Research

Faculty working on research projects on aging and disease range from cellular to animal models looking at processes that give rise to diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Baranova, Cebral, Dumas, Fryxell, Guerriero, Jafri, Kabbani, Lewis, Peixoto, Sikdar

How individuals engage in specific behaviors is driven by many factors including motivation, contextual effects, and habits.

Dannenberg, Dumas, Fryxell, Guerriero, Krueger, McDonald, Thompson, Sikdar

How the brain acquires knowledge through thought, experience, and senses, and how the mind emerges from the biology of the brain. Research projects combine experimental paradigms with brain imaging techniques to understand how the human brain creates an understanding of the world.

Ascoli, Dannenberg, Krueger, McDonald, Peterson

Learning and memory are fundamental mental processes. Researchers at Mason study this process by using diverse strategies from brain slices to animal models.

Ascoli, Dumas, Guerriero, McDonald

Neuroinformatics is the field that combines informatics and neuroscience. Neuroinformatics is related with neuroscience data and information processing by artificial neural networks.

Ascoli, Barreto, Cebral, Dumas, Jafri, Krueger, Peixoto, Ullah

How the brain acquires knowledge through thought, experience, and senses, and how the mind emerges from the biology of the brain. Research projects combine experimental paradigms with brain imaging techniques to understand how the human brain creates an understanding of the world.

Kabbani, Krueger, McCabe, Olds