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James Augustine

Dept Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience

USC School of Medicine

Neuroanatomy, Insular Cortex, Estrogen & cognition

James Fadel

Dept Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience

USC School of Medicine

Antipsychotics, dopamine, acetylcholine, orexin, microdialysis & neuroanatomy

Janet L. Fisher

Dept Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience

USC School of Medicine

GABAA receptors, epilepsy, ion channel structure & function, patch clamping

Alexander J. McDonald

Dept Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience

USC School of Medicine

Amygdalar neuroanatomy and neurochemistry, epilpesy

Lawrence P. Reagan

Dept Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience

USC School of Medicine

Hippocampus, glucose transporters, diabetes & cognition, stress & glucocorticoids

L. Britt  Wilson

Dept Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience

USC School of Medicine

Cardiovascular regulation in spinal cord, nociception

Marlene A. Wilson

Dept Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience

USC School of Medicine

Amygdala, anxiety and anxiolytics, epilepsy & anticonvulsants, GABAA receptors, sex differences

Steven P. Wilson

Dept Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience

USC School of Medicine

Virus-mediated gene transfer, nocicipetion, opioid peptides

Sandra J. Kelly

Psychology

Fetal alcohol syndrome, social behaviors, amygdala, hippocampus, sex differences

Rosemarie M Booze

Psychology

Cocaine & nicotine, sex differences & estrogen effects, NeuroAIDs, neurotoxicity

Charles Mactutus

Psychology

Developmental neurotoxicity, attention & cognition, cocaine & nicotine,  NeuroAIDs

Sarah M Sweitzer

Dept Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience

USC School of Medicine

Neurodevelopment of nocicipetion, opioid peptides

 

  Jim Buggy

Dept Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience

USC School of Medicine

Hypothalamic control of  homeostasis; body fluid regulation

 

James R. (Jay) Coleman

Psychology

Epilepsy, neural development, auditory systems, neural repair, inferior colliculus, GABA

Gregory Hand

Department of Exercise Science

Stress & anxiety, physical activity, acupuncture in HIV+ patients

David Mott

Dept Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience

USC School of Medicine

Glutamate & Epilepsy

 

    Donald Powell

VA Research; Dorn VA Hospital

Prefrontal cortex, associative learning, amygdala

 

 

Jack Ginsberg

VA Research; Dorn VA Hospital & Neuropsychiatry & Behavioral Science; USC School of Medicine
Neuropathology of PTSD, Clinical neuroscience

James B. Appel(il professore)

Psychology

Drug discrimination, psychostimulants (cocaine, MDMA, amphetamine), hallucinogens (LSD, PCP)

 

Harry Wright

Neuropsychiatry & Behavioral Science

USC School of Medicine
 

Autism, Molecular Epidemiology of autism