Animal Behavior Core
Consistent with the goal of UH to solidify its status as a Carnegie-Designated Tier-One Research Institution, the Animal Behavior Core (ABC) facility offers the UH research community access to equipment, training and services used to test behavior in rodents utilizing specialized state of the art equipment. The ABC also offers other services including consultation on experimental design, implementation and statistical analysis. |
Advanced Computing Research Laboratory Founded by Dr. Lennart Johnsson, the ACRL focuses on computational and data Grids, high-performance scientific computation, parallel algorithms, adaptive, Grid-aware, high-performance software and tools for creation thereof, middleware for Grids and parallel computers, especially communications related middleware, performance modelling, and problem solving environments. |
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The Computational Physiology Lab (CPL) was founded in 2002 by Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis and since then gained worldwide recognition. At this moment the lab has three research lines and an educational research effort on science ethics. Our focus is on unobtrusive and sustained monitoring of physiological variables. |
Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience LaboratoryThe overarching theme of Dr. Therese Kosten‘s Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience Lab is to understand the contributions of genetic and environmental factors that influence and shape behavior via the involvement of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and dopaminergic and noradrenergic systems. She states, “I study how behaviors reflective of addiction (e.g., self-administration, conditioned place preference, etc) are affected by stress, sex, and early life manipulations. Another aspect of my research can be considered translational as it involves medication development. For example, we are constructing and testing vaccines for methamphetamine abuse and are identifying new pharmacological targets for alcoholism that we test using maintenance and reinstatement of operant responding for alcohol procedures. Broadly, my research program encompasses the areas of motivation, emotion, and learning with a focus on limbic regions, such as the nucleus accumbens and hippocampus.” |
Developmental Neuropsychology LaboratoryThe Developmental Neuropsychology Lab is run by Paul T. Cirino, Ph.D. We have a primary interest in understanding the neuropsychological, developmental, and instructional aspects of neurodevelopmental disorders. Particular populations of interest include students with mathematical and reading disorders, and spina bifida. We have a specific interest in the overlap among the neuropsychological domains of working memory, attention, and executive function, and their relation to academic skill and difficulty. |
Developmental Psychopathology Laboratory In the Developmental Psychopathology Lab at University of Houston our research focus is on the early identification of psychiatric disorders. One line of research focuses on social-cognitive, affective, and reward processing as early markers of psychiatric disorder in children and adolescents. A second line of research focuses on the development of diagnostic measurement tools to facilitate the early identification and treatment of psychiatric disorder in children and adolescents. The lab is run by Dr. Carla Sharp. |
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