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.
Cognitive / Behavioral Faculty
- Nancy C. Andreasen M.D., Ph.D.
- Warren Darling Ph.D.
Control of posture and movement - Natalie Denburg , Ph.D.
Prefrontal Brain Structures, Aging, and Decision-Making - Robert Franciscus
My research program is focused on the origins of modern humans and the broader Middle and Later Pleistocene periods of genus Homo evolution that provide the framework for this dynamic - John Freeman Ph.D.
Neurobiology of learning and memory - Jean K. Gordon Ph.D.
Lexical Access in Normal and Disordered Systems - Thomas Grabowski M.D.
Physiologic correlates of normal and defective cognition - 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 - Inah Lee Ph.D.
Neural mechanisms of event memory and goal-directed behavior - Vince Magnotta Ph.D.
Structural and functional imaging to study brain disorders
- David Moser Ph.D.
Vascular disease and cognition in the elderly - 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 Robinson M.D.
Neuropsychiatry/neurobehavior - Daniel Tranel Ph.D.
Neuropsychological and neuroanatomical correlates of complex human behavior - Christopher 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 Vecera Ph.D.
Visual cognition
Brain imaging in the major psychoses