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Faculty Research Interests

  • affect, cognition and their interactions with biological rhythms, sleep/arousal system
  • circadian rhythms in mammals
  • drug addiction, relapse and the brain
  • learning and memory systems that influence adaptive/maladaptive behaviors and underlying neurobiology
  • maternal caregiving and its regulation by steroid hormones, neuropeptides, and neurotransmitters
  • social behavior and the roles of vasopressin and oxytocin

 

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Castillo-Ruiz Lab

Studying the effects of birth on the development of brain and behavior.

CASTILLO-RUIZ LAB

Johnson Lab

Studying the neurobiology of learning and memory.

JOHNSON LAB

Lonstein Lab

Studying how steroid hormones, neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and interactions with offspring affect the neural sites regulating mothers' caregiving and emotional behaviors.

LONSTEIN LAB

Veenema Lab

Understanding the roles of the neuropeptides vasopressin and oxytocin (as well as opioids and orexin) in regulating social behaviors.

VEENEMA LAB

Yan Lab

Examining the neural mechanisms through which light affects mood and cognition.

YAN LAB