Harvard University Office of Technology Development Collaborative Research Opportunity Finder

1. James Rowlett, PhD

   Anxiety, addiction, cognition, and sleep: pharmacotherapy, GABA receptor

   Investigate the neuropharmacological basis of psychiatric disease and addiction, employing behavioral methodologies and translational approaches.  Primary areas of research include anxiety, ...

   

2. Alexander Schier, PhD

   Zebrafish as a drug profiling model for sleep disorders

   Chronic sleep disturbance is a problem for a significant number of Americans, but the mechanisms that control sleep and wakefulness are largely unknown. The Schier lab is using zebrafish to ...

   

3. Bruce Yankner, MD, PhD

   Molecular mechanisms of aging and aging-related neurodegenerative diseases

   Explore aging at the molecular level, employing a systems biology approach

   

Research Categories

Central Nervous System

Sub-categories

1. Neurobiology/Neurophysiology/Neuropharmacology

   1. Action potential»
   2. Behavior»
   3. Binocular function»
   4. Brain plasticity»
   5. Calcium channel»
   6. Calcium channel blocker»
   7. Calcium/Calmodulin-dependent Kinase II (CaMKII)»
   8. Cognition»
   9. Critical period»
   10. Decision»
   11. Dopaminergic neuron»
   12. Excitatory-inhibitory balance»
   13. Hypocretin (Hcrt)»
   14. Hypothalamus»
   15. Inhibitory synapses»
   16. Ionic current»
   17. Learning»
   18. Long-term depression (LTD)»
   19. Long-term memory»
   20. Long-term potentiation (LTP)»
   21. Lynx1-nAChR interaction»
   22. Mating behavior»
   23. Motor neuron»
   24. Neural circuits»
   25. Neural coding»
   26. Neural connections»
   27. Neural development»
   28. Neural network»
   29. Neural Progenitors»
   30. Neuromuscular junction»
   31. Neuronal recordings»
   32. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor»
   33. Odor»
   34. Odor map»
   35. Odor-guided perceptual decision task»
   36. Olfactory»
   37. Olfactory bulb»
   38. Olfactory signaling»
   39. Optogenetics»
   40. Optomotor response»
   41. Pacemaking»
   42. Pain-sensing neuron»
   43. Pheromone receptor»
   44. Photoreceptor»
   45. Plasticity»
   46. Postsynaptic signaling»
   47. Potassium channel»
   48. Reticular spinal formation»
   49. Retinotectal pathway»
   50. Reward»
   51. Reward-based decision making and learning»
   52. Reward-based learning and decision-making assays»
   53. Sensory neuron»
   54. Sensory processing»
   55. Serotonin/5-HT signaling»
   56. Serotonin/5-HT2C receptors»
   57. Sodium channel»
   58. Spikes»
   59. Subcellular dendritic topography»
   60. Synaptic competition»
   61. Temporal code»
   62. TRP channel»
   63. TRPV1 channel»
   64. Visual cortex»
   65. Visual stimuli»
   66. Voltage clamp technique»
   67. Vomeronasal organ»