Helen Scharfman

New York University Langone Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
epileptogenesis
hippocampus
Geoffrey Schoenbaum

National Institute on Drug Abuse, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
orbitofrontal
dopamine
associative learning
neurophysiology
addiction

Experimental organism
rat
Kristin Scott

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
chemosensation
gustatory processing
Drosophila neuroscience
neural circuits
urgent choices
behavior

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Amita Sehgal

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
circadian rhythms
sleep
genetics
metabolism
aging

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Piali Sengupta

Brandeis University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
cilia biology
sensory biology
chemosensation
thermosensation

Experimental organism
C. elegans
Kang Shen

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
synapse
neuronal cytoskeleton
neuronal cell biology
developmental neurobiology
Frances K Skinner

Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Canada

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
mathematical modeling
hippocampus
inhibitory cells and microcircuits
nonlinear dynamics
oscillations
Inna Slutsky

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic transmission
short-term plasticity
alzheimer's disease

Experimental organism
rodents
Nahum Sonenberg

McGill University, Canada

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
protein synthesis
cell signalling and translation
translational control of memory
translation

Experimental organism
mouse
Beth Stevens

Boston Children's Hospital, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
neuron-glia interactions
synaptic pruning
phagocytic macrophages
microglia

Experimental organism
mouse
Karel Svoboda

Janelia Research Campus, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
cortex
somatosensation
imaging
calcium
neural circuits
sensorimotor
coding
synapse cell biology
dendrite

Experimental organism
mouse
Nicole C Swann

University of Oregon, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
movement
movement disorders
electrophysiology
Deep brain stimulation

Experimental organism
human
Kenton J Swartz

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Neuroscience

Research focus
ion channel structure and mechanisms
ion channel regulation by toxins and drugs
voltage-sensing
temperature-sensing
lipid-protein interactions

Experimental organism
human
J Paul Taylor

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
neurological disorders
RNA granules
protein quality control

Experimental organism
Drosophila
human
Vatsala Thirumalai

National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neural circuits
cerebellum
Purkinje neurons
biophysics
motor systems
electrophysiology

Experimental organism
zebrafish
Fadel Tissir

University of Louvain, Belgium

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
Development of the nervous system
planar cell polarity
neurogenesis
neuronal migration
axon guidance
cortical malformations
ciliogenesis

Experimental organism
mouse
Doris Y Tsao

California Institute of Technology, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
monkey neurophysiology
monkey vision
mouse vision
neural circuit models
human brain stimulation with ultrasound
mathematical modeling
Naoshige Uchida

Harvard University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
olfaction
perceptual decision making
learning
dopamine
cognition
basal ganglia

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Eilon Vaadia

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
motor cortex
sensorimotor learning
brain machine interface
cortical dynamics
neuronal synchrony
oscillations
active inference
motor control
Vadita Vaidya

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurocircuitry of emotion
depression
behavioural disorders

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Mark CW van Rossum

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
computational neuroscience
synaptic plasticity
noise in neural systems
the early visual system
retina
Gaël Varoquaux

INRIA, France

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
human brain connectivity
machine learning

Experimental organism
human
Patrik Verstreken

VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
neurodegeneration
synaptic communication
vesicle recycling at synapses

Experimental organism
Drosophila
human
mouse
Timothy Verstynen

Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
cognition
decision-making
white matter
brain sensorimotor pathways
plasticity
action planning
decision making
complex skill learning
obesity
basal ganglia
striatum
drift diffusion models
attractor networks

Experimental organism
human
Kate Wassum

University of California Los Angeles, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
behavioural neuroscience
systems neuroscience
learning and memory
motivation
reward
decision making
rodent models
addiction

Experimental organism
rat
Andrew West

Duke University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
neurological disorders
neurodegeneration

Experimental organism
human
rodents
Anne West

Duke University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
transcriptional mechanisms
synapse development and plasticity
Doris Wu

National Institutes of Health, Section on Sensory Cell Regeneration and Development, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology

Research focus
inner ear development
vestibular and cochlear patterning and development

Experimental organism
chicken
mouse
zebrafish
Claire Wyart

Institut du Cerveau et la Moelle épinière, France

Expertise
Neuroscience
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
spinal cord
hindbrain
midbrain
sensory systems
motor systems

Experimental organism
zebrafish
mouse
macaque
Gary Yellen

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
neuronal metabolism and excitability
fluorescent biosensors
ion channels
Thomas Yeo

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Expertise
Neuroscience

Research focus
fMRI
brain connectivity

Experimental organism
human