36 People Results for the Tag: Young Adult
Reginald Adams
Associate Professor of Psychology
How we extract social and emotional meaning from nonverbal cues
Jessica Conway
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Biology
Viral infection dynamics and interplay with therapies for elimination or control
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
John Hayes
Associate Professor of Food Science
Psychophysics of taste and flavor perception; role of genetic variation on food preferences
Robert Sainburg
Director of the Center for Movement Science and Technology; Huck Distinguished Chair in Kinesiology and Neurology; Professor of Kinesiology and of Neurology
The neural mechanisms that underlie control, coordination, and learning of voluntary movements in humans. Functional neuroanatomy of lateralized processes of motor control. Neurorehabilitation and Functional Recovery in stroke patients.
David Vandenbergh
Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Genetics of addiction in human populations and its neurobiological basis in animal models.
Daniel Weiss
Associate Professor of Psychology
The cognitive mechanisms underlying language acquisition
Erina MacGeorge
Professor of Communication Arts and Science
Antibiotic stewardship, doctor-patient communication
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Connie Rogers
Associate Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences
Role of changes in energy balance and related nutritional factors on inflammation, immune regulation, and cancer risk using both animal models and human subjects.
Mary Jane De Souza
Professor of Kinesiology
Women's health and Physical Activity, Endocrinology of the Female Athlete, Effects of Exercise on the Menstrual Cycle, Female Athlete Triad (Eating disorders, amenorrhea and osteoporosis), Eating Behaviors, Food Intake, and Exercise, Luteal Phase Defects and Amenorrhea, Bone Health and Osteoporosis in Female Athletes, and Energy Deficiency and Bone Health.
Nancy Dennis
Associate Professor of Psychology
The cognitive and neural mechanisms that support learning and memory in young and older adults.
Nancy Williams
Professor and Head of Kinesiology
Exercise physiology, effects of alterations in energy balance on reproductive function, neuroendocrinology, metabolism, clinical issues pertaining to womens health and reproductive status.
Nicole Etter
Assistant Professor of Health and Human Development
The relationship between tactile sensation and skilled oral behaviors (e.g. speech and swallowing) in healthy young, aging, and clinical populations.
Stephen Wilson
Associate Professor of Psychology
Addictive behavior, with a specific focus on cigarette smoking.
W. Larry Kenney
Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology
Environmental and exercise physiology, particularly human thermoregulation, skin blood flow, and the biophysics of heat exchange.
Kathryn Suzanne Scherf
Associate Professor of Psychology
Development of face and object representation in typically developing children and children with developmental disorders.
Idan Shalev
Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Interdisciplinary approach to identify mechanisms underpinning the biological embedding of stress across the lifespan with a special focus on biological aging.
Lacy Alexander
Professor of Kinesiology
Dr. Alexander utilizes in vivo and in vitro approaches using the human cutaneous circulation to examine the underlying signaling mechanisms mediating microvascular dysfunction with primary human aging, hypercholesterolemia, and essential hypertension.
Susan McHale
Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Professor of Demography
Roger Beaty
Assistant Professor of Psychology
The cognitive neuroscience of creative thinking and problem solving.
Douglas Wrenn
Assistant Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics