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Neuroscience

Biological disciplines focused on the human brain and body’s neural circuits.

Neuroscience Researchers

Amosy M'Koma, MD, MS, PhD

Associate Professor
School of Medicine

Aramandla Ramesh, PhD

Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence, National Center for Medical Education Development & Research

(615) 327-6486
aramesh@mmc.edu

Amos Sakwe, PhD, MSCI

Associate Professor
School of Graduate Studies and Research
Center for Women's Health Research

(615) 327-6064
asakwe@mmc.edu

Anil Shanker, PhD

Sr. Vice President for Research and Innovation & Professor, School of Medicine
Meharry Medical College
Center for Women's Health Research, Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence, Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience

(615) 327-6460
VP-Research@mmc.edu

Akiko Shimamoto, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Medicine
Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience

(615) 327-6291
ashimamoto@mmc.edu

Clivel Charlton, PhD

Director, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience & Professor
School of Medicine
Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience

(615) 327-6971
ccharlton@mmc.edu

Executive Director Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Physiology
School of Medicine
Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research, Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience

(615) 327-6996
cdash@mmc.edu

Deok-Soo Son, DVM, PhD

Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Center for Women's Health Research, Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence

(615) 327-6189
dson@mmc.edu

Shawn Goodwin, PhD

Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience

(615) 327-6686
jgoodwin@mmc.edu

LaMonica Stewart, PhD

Professor
School of Medicine

(615) 327-6749
lstewart@mmc.edu

Sanika Chirwa, PhD

Professor
School of Medicine
Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience

(615) 327-6934
schirwa@mmc.edu

Salil Das, ScD, DSc, Fellow: AAAS; Royal Society of Medicine (UK)

Professor
School of Medicine
Center for Women's Health Research, Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence, Sickle Cell Center, Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience

(615) 327-6988
sdas@mmc.edu

Subodh Nag, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Medicine

(615) 327-6926
snag@mmc.edu

Zhenbang Chen, PhD

Professor
School of Medicine
Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence

(615) 327-5775
zchen@mmc.edu

Neuroscience Publications

Open-label, randomized, parallel-group controlled clinical trial of massage for treatment of depression in HIV-infected subjects.
Russell E Poland, Lev Gertsik, Joya T Favreau, Shawnee I Smith, James M Mirocha, Uma Rao, Eric S Daar

Developmental risk I: depression and the developing brain.
John M Weir, Arthurine Zakama, Uma Rao

Cannabinoid receptor genes.
E S Onaivi, A Chakrabarti, G Chaudhuri

Chronic intrastriatal L-pyroglutamate: neuropathology and neuron sparing like Huntington's disease.
G K Rieke, J Smith, O B Idusuyi, J Semenya, R Howard, S Williams

Alcohol: the lubricant to suicidality.
Shahid Ali, Milankumar Nathani, Shahgufta Jabeen, Ijlal Yazdani, Charles D Mouton, Rahn K Bailey, Mona Mahr, Rebecca J Pate, Wayne J Riley