Members
Our members are investigators who study autism and related neurodevelopmental disorder. Browse the list below to learn more about them and their work.
Shepherd, Gordon MG
Professor of Neuroscience
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Local synaptic circuits in motor-frontal cortex engage in neural operations underlying many aspects of cognition and behavior – motor control, executive functions, working memory, and more – yet circu... [more]
Smith, Richard S
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Swanson, Geoffrey T
Professor of Pharmacology and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
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My research focuses predominantly on understanding physiological processes mediated by glutamate receptors, which are signaling proteins that respond to glutamate, the predominant excitatory neurotran... [more]
Watterson, Daniel Martin
Professor of Pharmacology
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The elucidation of eukaryotic signal transduction pathways, the study of signal transduction pathway perturbation in disease or injury, and the utilization of this knowledgebase for rational drug disc... [more]
Weiss, Craig
Research Professor of Neuroscience
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learning and memory, multiple single-unit electrophysiology, fMRI, behavior, classical conditioning, rabbit, transgenic mice, knockout mice, alzheimer's disease, hippocampus, cerebellum, aging
Wu, Jane Y
Professor of Neurology (Neuromuscular Disease)
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My primary research interests are in molecular mechanisms of gene regulation, particularly those involved in neural development and neural degeneration. My lab is focusing on two areas, RNA regulation... [more]