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Daniel Benjamin Aharoni, Ph.D.

Daniel Benjamin Aharoni, Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

 

Personal Statement

Our research lies at the intersection of engineering, neuroscience, and physics. In particular, we focus on applying tool development methodologies from engineering and physics to address current challenges in neuroscience and medicine. Working often times in close collaboration with other researchers, we concentrate on finding solutions to critical design problems (hardware, software, analysis, experimental) and develop those solutions from concept to implementation. In recent years, Dr. Aharoni led the development of the Miniscope system, an open-source microscopy platform for recording and analyzing neural activity in freely behaving animals. Our platform is currently being used in over 450 laboratories with an active and growing user base, making it one of the most successful open-source neuroscience tools to date.

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Lucina Uddin, Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

 

Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, 27-469
760 Westwood Plaza,
Los Angeles, CA 90024

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April Thames, Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

 

UCLA Semel Institute
760 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095

 

Biography

Dr. April Thames is Director of the Social Neuroscience and Health Psychology Laboratory, Professor of Psychiatry and Chief Psychologist of the Adult Psychology Division within the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. For the past 20 years, her research program has been devoted to understanding cultural and social influences on health and behavior. She was the first to demonstrate the effects of how societal stereotypes and discrimination influence performance on neuropsychological testing. More recently, her workin the impact of how racial discrimination relates to black-white differences in gene expression has garnered attention across several media outlets including NBC California Live, NPR news, and the Nation’s Health. She is the first to propose and illustrate the “dissociative interference” hypothesis of trauma as it relates to memory complaints among clinic patients who demonstrate normal performance on neuropsychological testing. Dr. Thames is passionate about promoting equitable healthcare and health care practices in partnership with community stakeholders.
Ausaf Bari

Ausaf Bari, MA, M.D., Ph.D., FAANS

Faculty Member

Professor in Residence
Department of Neurosurgery
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

 

Biography

Dr. Bari specializes in the neurosurgical repair and restoration of brain and nerve function. Following his neurosurgery residency training at UCLA, Dr. Bari was awarded the prestigious William P. Van Wagenen Fellowship to train at the world-renowned functional neurosurgery program at the University of Toronto. He has extensive clinical and research experience in the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the treatment of both movement and psychiatric disorders. Dr. Bari’s clinical practice includes DBS surgery for Parkinson’s disease, tremor, dystonia, depression and OCD. In addition, his clinical practice includes neurosurgery for brain tumors, pain, and peripheral nerve disorders.

Dr. Bari’s research focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to studying the neurobiology underlying movement and psychiatric disorders and expanding the frontiers of neurosurgery to treat those disorders. As a part of his fellowship training, Dr. Bari studied the relationship between the motor and reward systems of the brain and the use of deep brain stimulation to modify and enhance them. A native of California, Dr. Bari completed his neurosurgery residency training at UCLA after receiving his MD and PhD degrees from Boston University. He completed his undergraduate training at UC Berkeley in the field of neurobiology.

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