Research Areas - Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience

Faculty

Jyrki Ahveninen, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School

Amit Anand, MD

Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

John Assad, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Brian Bacskai, PhD

Professor in Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Justin Baker, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Courtney Beard, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology
Harvard Medical School

Elika Bergelson, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology
Harvard University

Sabina Berretta, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Vadim Y. Bolshakov, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Richard Born, MD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Randy Buckner, PhD

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Harvard University

Katherine Burdick, PhD

Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychiatry
Brigham and Women's Hospital

William Carlezon, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Sydney S. Cash, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Chinfei Chen, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Isaac Chiu, PhD

Professor
Department of Immunology
Harvard Medical School

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Joanna Christodoulou, PhD

Associate Professor
Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Institute of Health Professions
Massachusetts General Hospital

Bruce Cohen, MD, PhD

Director
Program for Neuropsychiatric Research
McLean Hospital

Michael Crickmore, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Charles A. Czeisler, PhD, MD, FRCP

Frank Baldino
Jr. Professor of Sleep Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Benjamin L. de Bivort, PhD

Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

Jan Drugowitsch, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Catherine Dulac, PhD

Samuel W. Morris University Professor
Harvard University

Susan Dymecki, MD, PhD

Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Carolyn Elya, PhD

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Florian Engert, PhD

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Elif Engin, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Michela Fagiolini, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Jordan Farrell, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Dong Feng Chen, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Brielle Ferguson, PhD

Assistant Professor of Genetics and Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Nadine Gaab, PhD

Associate Professor of Education
Graduate School of Education
Harvard University

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Albert M. Galaburda, MD

Emily Fisher Landau Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience (Emeritus)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Aleena Garner, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

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Samuel Gershman, PhD

Professor of Psychology
Harvard University

Robert Gonzalez, MD

Director
Mood Disorders Division
Outpatient Clinical Services
Department of Psychiatry
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Joshua Greene, PhD

Professor of Psychology
Harvard University

Jakob Hartmann, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Christopher Harvey, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Daniel Hochbaum, PhD

Member of the Faculty
Harvard Medical School

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Hopi Hoekstra, PhD

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Andreas Horn, MD, PhD

Associate Professor in Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Bradley Hyman, MD, PhD

John B. Penney
Jr. Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Joshua Kaplan, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Raymond J. Kelleher, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Dong Kong, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Boston Children's Hospital

Talia Konkle, PhD

Professor of Psychology
Harvard University

Petros Koumoutsakos, PhD

Herbert S. Winokur Jr.
Professor of Computing in Science and Engineering
Harvard University
Harvard University

Edward Kravitz, PhD

George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology (emeritus)
Harvard Medical School

Gabriel Kreiman, PhD

Professor of Ophthalmology
Boston Children's Hospital

Samuel Kunes, PhD

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz, PhD, JD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Center for Bioethics
Harvard Medical School

Wei-Chung Allen Lee, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Einat Liebenthal, D.Sc

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Zhicheng (Carl) Lin, PhD

Director
Laboratory of Psychiatric Neurogenomics
McLean Hospital

Marco Loggia, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology and Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School

Bradford Lowell, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Natalia Machado, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor in Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Bertha Madras, PhD

Psychobiologist
Substance Use Disorders Division
Division of Basic Neuroscience
McLean Hospital

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L. Mahadevan, PhD

Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics
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Pamela Mahon, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Joseph Majzoub, MD

Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Dara S. Manoach, PhD

Professor of Psychology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Venkatesh Murthy, PhD

Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Victor Navarro, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Charles A. Nelson, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School

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Andrew Nierenberg, MD

Director
Dauten Family Center for Bipolar Treatment Innovation
Massachusetts General Hospital

Dost Öngür, MD, PhD

Chief
Psychotic Disorders Division
McLean Hospital

Tracey Petryshen, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Elizabeth Phelps, PhD

Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience
Harvard University

Naomi Pierce, PhD

Hessel Professor of Biology
Harvard University

Kanaka Rajan, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Sharad Ramanathan, PhD

Llura and Gordon Gund Professor of Neurosciences
Harvard University

Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Dragana Rogulja, PhD

Associate Professor in Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Matthew D. Sacchet, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Amar Sahay, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Aravinthan Samuel, PhD

Professor of Physics
Harvard University

Clifford B. Saper, MD, PhD

James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Thomas E. Scammell, MD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Daniel Schacter, PhD

William R. Kenan
Jr. Professor of Psychology
Harvard University

Frank A.J.L. Scheer, PhD, MSc

Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Alexander Schier, PhD

Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Dennis Selkoe, MD

Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Francis X. Shen, JD, PhD

Faculty Member
Center for Bioethics
Harvard Medical School

Jie Shen, PhD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

David Silbersweig, MD

Chairman
Department of Psychiatry
Brigham and Women's Hospital

David A. Sinclair, PhD, AO

Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD

MGH Trustees Endowed Chair in Psychiatric Neuroscience; Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

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Leah Somerville, PhD

Professor of Psychology
Harvard University

Yuyu Song, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Kai-Christian Sonntag, MD, PhD

Director
Laboratory for Translational Research on Neurodegeneration
Program for Neuropsychiatric Research
McLean Hospital

Elizabeth Spelke, PhD

Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology
Harvard University

Judith Steen, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Robert Stickgold, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD

Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Naoshige Uchida, PhD

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Tomer Ullman, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology
Harvard University

Anju Vasudevan, PhD

Director
Angiogenesis and Brain Development Laboratory
McLean Hospital

Humsa Venkatesh, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Vitaly Napadow, PhD

Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School

James Walker, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD

Bullard Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Alik Widge, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psyciatry
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital

Sabine Wilhelm, PhD

Chief of Psychology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Ziv Williams, MD

Associate Professor in Neurosurgery
Harvard Medical School

Jeremy Wolfe, PhD

Professor of Radiology and Ophthalmology
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Cagri Yuksel, MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
McLean Hospital

Yun Zhang, PhD

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

Xiao Zhen Zhou, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Theodore Zwang, PhD

Assistant Investigator
Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Erin Hecht, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

Image Credits

Viral infection and resistance in the brain. Banner image courtesy of Tyler Krause (Lab of Connie Cepko, Harvard Medical School)