Meet Our Faculty
Discover the research interests and publications of our faculty
Meet Our Faculty
Discover the research interests and publications of our faculty
Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research
Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research
Our Labs
Learn about our innovative, multi-level, and collaborative approach to research
Our Labs
Learn about our innovative, multi-level, and collaborative approach to research

Events

May
3
Department of Physiology Seminar Series - Francis S. Lee, Ph.D.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
May
10
Department of Physiology Seminar Series - Jesse Goldberg, Ph.D.
CANCELLED
May
15
Department of Physiology Roundtable - Talia Lerner, Ph.D.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
May
17
Department of Physiology Seminar Series - Moshe Szyf, Ph.D.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
May
20
Department of Physiology Seminar Series - Shari Wiseman, Ph.D.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
May
31
Department of Physiology Seminar Series - Mary Kay Lobo, Ph.D.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Jun
7
Department of Physiology Seminar Series - Yi Zuo, Ph.D.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Jun
14
Department of Physiology Seminar Series - Andrew Singleton, Ph.D.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Jun
19
Department of Physiology Roundtable - C. Savio Chan, Ph.D.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

News

04.15.2019Inter-Sensory Processing Uncovered
03.26.2019Scientists Map Circuit Connected to Memory Formation
03.01.2019Nanoparticle Peptides Could Fight Neurodegenerative Disease
02.25.2019New Group of Neurons Implicated in Parkinson’s Disease

Our Department

The Department of Physiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is devoted to outstanding research and committed to excellence in education. Our faculty participate in teaching medical and graduate students and are proud of their contribution to this important enterprise.

Current Publications

Deconstructing biomarkers for chronic pain: context- and hypothesis-dependent biomarker types in relation to chronic pain.
Reckziegel D, Vachon-Presseau E, Petre B, Schnitzer TJ, Baliki MN, Apkarian AV.
Pain. 2019 May;160 Suppl 1:S37-S48. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001529.
Neural Networks for Modeling Neural Spiking in S1 Cortex.
Lucas A, Tomlinson T, Rohani N, Chowdhury R, Solla SA, Katsaggelos AK, Miller LE.
Front Syst Neurosci. 2019 Mar 29;13:13. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2019.00013. eCollection 2019.
Nongenetic optical neuromodulation with silicon-based materials.
Jiang Y, Parameswaran R, Li X, Carvalho-de-Souza JL, Gao X, Meng L, Bezanilla F, Shepherd GMG, Tian B.
Nat Protoc. 2019 Apr 12. doi: 10.1038/s41596-019-0135-9. [Epub ahead of print]

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D James Surmeier, PhD
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