Potential Research Project Topics
To help choose a research mentor with like-minded interests, explore the broad range of neurological investigations our innovative physician-scientists are pursuing.
Topics for research projects, and faculty experts in these areas, include:
- Alzheimer’s disease and memory disorders (Kinga Szigeti; Ralph Benedict)
- ATP1A3 gene variation movement disorders (Allison Brashear)
- Autoimmune Diseases (Bianca Weinstock-Guttman)
- Autoimmune encephalitis (Svetlana Primma Eckert)
- Botulinum toxin (Allison Brashear)
- Cerebrovascular Disease (Robert Sawyer, Jr.; Marilou Ching; Linda Harris; Aaron Taylor)
- Cerebrovascular disease (Robert Sawyer, Jr.; Marilou Ching; Linda Harris; Aaron Taylor)
- Cholinergic anti-inflammatory system (Kinga Szigeti)
- Cognitive and behavioral neurosciences (David Shucard)
- Cognitive disturbances in Multiple Sclerosis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, and PTSD (David Shucard)
- Cognitive impairment (Thomas Covey)
- Cognitive processes (David Shucard; Thomas Covey)
- Cognitive training (Thomas Covey)
- Computational Imaging (Ferdinand Schweser)
- Concussion (Joy Parrish; M. Nadir Haider)
- Dystonia (Allison Brashear)
- EEG (David Shucard)
- Electroencephalography (EEG) (Ping Li; Osman Farooq)
- Electroencephalography (EEG) and Event-Related Potential (ERP) methods (Thomas Covey)
- Electromyography (Nicholas Silvestri)
- Electromyography (EMG) (Gil Wolfe; Osman Farooq)
- Electrophysiological, behavioral, neuropsychological, immunological, biochemical, and neuroimaging (David Shucard)
- Epilepsy (Ping Li; Joy Parrish; Jonathan Lopez; Arie Weinstock; Osman Farooq; Sarah Finnegan; Robert Glover; Michelle Hartley-McAndrew; Modhi Alkhaldi; Alexus Ludwig)
- Headache Medicine (Melissa Rayhill; Ashley Alex)
- Hereditary neuropathy (Thomas Langan)
- Inverse Problems (Ferdinand Schweser)
- Leukodystrophy (Thomas Langan; Lawrence Wrabetz)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (Ferdinand Schweser)
- Metabolic disorders of childhood (khalid kakish)
- Movement disorders (David Lichter; Thomas Guttuso, Jr.)
- Multiple sclerosis (David Hojnacki; Channa Kolb; Joy Parrish; Bianca Weinstock-Guttman; Ralph Benedict)
- Multiple Sclerosis and other neurologic autoimmune diseases (Svetlana Primma Eckert)
- Nervous system of both animals and humans (David Shucard)
- Neuro-ophthalmology (Norah Lincoff)
- Neuroimaging (David Hojnacki; Ferdinand Schweser; Robert Zivadinov; Michael Dwyer, III)
- Neurologic complications of H1N1 in pediatric patients (Osman Farooq)
- Neurology (Amit Kandel)
- Neuromuscular disease (Nicholas Silvestri; Gil Wolfe; Edward Fine)
- Neuromuscular outcome measures (Gil Wolfe)
- Neuromyelitis optica (Devic's Disease) (David Hojnacki)
- Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (Bianca Weinstock-Guttman)
- Neuropsychological Testing (Ralph Benedict)
- Neuropsychology (Joy Parrish; David Shucard)
- Pediatric Concussion (Osman Farooq)
- Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis and Demyelinating Disorders (Osman Farooq)
- Pediatric neurology (Joy Parrish)
- Polysomnography (Sleep Medicine) (David Shucard)
- Rapid-onset Dystonia-Parkinsonism (RDP) (Allison Brashear)
- Spasticity after stroke (Allison Brashear)
- Stroke (Robert Sawyer, Jr.; Marilou Ching; Osman Farooq)
- Vascular Neurology (Amit Kandel)
