“Iowa City is a nice place to live, especially when you're in grad school. It's similar to many other college towns in being very progressive and full of well-educated people.”
Research and teaching in the neurosciences at Iowa are consolidated in three partially overlapping research tracks.
Faculty members may be associated with more than one research track.
| Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D. |
Brain imaging in the major psychoses |
| Warren Darling, Ph.D. |
Control of posture and movement |
| Natalie Denburg, Ph.D. |
Prefrontal Brain Structures, Aging, and Decision-Making |
| Melissa C Duff |
Memory, communication and social interaction |
| Robert Franciscus Ph.D. |
Craniofacial evolution in Genus Homo |
| John Freeman, Ph.D. |
Neurobiology of learning and memory |
| Jean K. Gordon, Ph.D. |
Lexical Access in Normal and Disordered Systems |
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| Eliot Hazeltine, Ph.D. |
Representing and Selecting Action |
| Richard Hurtig, Ph.D. |
Invariant properties of human perception and information processing, with an emphasis on the underlying neural mechanisms |
| Toshihiro Kitamoto, Ph.D. |
Genetics of complex behavior |
| Irwin Levin |
Decision Neuroscience |
| Vince Magnotta, Ph.D. |
Structural and functional imaging to study brain disorders |
| David Moser, Ph.D. |
Vascular disease and cognition in the elderly |
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| Peg Nopoulos, M.D. |
Brain Structure / Function Relationships using MRI and cognitive/behavioral assessment |
| Daniel O'Leary Ph.D. |
Human cognitive function and its neural basis; neuroimaging |
| Sergio Paradiso, M.D., Ph.D. |
Relationship between emotion processing and psychopathology, and between neuropsychological functioning and mood, in neuropsychiatric disorders and late-life |
| Jane Paulsen, Ph.D. |
Neural basis of cognition; preclinical deficits in dementia gene-carriers; frontal subcortical deficits, particularly Huntington's disease |
| Matthew Rizzo, M.D. |
behavioral neurology, cognitive neuroscience, vision, neuroergonomics |
| Robert G Robinson, M.D. |
Neuropsychiatry/neurobehavior |
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| David Rudrauf, Ph.D. |
Functional neuroanatomy, neurodynamics and functional brain imaging. |
| Daniel T Tranel, Ph.D. |
Neuropsychological and neuroanatomical correlates of complex human behavior |
| Christopher W Turner, Ph.D. |
Auditory perception and hearing loss |
| Ergun Uc, M.D. |
Driving and cognitive function in Parkinson's disease; Body composition in Parkinson's disease; Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, dystonia; Investigational drugs in the treatment of Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders |
| Shaun P Vecera, Ph.D. |
Visual cognition |
“Iowa City is a nice place to live, especially when you're in grad school. It's similar to many other college towns in being very progressive and full of well-educated people.”