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Neuroscience

College of Humanities and Social & Behavioral Sciences

Dr. Gary Dunbar, Director

Health Professions Building 2182; 989-774-3282

Jamie Alan, Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Regulation of signal transduction pathways as they relate to development of cancer in c. elegans and in cultured human cells.

Richard W. Backs, Ph.D., University of Southern California. Human factors, psychophysiology, aging, attention, and emotion

Gary Dunbar, Ph.D., Clark University. Stem cell, dietary supplements, and pharmacological therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s diseases

Kenneth Jenrow, Ph.D., Oakland University. Electrophysiology, mitigating neuroinflammation and its deleterious effects on synaptic plasticity and cognitive function.

Jamie Johansen, Ph.D., Michigan State University. Developing reliable mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Kennedy’s diseases, for testing potential therapies

Yannick Marchalant, Ph.D., université de Caen, France. Influence of brain aging and neuroinflammatory processes on the development of neurodegenerative diseases.

Kevin Park, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Molecular genetics and neurobiology of neurodegenerative diseases, preclinical therapeutic development.

Mark Reilly, Ph.D., West Virginia University. Experimental analysis of behavior, operant/respondent conditioning, animal learning, quantitative models, behavioral pharmacology, and substance abuse

Julien Rossignol, Ph.D., Nantes University, France. Molecular biology, cellular biology, and immunology. Optimizing adult stem cell transplantation technology in the context of neurodegenerative diseases.

Michael Sandstrom, Ph.D., Ohio State University. Assessing brain plasticity, compensatory neuronal activity, or neurochemical control during active behavior at various stages of deteriorative brain diseases such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s using animal models

Reid Skeel, Ph.D., University of Florida. Functional applications of neuropsychological assessments.

Michelle Steinhilb, Ph.D., genetic models of human neurodegenerative disease, cellular and molecular neurobiology

Ksenia Ustinova, Ph.D, Russian State University of Sport. Motor control and learning, rehabilitation of patients with neurological diseases including stroke, spinocerebellar ataxia, Parkinson’s disease

Course Designator:

NSC - Neuroscience

The Programs:

Master of Science (M.S.) in Neuroscience

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Neuroscience