The human brain is a highly organized structure containing myriad axon tracts that follow precise pathways and make predictable connections, yet only a handful of human disorders clearly resulting from errors in axon growth and guidance have been...
As we age, our brains lose neurons, which cannot be replenished. When neuronal loss reaches above certain threshold, people develop devastating symptoms, such as dementia for Alzheimer's and movement disability for Parkinson's. There is no disease...
Vik Khurana M.D. Ph.D. is the inaugural incumbent of the Tracy T. Batchelor Endowed Chair in Neurology at MassGeneral Brigham, Chief of the Movement Disorders Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical...
Our interactions with the outside world trigger changes that are critical for proper brain development and higher cognitive function. The Greenberg laboratory has a long-standing interest in the ways in which experience-driven neural activity shapes the...
Restoring lost function after spinal cord injury or other types of CNS injuries is a major challenge of contemporary neuroscience. A key culprit of functional deficits is the disruption and/or dysfunction of axonal connections connecting different parts...
Our lab studies the development, function, and dysfunction of somatosensory and viscerosensory circuits that mediate our sense of touch and sensations from the gastrointestinal (GI) system, respectively. We are interested in how sensory experience...
Our group investigates the multifaceted influence of light on mammals. How does the retina produce visual information? How is this information processed within the brain for functions that are as diverse as perception and the regulation of circadian...