Center for Neuroscience Research

Main Center Contacts

Joshua Corbin, PhD

Interim Director, Center for Neuroscience Research
[email protected] 202-476-6281
William Davis Gaillard, MD

Division Chief, Epilepsy, Neurophysiology, and Critical Care Neurology
[email protected] 202-476-2120
Nikkie Adesida

Senior Research Center Manager
[email protected] 202-476-2389

About the Center

The Center for Neuroscience Research comprises an expanding group of highly productive lab-based developmental neuroscientists and clinical investigators who have established strong research programs and collaborations in the area of neurodevelopmental disorders. While these investigators have distinct expertise and research programs, their research as a whole is focused on childhood neurological disorders, from early stages of when the nervous system is first established, to postnatal stages that include the formation of neuronal connections and the wrapping of neuronal processes by the myelin insulation. The unique and exciting setting of the Center has supported and promoted a large number of research projects that span basic, translational and clinical research in neurodevelopmental disorders.

Our Mission
To understand the development of the central nervous system and the cellular, molecular, synaptic and network mechanisms of brain dysfunction to prevent or treat neurological, developmental and behavioral disorders of childhood.

Specification of Select Hypothalamic Circuits and Innate Behaviors by the Embryonic Patterning Gene, DbxI.

Center for Neuroscience researchers Katie Sokolowski, Joshua Corbin, et al. describe a recently published Neuron cover article about their groundbreaking results linking genetic embryonic patterning to the specification of hypothalamic circuitry and manifestation of stress-induced behaviors.

Research Areas

Principal Investigators

Catherine Bollard, MBChB, MD

Senior Vice President and Chief Research Officer
Dr. Robert J. and Florence T. Bosworth Distinguished Professor of Cancer and Transplantation Biology Research

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