Neuroscience Research in Other Depts. at SUNY Downstate
Anatomy and Cell Biology:
M.A.Q. Siddiqui, Ph.D. (Chair) muscle gene expression; Paulette Bernd, Ph.D., neurotrophins and development; Angel Cinelli, M.D., Ph.D., olfactory dendritic neural activity; Mimi Halpern, Ph.D., olfaction and development; M.A. Khan, Ph.D., neuromuscular disorders; John Kubie, Ph.D., the hippocampus in learning and memory; Kathryn Miles, Ph.D., nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; Frank Scalia, Ph.D., optic nerve regeneration.
Biochemistry:
Alfred Stracher, Ph.D. (Chair) proteases and muscle; Richard Feinman, Ph.D., invertebrate learning and proteins; Alan Gintzler, Ph.D., opiate receptors and addiction; Julie Rushbrook, Ph.D., enzymes and muscle development.
Neurosurgery:
Thomas Milhorat, M.D. (Chair) syringomyelia; Roxanne Todor, M.D., cerebral aneurysm formation and blood flow monitoring.
Pathology:
Suzanne Mirra, M.D.* (Chair) Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Physiology and Pharmacology:
Robert Wong, Ph.D.*, (Chair), intracellular signaling and hippocampal circuits; Vahe Amassian M.B.*, transcranial magnetic stimulation; Peter Bergold, Ph.D., second messengers and synaptic plasticity; Diana Dow-Edwards, Ph.D., brain imaging and cocaine; Steven Fox, Ph.D., hippocampal EEG rhythms; Robert Furchgott, Ph.D., nitric oxide and the endothelium; Phyllis Gootman, Ph.D., development of neural control of cardiorespiratory function; Ira Kass, Ph.D., mechanisms of hippocampal anoxia; Annette Kirchgessner, Ph.D., enteric nervous system; Hillary Michelson-Law, Ph.D., development of inhibitory neuronal circuits; Robert Muller, Ph.D., the hippocampus in navigation and learning; Nicholas Penington, Ph.D., regulation of serotonergic transmission; Katherine Perkins, Ph.D., depolarizing GABAergic transmission; James Ranck, Jr., M.D., limbic neuron firing and navigation modeling; Armin Stelzer, M.D., Ph.D.*, plasticity and regulation of GABAergic receptors; Mark Stewart, M.D., Ph.D., limbic system neurons; Henri Tiedge, Ph.D.*, neuronal RNA transport and protein synthesis; Keith Williams, Ph.D., glutamate receptors in hippocampus.
Psychiatry:
Henri Begleiter, Ph.D., neuroimaging and alcoholism genetics; Carl Cohen, M.D., Alzheimer's disease and dementias.
Joint appointment in *Neurology.
