Neuroscience at Boston College
For information on faculty research topics in neuroscience, please visit the following sites:
Daniel A. Kirschner, Ph.D.: Structural analysis of amyloids and myelin sheaths.
Thomas N. Seyfried, Ph.D.: Gene-environmental interactions in epilepsy and brain cancers.
Kenneth C. Williams, Ph.D.: Central nervous system macrophages, neuroAIDS, AIDS pathogenesis, monocyte/macrophage biology.
Joseph R. Burdo, Ph.D.: Hereditary hemochromatosis as a modifier of heavy metal toxicity in the brain, development of a cell culture model of human stroke and identification of neuroprotective compounds using that culture model.
Cognitive, affective and behavioral neuroscience in the Psychology Department.