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Neuroscience Concentration

-We study the only organ that can study itself

Golde Lab

http://neuroscience.ufl.edu/education/

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Concentration Directors:

Dr. Harry NickDr. Jada Lewis

Chair, Department of Neuroscience:

Dr. Lucia Notterpek

NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE

Hemorrhagic Stroke

Transgenic Alzheimer’s Mouse Models

Demyelinating Disorders

Movement DisordersAlzheimer’s Disease

NEURODEVELOPMENT andSENSORY SYSTEMS

Cilia in Normal Brain Development, Neurological Disease and Cancer

Taste Signaling and Obesity

Obesity?

Olfactory Function

ADDICTION AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

Drug Self-AdministrationRisky Decision MakingRodent Behavioral Models

Nicotine-induced BOLD signalingNeuroImaging

Human Behavior and Cognition

Cellular Mechanisms

Driving SimulatorAssessing Brain Activity With EEG

Dopamine, amphetamine and methamphetamine i t fi i f d i

AGE-RELATED MEMORY LOSS

In Vivo Neurophysiology in Behaving Rodents

Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity

NMDAR-mediated synaptic potentials are reduced in CA1 of aged hippocampus

Adult Neurogenesis

GABA Signalingin Prefrontal Cortex

Spatial Memory (Water Maze)

Working Memory and Decision Making

Object-Place Associations

AssessingRodent Memory

BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD REPAIR

Chronic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Hypoxia Effects on Phrenic Nerve

Neurophysiologically-guided anterograde tracing of axons originating within the VRC T1 and T2-weighted image of surviving spinal cord

transplant in cat and Syringomyelia transplant patient

Spinal Cord Transplant

Functional Assessment of Neural Connectivity

Neurophysiological Assessment

EVOLUTION OF NEURAL SYSTEMS

• Mt. Sinai School of Medicine – Dr. Ethan Anderson• Bringham Women’s Hospital, Harvard University- Dr. Mark DeAndrade• National Institute on Aging- Dr. Cristina Banuelos• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill- Dr. Rachel Bailey• National Institute of Mental Health-Sofia Beas• University of Chicago- Dr. Sara Guadiana• University of Alabama, Birmingham- Dr. Kim Hawkins• University of California, San Francisco- Dr. Joo-In Jung• University of Wisconsin‐Madison- Dr. Wei‐Hua Lee• Yale University- Dr. Marci Mitchell• University of Washington –Dr. Sara Mondello• Baylor College of Medicine- Dr. Karienn Montgomery

Placement of Recent Neuroscience Graduates