Results for "behavioral neuroscience"

Projects

Psychotherapy Effects on Reward Processing in PTSD (PERPP)

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The purpose of this study is to identify how trauma-focused psychotherapy changes the function of brain circuitry in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and how this mediates improvements in the diminished ability…

Evolution of vocalization in singing mice

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The Phelps lab is broadly interested in animal social behavior, its neural, genetic and molecular mechanisms, and how those mechanisms evolve. Using “exotic” rodent models, we focus on the nature and consequences of…

Evolutionary variation in genes, brains and behaviors

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The Phelps lab is broadly interested in animal social behavior, its brain mechanisms, and how those mechanisms evolve. We do a variety of work ranging from mechanisms of gene regulation to the fitness consequences of…

Faculty

Josh Cisler

Affiliated Departments:
Dell Medical School, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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The overarching goal of our research is to understand the neurocircuitry that confers risk for psychopathology following traumatic event exposure. Existing neurocircuitry models of PTSD and trauma exposure mainly…

Juan M Dominguez

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology, Pharmacology and Toxicology
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Neural regulation of motivated behaviors, especially mating; sexual behavior as a prototypic model for understanding motivation and its associated disorders; neuroendocrinological factors of depression and addiction…

Andrew David Gaudet

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Psychology, Dell Medical School, Dell Medical School
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The Gaudet lab aims to reveal links between molecular, cellular, and behavioral changes elicited during neuropathology. We have several research interests: 1. Neuroinflammation. Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes…

F Gonzalez-Lima

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Psychology, College of Natural Sciences, Neurobiology, College of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dell Medical School
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Human brain research in neuroscience, psychobiology, neurocognitive enhancement, learning and memory, brain stimulation, photobiomodulation, cognitive aging, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, bipolar disorder, ADHD,…

Regina Mangieri

Affiliated Departments:
Pharmacology and Toxicology
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The Mangieri lab studies the neurobiology of alcohol addiction in laboratory mouse models. We combine behavioral testing, in vivo alcohol administration, and ex vivo brain slice electrophysiology to examine how…

Marie Helene Monfils

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology, Neuroscience
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Dr. Monfils is currently pursuing 2 research streams: (1) identifying the factors that promote or hinder the social transmission of information between conspecific, and (2) investigating different post-consolidation…

Kimberly Nixon

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Psychology, Integrative Biology, Molecular Biosciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience, College of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Neurology
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The Nixon Lab studies neuropathology associated with alcohol use disorder. We specifically focus on the role of adult neural stem cells (adult neurogenesis) in the damage caused by alcohol, but also are one of the…

Caitlin A Orsini

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Psychology, Neuroscience, Dell Medical School
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As an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at UT Austin, Caitlin Orsini's research continues to focus on uncovering how neural mechanisms, at both a cellular and a systems level, that normally govern…