Neurobiology of cocaine addiction

Gene therapies to promote the regrowth of axons in the injured spinal cord and brain

Central mechanisms of energy regulation through serotonin and/or neuropeptide interactions and feeding behavior

Stress neurobiology, neuroanatomy, neuroendocrinology

How environmental and genetic factors affect circadian clock function

Neurobiology of stress; Cellular mechanisms underlying stress hormone action

Synaptic transmission and plasticity in drug abuse

How prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and amygdala functionally interact to form, store, and retrieve emotional memory

How modifications of cellular dynamics and synaptic strength can control behavior in normal and diseased states

Mechanisms of cell death in neurodegenerative diseases, neurotrophic factors, stroke

Molecular mechanisms underlying alcohol-induced regulation

of the NMDA receptor

Information is processing in the cerebellar cortex, interactions of GABAergic stellate and basket cells, Bergmann glia astrocytes, and monoamines

Statistical modeling of neural activity and behavior

Neural regulation of affect and motivated behavior