Exploring brain-body connection

Our goal is to understand the complex interactions between the brain and body that maintain health. This understanding allows insight into the underlying causes for devastating diseases that dramatically impact quality of life and survival.

We focus on the role of inflammation and the interplay of the nervous and immune systems as the mediator of disease.

Collaboration across fields

Work in one area of research often offers insight in different, but related areas. Our members hold doctorates in immunology, medicine, neuroscience, physiology, psychology, radiation biology, and materials science engineering and have extensive experience across multiple basic science and medical fields.

By working together across these scientific disciplines, our researchers as well as their fields gain the greatest benefit.

Areas of Research

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Cardiovascular Diseases

Discovering links between stress and vascular health.

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Lifespan, Aging and Disease

Exploring health and disease processes from before birth to old age.

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Neurological Complications of Cancer

Reducing cognitive deficits in cancer patients.

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Neurological Disorders

Seeking causes, detection, intervention and prevention.

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Pain

Seeking new understanding of chronic back pain.

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Pulmonary Diseases

Seeking new understanding and therapies for chronic lung diseases.

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Sleep

Exploring how sleep mediates disease and interacts with immune function.

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Space Neuroscience

Protecting astronauts' brains as they travel to Mars.

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Stress

Linking the mechanisms of sleep, stress and disease

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Substance use disorders

Finding hope on a molecular level.

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Urological Diseases

Searching for the links between urological diseases and sleep.

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Women's and Children's Health

Striving to improve health in women and children.