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Neuroscience

Faculty Member	Summary of research interests
Anne Atwater	Biomechanical analysis of human movement.
E. Fiona Bailey	Respiration -- especially the role of the upper airway musculature in breathing. How muscle architecture affects function -- especially as relates to tongue function in breathing and swallowing. Respiratory-related sensations -- dyspnea. How mechanoreceptor and chemorecptor input modulates tongue muscle activity.
Ann Baldwin	Effects of environmental stress on animal physiology and behavior; Efficacy of energy healing in changing physiological measures; Use of Biofeedback with Parkinsons' patients, athletes and children
Heddwen Brooks	Systemic actions of vasopressin, gender differences in development of metabolic syndrome and diabetes. Role of vasopressin in regulating collecting duct function, aquaporin regulation, ER stress, microarray discovery, renal disorders, molecular signaling
Ralph Fregosi	neural control of respiratory muscles; control of breathing during sleep; influence of prenatal nicotine exposure on the respiratory control system
Andrew Fuglevand	Sensorimotor neurophysiology, motor control, neuroprosthetics
Katalin Gothard	The neural basis of emotion and social behavior
Raphael Gruener	2007: Promoting biotechnology issues in Arizona (laboratory closed down 2006)
Gail Koshland	Neural control of multi-joint movements
Ronald Lynch	Microscopic imaging and spectroscopy; metabolism and stimulus-response coupling in muscle and insulin-secreting cells.
Douglas Stuart	Properties of the segmental motor control system (motoneurons, motor units, muscle receptors, and their central actions)