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Research

PHD PROGRAMS

As a student in our Neuroscience PhD Program, you will work with world-renowned faculty on transformational science that that impacts human brain health and disease. Our research approach is rooted in integration across different levels of analysis and model systems, from molecular and cellular, to circuits, networks and systems, to normal and pathophysiological behaviors. You will be part of a team that drives discoveries from the lab to the bedside in an interconnected system with seamless access to research and clinical settings.

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Research Areas

Our acclaimed faculty lead a diverse range of research practices, focusing on some of the most prevalent challenges in brain and nervous system health.

State-of-the-art basic and translational studies at Icahn Mount Sinai are providing novel neuropathophysiological insights in addiction.

Study the molecular, cellular, and functional changes that occur in the brain during aging.

Understand the pathology and structural mechanisms underlying alcohol use disorder.

Integrate basic, clinical, and translational research to better understand the molecular pathology of Alzheimer's disease.

Participate in inter-related autism research programs in genetics, experimental therapeutics, and cognitive neuroscience.

 

Study the neurological basis of behavior, thought, and emotion.

Accelerate the use of cutting-edge imaging tools to further research into the workings of the brain.

Study molecular mechanisms that can regenerate axons and reestablish lost connections in order to restore function.

Study the molecular and cellular components that drive brain tumors and develop strategies to deliver anti-cancer agents.

Understanding how the brain learns and remembers, focuses attention on specific sensory stimuli, and excludes others.

Employ mathematical models and theoretical analysis to understand the brain and behaviors.

Make fundamental advances in the pathogenesis of depression, anxiety, stress, and trauma, and develop effective new treatments.

Study the mechanisms of epilepsy and evaluate medical treatments.

Study the external or environmental factors that turn genes 'on' and 'off' and affect how cells 'read' genes.

Characterize the epigenetic changes that affect gene expression in MS patients.

Learn how neural circuits form and modify to generate symptoms

Characterize key aspects of eating pathology and apply them to novel treatments for patients with eating, weight, and body image disorders.

Understand neural adaptations and how they affect brain and nervous system function.

Learn what causes and treats pain through mouse models, spasticity treatment, and spine health.

Investigate mutations in the LRRK2 and GBA genes, as well as identifying novel genes that confer disease risk.

Understand and treat schizophrenia through genetics and genomics and neural stem cell models.

Research stem cell use for regenerative brain health.

Study how brain synaptic function and circuits influence emotions.

Research neutral networks and how they function in vivo.

Featured Neuroscience Artwork

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This amazing image by Dr. Ignacio Saez depicts the location of invasive stereotactic electrodes implanted deep in the brain of several intractable Epilepsy patients at Mount Sinai West.

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