Functional complexity of a neural circuit depends on features of its component neurons such as spiking characteristics, total number, synaptic structures, and connectivity. In addition to varying across the many nodes of a neural circuit, these...
Lauryn Zipse, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. She is also Co-Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Group, a collaborative research...
I am a neurosurgeon-neuroscientist interested in the role of the basal ganglia and thalamus in voice and speech production. My clinical expertise includes deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, and essential tremor, all of which...
A. Eliot Shearer MD PhD is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School and an Attending Pediatric Otolaryngologist (Ear, Nose & Throat Surgeon) at Boston Children’s Hospital. His lab studies the genetics of...
Dr. Faisal Karmali is the Co-Director of the Jenks Vestibular Physiology Laboratory at Mass. Eye and Ear. His primary research seeks to understand how the brain determines spatial orientation when using senses such as the vestibular system and vision...
My lab works on regeneration and the complex molecular signaling in cell fate determination.
We are interested in sensory biology and the rebuilding of damaged sensory circuits. The hair cells of the cochlea are epithelial cells, specialized for the...