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Ìý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): How epigenetic mechanisms shape neuronal substrates, and how they relate to evolution

Ìý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Dopamine, basal ganglia, corticostriatal plasticity, neuroeconomics, feeding behavior, obesity, anorexia, addiction

Ìý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Behavioral pharmacology, hedonic food intake, conditioned flavor preferences, genetic variance, inbred mouse paradigms

Ìý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Cortical circuits, neural development, barrel cortex, physiology

Ìý(Hunter College): Chronic stress, anxiety, antidepressants, serotonin, adult hippocampal neurogenesis, fear learning, anorexia nervosa

Ìý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Cross-cultural neuropsychology and NeuroHIV

Kristina Denisova (ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Cognitive Psychology, Neuroimaging, Autism

Ìý(Brooklyn College): Behavioral Neuroscience of Associative Learning, corticostriatolimbic circuits in reward processing, extinction learning, interval timing

Ìý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Cognitive neuroscience, attention, cognitive control

Ìý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Cognitive neuroscience of aging and dementia

Ìý(Brooklyn College): Neuroethology; neurochemistry of acoustic communication; seasonal and hormone-driven sensory plasticity

Ìý(College ofÌýStatenÌýIsland/NYS IBR): Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, tauopathies, brain insulin signaling, O-GlcNAcylation

Veronica HintonÌý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Developmental Neuropsychology, Fragile X Syndrome

Ìý(City College of New York): Neuroimaging investigation of neurodegeneration,Ìýcognitive recovery,Ìýneurorehabilitation after traumatic brain injury

Ìý(CUNY School of Medicine at City College of New York): Reinforcement and habit learning, addiction, Basal Ganglia structure and function, neuronal co-transmission, Parkinson’s Disease, neurodevelopment, monosynaptic circuit tracing

Ìý(City College of New York): Neurotransmitter Clearance, Excitotoxicity, Neurodegeneration, Transcriptional Neuroprotection,ÌýC. elegans

Ìý(Advanced Science Research Center): Brain circuits controlling motivated behavior, particularly circuits modulated by the dopamine system, circuit-based approaches integrating behavior, anatomy, synaptic physiology and optogenetics.

Ìý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Fetal programming, epigenetics, neuroimaging, developmental psychopathology, human studies

Ìý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Neurogenesis, hippocampus, songbird, song system, learning, memory, behavior, lateralization

Ìý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Drug addiction, dopamine, motivation, heroin, opiates, cocaine, reward, learning, substance use

Justin StorbeckÌý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Emotion

Ìý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Brain plasticity, extracellular matrix, glia, chronic pain

Kerstin B. UngerÌý(ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ): Developmental cognitive neuroscience, working memory, naturalistic memory and perception

Note: Faculty mentors can also be chosen from other institutions (CUNY and non CUNY).