CNLM Expert Database
![]() Aaron Bornstein, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Cognitive Sciences Expertise: Affect and memory, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Episodic memory, fMRI, EEG |
![]() Aaron Mattfeld, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Expertise: Learning and memory, Development, Neurodevelopment, Disorders, Teaching practices |
![]() Aimee Pierce, M.D.Associate Professor, Neurology Expertise: Neurology, Aging, Alzheimer's disease |
![]() Albert R. La Spada, M.D., Ph.D.Professor of Pathology Expertise: Neurodegeneration, neurotherapeutics, neurogenetics, translational neuroscience |
![]() Alicia Izquierdo, Ph.D.Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience Expertise: Chemogenetics, In vivo imaging, Learning under uncertainty, Flexible learning, Reward learning, Value-based decision making |
![]() Alyson Zalta, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Psychological Science Expertise: PTSD, Trauma, Transdiagnostic emotional, Risk/resilience, Prevention and Treatment |
![]() Amal Alachkar, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Teaching, Pharmaceutical Sciences Expertise: Neural correlates of mental states, Schizophrenia, mechanisms of psychiatric disorders, Depression, Bipolar disorder,, Cognition, Cilia |
![]() Andre Obenaus, Ph.D.Professor, Pediatrics Expertise: MRI, Traumatic brain injury, Brain vasculature, Early life stress, Animal aging, Aging, Stroke |
![]() Andrea Nicholas, Ph.D.Lecturer PSOE, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Learning and Memory in the classroom, Educational methods, Active learning |
![]() Andrea Tenner, Ph.D.Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Expertise: Innate immunity, Inflammation, Cell surface receptors, Alzheimer's disease |
![]() Andrew Maurer, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Expertise: Aging, Entorhinal cortex, Hippocampus, Neurophysiology, Perirhinal cortex |
![]() Angela Lukowski, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Psychological Science Expertise: Early-life experience, Memory development in infancy, Long-term memory in infancy, Impact of early nutrition in development |
![]() Arielle Tambini, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Systems-level mechanisms, Long-term memory consolidation, Transcranial magnetic stimulation |
![]() Autumn Ivy, M.D., Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Pediatric Neurology, Pediatrics Expertise: Early-life experience, Epigenetics, Neurology, Exercise |
![]() Barbara Dosher, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Cognitive Sciences Expertise: Perceptual learning, Human information processing, Visual perception, Memory retrieval |
![]() Barbara Knowlton, Ph.D.Professor, Department of Psychology |
![]() Barry Setlow, Ph.D.Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Expertise: Nicotine, Neurobiology, Drug addiction, Diazepam |
![]() Benno Roozendaal, Ph.D.Professor, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Expertise: Stress, Amygdala, Hippocampus, Learning and memory, PTSD, Emotional Arousal |
![]() Bin Nan, Ph.D.Professor, Statistics Expertise: High-dimensional statistics, Imaging analysis, Longitudinal analysis, Statistical learning |
![]() Bruce McNaughton, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Computational models, Hippocampus, Learning and memory, Plasticity, Spatial memory, Neurophysiology |
![]() Bryce Mander, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Expertise: Sleep disorders, Cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease, Memory, Neurodegeneration |
![]() Charan Ranganath, Ph.D.Professor, Psychology Expertise: EEG, Eye-tracking, Patient research, Intracranial recording, tDCS, Salivating dogs, fMRI |
![]() Charles G. Glabe, Ph.D.Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Expertise: Neuroinflammation, Immunotherapy, Neurodegeneration |
![]() Charles Limoli, Ph.D.Professor, Radiation Oncology Expertise: Oxidative stress, Hippocampal neurogenesis, Chemo-brain, Neuronal transplantation, Memory |
![]() Christie Fowler, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Drug addiction, Genetics, Dopamine, Motivated behaviors |
![]() Christine Gall, Ph.D.Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology Expertise: Adult plasticity, Memory encoding, Synaptic modulators, Neurotrophic factors |
![]() Christine N. Smith, Ph.D.Assistant Adjunct Professor, Psychiatry |
![]() Chuansheng Chen, Ph.D.Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological Science and Education Expertise: Cross-cultural Psychology, Cognitive neuroscience, Adolescent development, Behavior Genetics |
![]() Claudia Kawas, M.D.Professor, Neurology Expertise: Aging, Alzheimer's disease, Epidiemology, Longetivity |
![]() Craig Stark, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Memory, Hippocampus, Neuroimaging, fMRI, Aging, Video games |
![]() Craig Walsh, Ph.D.Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry |
![]() Daniela Bota, M.D., Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neurology |
![]() Daniele Piomelli, Ph.D.Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology Expertise: Cellular pharmacology, Neuropharmacology |
![]() David Reinkensmeyer, Ph.D.Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Expertise: Neuromuscular control, Stroke rehab, Motor learning, Robotics, Computational models |
![]() DeWayne P. Williams, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Psychological Science Expertise: Social health psychology, health disparities, psychophysiology, discrimination, stigma, prejudice, stereotyping, stress and health, self-regulation |
![]() Diane O’Dowd, Ph.D.Professor, Developmental & Cell Biology Expertise: Molecular genetics, Drugs, Induced pluripotent stem cells, Functional plasticity, Neuronal maturation |
![]() Douglas Granger, Ph.D.Chancellor’s Professor, Psychological Science Expertise: Salivary bioscience, Emotion, Circadian rhythms |
![]() Eitan Schechtman, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Sleep, Cognitive neuroscience, Memory |
![]() Elizabeth Head, Ph.D.Professor of Pathology Keywords: Systems neuroscience, organization of long-term memories, amnesia, aging, Alzheimer’s disease, hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, retrosplenial cortex, hippocampal-cortical interactions Expertise: Systems Neuroscience, Long-term memory consolidation, Amnesia, Aging, Alzheimer's disease, Hippocampus, Entorhinal cortex, Retrosplenial Cortex, Hippocampal-cortical interactions |
![]() Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Psychological Science Expertise: False memories, Eyewitness testimony, Psychology and law, Criminology |
![]() Elizabeth Martin, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Psychological Science Expertise: Neural Networks, Learning and memory, Transdiagnostic emotional, Affective control and regulation, |
![]() Federico Bermudez-Rattoni, Ph.D.Professor, Department of Cognitive Neurosciences |
![]() Frances Leslie, Ph.D.Professor, Pharmacology Expertise: Neuropharmacology, Drugs and abuse, Adolescence, Prenatal period, Neural development, Drug addiction |
![]() Francesco Battaglia, Ph.D.Professor, Cognition and Behavior Expertise: Memory encoding |
![]() Frank LaFerla, Ph.D.Dean School of Biological Sciences Expertise: Molecular biology, Transgenic mouse models, Learning and memory, Alzheimer's disease |
![]() Gary Lynch, Ph.D.Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Expertise: LTP, Computational models, Cognitive disorders, Glutamate receptors, Synaptic plasticity |
![]() Georg Striedter, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Evolutionary neurobiology, Animal behavior |
![]() Gregory Brewer, Ph.D.Professor, Biomedical Engineering Expertise: Memory, Alzheimer's disease, Neuronal networks, in vitro physiology |
![]() Gregory S. Hickok, Ph.D.Professor, Cognitive Sciences Expertise: Plasticity, Neuroimaging, Cognitive neuroscience |
![]() Gyorgy Lur, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Neural signal integration, Chronic and acute stress, Cognitive behavior, Optical techniques |
![]() Ivan Izquierdo, Ph.D.Professor, Department of Neuroscience |
![]() J. Zoe Klemfuss, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Psychological Science Expertise: Narrative development, Children’s autobiographical memory, Sociocontextual influences on children’s narrative, memory, and well-being, Children’s eyewitness abilities |
![]() Jack Lin, M.D.Director, UC Irvine Comprehensive Epilepsy Program Expertise: Emotional processing, Learning and memory, Epilepsy, Electrocorticohgraphy, Clinical neurophysiology |
![]() James McGaugh, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Emotional modulation of memory, Arousal, Memory consolidation, Superior autobiographical memory |
![]() Javier Diaz Alonso, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Expertise: Cellular mechanisms of plasticity, Cannabinoids |
![]() Jeffrey Krichmar, Ph.D.Professor, Cognitive Sciences Expertise: Computational neuroscience, Decision making, Robotics, Spatial navigation |
![]() Jenna Riis, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Psychological Science Expertise: Early Life Adversity, Stress, Child Development, Public Health, Salivary bioscience |
![]() Jennifer Bizon, Ph.D.Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology Expertise: Adult plasticity, Memory encoding, Synaptic modulators, Neurotrophic factors |
![]() Jill Leutgeb, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences |
![]() Joaquin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Psychology Expertise: Stroke, Brain trauma, Alzheimer's, Schizophrenia |
![]() Jodi Quas, Ph.D.Professor, Psychological Science Expertise: Legal system, Trauma, Children, Memory |
![]() John F. Guzowski, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Learning, Synaptic plasticity, Gene expression, Memory, Hippocampus |
![]() John Marshall, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Recovery of function, Basal ganglia motor systems, Brain injury, Neurodegeneration |
![]() Jorge Busciglio, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Down's syndrome, Mitochondrial dysfunction, Alzheimer's disease, Neurodegeneration |
![]() Julian Thayer, Ph.D. Professor, Psychological Science Expertise: health disparities, heart rate variability, Emotion, Stress, Health psychology, psychopathology, |
![]() Julie Lauterborn, Ph.D.Research Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology Expertise: Intellectual disability, Down syndrome, Autism, Stress, Learning and memory |
![]() Kalina J. Michalska, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Psychology Expertise: Developmental neuroscience, fMRI, development of empathy, fear learning and memory, conduct disorder, pediatric anxiety |
![]() Karina Cramer, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Neural development, Plasticity, Synaptogenesis, Auditory Brainstem |
![]() Kasia Bieszczad, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Psychology Expertise: Auditory Cortex, Tonotopic map, Sensory Physiology, Behavioral psychology, Histone Acetylation, Representational plasticity, Epigenetics |
![]() Katherine Thompson-Peer, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Developmental & Cell Biology |
![]() Kei Igarashi, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology Expertise: Memory, Olfaction, Entorhinal cortex, Electrophysiology, Hippocampus |
![]() Kelsey Martin, Ph.D.Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine |
![]() Kevin T. Beier, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Physiology & Biophysics Expertise: Neural Networks, Molecular neuroscience, Behavior, Viral-genetic |
![]() Kim Green, Ph.D.Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, Neuroinflammation, Aging, Therapeutics |
![]() Kristina A. Uban, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Public Health |
![]() Lara Rangel, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science Expertise: Rhythmic coordination of brain activity, information processing in neural networks, dynamic interactions between neurons, Learning, Memory, neuromodulation |
![]() Laura Colgin, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience |
![]() Laura DeNardo, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Physiology Expertise: Neurodevelopment, Learning and memory, Neural Circuits, Neural plasticity, Anxiety Disorders, Early life stress |
![]() Laura Ewell, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Expertise: Cellular mechanisms of plasticity, Cannabinoids |
![]() Lee Bardwell, Ph.D.Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology |
![]() Leslie Thompson, Ph.D.Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Expertise: Human genetic disorders, Precision medicine, Huntingtons' disease, Genomics, Therapeutics |
![]() Linda Levine, Ph.D.Professor, Psychological Science Expertise: Cognitive development, Emotional development, Emotions, attention and memory |
![]() Lisa Flanagan, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neurology Expertise: Neural stem cell differentiation, Development, Stem cell transplantation |
![]() Liz Chrastil, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Navigation, Spatial memory, Virtual reality, Episodic memory |
![]() Lulu Y Chen, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Expertise: Neurodevelopment, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Schizophrenia, Synapse formation |
![]() Marcelo Wood, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior |
![]() Mark Mapstone, Ph.D.Professor, Neurology \ Expertise: Cognitive aging, Neuropsychology, Biomarkers, Cognitive phenotyping, Amnesia, Metabolomics |
![]() Mark Mayford, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neuroscience |
![]() Mark Steyvers Ph.D.Professor, Cognitive Sciences Expertise: Wisdom of crowds, Aggregating human judgements, Machine learning and statistics, Computational models |
![]() Mathew Blurton-Jones, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Stem cells, Parkinson disease, Alzheimer's, Neurogenesis |
![]() Megan Peters, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science Expertise: Perception, metacognition, consciousness, fMRI, Computational models |
![]() Melissa Sharpe, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Psychology Expertise: Dopamine, Lateral Hypothalamus, Reinforcement Learning, Behavioral neuroscience, Optogenetics |
![]() Michael Alkire, M.D.Associate Professor, Anesthesiology Expertise: Functional brain imaging, Anesthesia, memory and pain processing |
![]() Michael Fanselow, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience |
![]() Michael Hasselmo, Ph.D.Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences Expertise: Acetylcholine, Episodic memory, Theta rhythm, Entorhinal cortex, Hippocampus, Retrosplenial Cortex, Presynaptic inhibition, Persistent spiking |
![]() Michael Lee, Ph.D.Professor, Cognitive Sciences Expertise: Cognitive modeling, Memory models, Bayesian statistics, Decision making |
![]() Michael Leon, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, Olfactory processing, Aging, Autism |
![]() Michael Yassa, Ph.D.Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, Neurobiology and Behavior |
![]() Mimi Liljeholm, Ph.D.Assistant Professo, Cognitive Sciences Expertise: Bayesian inference, Reasoning, Social cognition, Reinforcement Learning, Decision making, Drug addiction |
![]() Momoko Watanabe, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology Expertise: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Neurodevelopment, Stem cells, Brain organoids, Tissue engineering, Neurological disorders |
![]() Norbert Fortin, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Hippocampus, Prefrontal cortex, Electrophysiology, Behavioral neuroscience |
![]() Oswald Steward, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Regeneration, Sprouting, Excitotoxicity, Cellular mechanisms of plasticity, Spinal Cord Injury |
![]() Paul Gold, Ph.D.Professor, Department of Biology Expertise: Aging, Learning and memory, Plasticity, Psychiatric conditions, Neurological conditions, Cell signaling and communication |
![]() Pierre Baldi, Ph.D.Chancellor's Professor, Information and Computer Sciences Expertise: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, Theoretical foundations and applications |
![]() Raju Metherate, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Neurophysiology, Synaptic physiology of auditory cortex, Sensory plasticity, Nicotine |
![]() Ralph Adolphs, Ph.D.Bren Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology |
![]() Richard Morris, Ph.D.Professor, Neuroscience Expertise: Synapses, Circuits, Behavior, Learning |
![]() Robert Clark, Ph.D.Professor, Department of Psychiatry |
![]() Robert Hunt, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology Expertise: Electrophisiology, Hippocampal plasticity, Stem cells, Neural Networks |
![]() Robert James Sutherland, Ph.D.Professor & Chair in the Department of Neuroscience Expertise: Learning and memory, Amnesia, Systems Neuroscience, Alzheimer's disease, Hippocampus, Long-term memory consolidation |
![]() Robert Spitale, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences \ Expertise: Neurochemistry, Chemical biology, RNA biology, RNA therapeutics for learning and memory disorders |
![]() Ron Frostig, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Sensory neocortex, Cortical plasticity, Optical imaging |
![]() Ruth Benca, M.D., Ph.D.Chair, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Expertise: Sleep and memory, Obstructive sleep apnea, High-density EEG, Depression, Mental Health |
![]() Sara Burke, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Expertise: Aging, Entorhinal cortex, Hippocampus, Memory, Neurophysiology, Perirhinal cortex |
![]() Sara Mednick, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Cognitive Science Expertise: Sleep, Pharmacology, Psychophysics, Aging and disease, EEG, fMRI, Memory consolidation |
![]() Sean B. Ostlund, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care Expertise: Behavior, Reward, Optogenetic, Dysregulation, Disorders, Maladaptive behavior |
![]() Shahrdad Lotfipour, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences Expertise: Learning and memory, Development, Limbic brain, Drug-seeking, Gut-Brain axis, Maternal drug exposure, Reward |
![]() Stefan Leutgeb, Ph.D.Professor, Department of Neurobiology |
![]() Stephan Anagnostaras, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Psychology |
![]() Stephen Maren, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor and Charles H. Gregory Chair of Liberal Arts Expertise: Amygdala, Hippocampus, Emotional learning and memory, Prefrontal cortex, Fear conditioning, Extinction, Context-specific behavior |
![]() Steven Mahler, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Drug addiction, Reward, Pavlonian conditioning, Motivation, Executive function, Cannabinoids |
![]() Sunil P. Gandhi, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Critical period plasticity, Interneurons, Neuronal transplantation, Brain clearing |
![]() Susan Charles, Ph.D.Professor, Psychological Science Expertise: Emotional processing, Subjective experience, Health and emotion |
![]() Susana Cohen-Cory, Ph.D.Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior Expertise: Synapse formation, In vivo imaging |
![]() Susanne Jaeggi, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Education Expertise: Memory, Plasticity, Executive control, Cognitive training |
![]() Sven Bernecker, Ph.D.Professor, Philosophy Expertise: Epistemology and memory, Mnemonic confabulation, Epistemic benefits of memory's imperfections |
![]() Tallie Z. Baram, M.D., Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics, Neurobiology & Behavior Expertise: Stress-memory interaction, Sex-differences, Early life stress, brain circuit maturation, Reward, PTSD, Anhedonia, CRH |
![]() Theo G.M. van Erp, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior |
![]() Timothy Allen, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Expertise: Cognition, Mental Health, Hippocampus, Prefrontal cortex, Animal models, Learning and memory, Behavior |
![]() Timothy Bredy, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior |
![]() Uma Rao, M.D.Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Expertise: Adolescence, Depression, Substance abuse, Neurobiology, Risk/resilience |