View Full Profile Meaghan Altman
Instructor of Integrative Neuroscience
Psychology
Jared Bagley
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Christopher R. Bishop
Professor/Director of Undergraduate Integrative Neuroscience Program
Psychology
Research Interests
- Parkinson's Disease
- Neuroplasticity
- Drug Development

Tracy Brooks
Chair and Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Oncology
- Anti-cancer therapeutics
- Drug target development

Research Interests
- Effects of early life stressors
- Neuroendocrinology
- Mammalian physiology
- Evolution and behavior

Research Interests
- Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia
- Neurovascular function in the hippocampus
- Chronic hypertension and cerebral ischemic stroke
- Healthy aging and age-related dementias

Anne B. Clark
Associate Professor Emeritus
Biological Sciences
Research Interests
- Evolution
- Ecology of behavior

Research Interests
- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
- Functional and structural brain development
- Face processing
- Attention
- Typical and atypical developmental trajectories

Tony Davis
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Natural products biosynthesis
- Infectious diseases
- Neurological disorders
- Drug discovery and development
- Chemical biology
- Synthetic and medicinal chemistry

Terrence Deak
Vice Provost and Dean of The Graduate School; Professor
Academic Affairs, Office of the Executive VP and Provost; Graduate School; Psychology
Research Interests
- Stress responsive systems
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neural-immune interactions
- Alcohol
- Developmental neurobiology and brain aging

Marvin Diaz
Associate Professor and Behavioral Neuroscience Area Head
Psychology
Research Interests
- Neurodevelopment
- Prenatal drug exposure
- Substance use disorder
- Neural circuits
- Sex as a biological variable

Research Interests
- Neural code for taste in the brainstem of lean and obese rats
- temporal coding of sensation

Research Interests
- Cognitive neuroscience of memory and aging
- PFC and hippocampal interactions
- Impact of aging and/or brain injury on relational memory
- Role of eye movements in memory and its usage

Research Interests
- Visual perception and memory and the development of abilities in these areas

Research Interests
- The development and expression of information-processing biases that increase the risk for depression in infants, children, adolescents and adults
- Understanding the risk for depression and related outcomes (e.g., suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injury) across multiple units of analysis

Research Interests
- Judgment and decision-making
- Context effects
- Computational modeling
- Eye tracking
- Hierarchical Bayesian models

Kathleen L. Horwath
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Research Interests
- Comparative and environmental biochemistry
- Molecular cell biology
- Development and physiology of insects

J. David Jentsch
Distinguished Professor and Chair
Psychology
Research Interests
- Behavior genetics
- Drug addiction and alcoholism
- Impulsivity
- Incentive motivation
- Reinforcement and reward

Research Interests
- Adolescent stress and drug exposure
- Drug abuse vulnerability
- Kappa opioid receptors
- Dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin
- Alcohol use disorder
- Cocaine addiction
- Opiate abuse

Deborah Kreiss
Neuroscience, Research Assistant Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program
Research Interests
- Biological basis of pathology and treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Evaluation of animal models of anxiety and depressive disorders
- Physiological mechanisms mediating the therapeutic effects of psychoactive agents

Research Interests
- Schizophrenia and schizotypy
- Severe personality disorders
- Personality neuroscience
- Quantitative/statistical methods
- Longitudinal research methodology
- Operational psychology and selection
- Insider risk detection

Research Interests
- Auditory cognitive neuroscience
- Human speech perception and communication
- Auditory attention, working memory, and category learning
- Neural dynamics and functional networks through fMRI and EEG

Vipul Lugade, PhD
Associate Professor and Director of the MARL
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Research Interests
- Gait balance control in older adults at risk of falling
- Development of remote activity monitoring tools
- Return-to-play decision making in adolescents with mild traumatic brain injury
- Dual-task motor and cognitive evaluations
- Personalized single- and dual-task intervention in adolescents with concussion and older adults with balance impairment
- Longitudinal change in health outcomes following joint arthroplasty
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Nadine Mastroleo
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Psychology
Research Interests
- behavioral interventions
- brief motivational interventions
- substance abuse
- college student drinking

Research Interests
- Episodic Memory
- Aging
- Structural and Functional Neuroimaging
- Biomarkers of Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
- Health Disparities
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Carol I. Miles
Associate Professor/ Undergraduate Program Director
Biological Sciences
Research Interests
- Neurobiology
- Development and behavior of insects

Research Interests
- Elementary information processing (animals/humans)
- Memory and forgetting
- Role of temporal relationships between events in elementary learning
- Pavlovian conditioning

Melissa Morales
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
• Neuromuscular diseases
• Inflammatory and autoimmune diseases
• Preclinical drug testing
• Non-immune contributors to disease

Research Interests
- Systems physiology of obesity
- Lipid and sugar metabolism
- Interactions between the diet and genotype

Kanneboyina Nagaraju
Dean and SUNY Distinguished Professor
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Immunology
- Neuromuscular diseases
- Autoimmune diseases
- Drug development

Research Interests
- Soft material-based bioelectronics
- Non-invasive neuromodulation
- Gene delivery for the nervous system
- Neurotechnologies

Research Interests
- Disorders of Memory
- Neurodegeneration
- Neuroplasticity and Neurotrophins
- Neurobiology of Reward

Research Interests
- Genomics
- Evolution
- Transposons
- Polyploids

Research Interests
- Semantic plasticity
- Category learning and concept use
- Structure learning and representation
- Semantic generalization
- Neural mechanisms underlying flexible
semantic cognition in humans - Neuroimaging (fMRI)
- Computational modeling

Steven P. Tammariello
Associate Chair; Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Research Interests
- Equine performance genomics

Cyma K. Van Petten
Professor
Psychology; The Linguistics Program
Research Interests
- Language processing focusing on sentence comprehension and the interface between semantic processing and spoken word identification
- Memory with an emphasis on executive processes that contribute to memory and the role of prefrontal cortex

Research Interests
- Alcohol
- Social Interactions
- Stress
- Anxiety

Research Interests
- Alcohol use disorder
- Stress
- Cognitive function
- Synaptic transmission
- Neuroimmune signaling
- Sex differences

Research Interests
- Alcohol and anesthetic action
- addiction
- neuroplasticity
- neuropharmacology
- molecular genetics

Research Interests
- Health psychology and behavioral medicine
- Biopsychosocial model of health and illness
- Substance use (e.g., nicotine/tobacco; alcohol) and addictions
- Pain (e.g., clinical assessment; laboratory human experimental models)
- Mechanisms and effects of co-occurring substance use and medical conditions (e.g., chronic pain)
- Psychopathology and transdiagnostic constructs
- Translational research and intervention development