(22 intermediate revisions not shown)
Line 10: Line 10:
     <tr><td colspan=2><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/6/61/03_title.jpg"></td></tr>
     <tr><td colspan=2><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/6/61/03_title.jpg"></td></tr>
     <tr><td colspan=2 height=10>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td colspan=2 height=10>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td colspan=2><span style="text-transform:uppercase;color:#000000;font-size:18px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;color:#D9322B">molecule to cognition unit</span></td></tr>
+
     <tr><td><span style="text-transform:uppercase;color:#000000;font-size:18px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;color:#D9322B">Gene to Behavior unit</span></td></tr>
-
    <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td><td rowspan=20 width=35><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/c/c0/Blank.gif"></td></tr>
+
-
    <tr><td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;line-height:16px;text-align:justify">The long-term goal of this unit is to elucidate the molecular and synaptic bases of learning and memory and to establish how alterations in synaptic plasticity contribute to neurological and psychiatric disorders. This unit will study how genetic/molecular/synaptic/neuronal/localcircuit-level brain mechanisms enable cognitive faculties such as maze learning tasks and sensation by integrating neurometric techniques at different depths with psychometric techniques such as maze learning tasks and behavioral genetics. Bong-Kiun Kaang will lead this unit joined by Graham Collingridge, Min Zhuo, Sang Jeong Kim and Inah Lee.</</td></tr>
+
     <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td>
+
     <tr><td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;line-height:16px;text-align:justify"></td></tr>
 +
 
 +
    <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td height=50>
     <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0>
     <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0>
-
     <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Bong-Kiun Kaang, <font size="3px">Dept. of Biological Sciences, SNU</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.kaanglab.org/" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
+
     <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Seungbok Lee, <font size="3px">Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, SNU</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://dentsci.snu.ac.kr/develop" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/1/16/03_img01.jpg"></td>
+
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/9/9d/%EC%9D%B4%EC%8A%B9%EB%B3%B5%EA%B5%90%EC%88%98%EB%8B%98.jpg"></td>
         <td width=20></td>
         <td width=20></td>
-
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">One of the key leading neurobiologists in Korea with expertise on the molecular mechanism of synaptic plasticity and memory from multiple model systems such as Aplysia and mouse.<br />
+
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">The major goal of Dr Lee’s research is to understand the mechanisms by which the structure and function of neural circuits are controlled in development and disease.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His recent work on the molecular, cellular mechanism of synaptic plasticity and fear memory is providing a new view, unveiling novel, original molecular mechanisms of memory.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His laboratory uses Drosophila as a genetic model system to address 1) how developing axons migrate towards their  targets, 2) how synapses are formed and modified during development and by experience, and 3) how synapses are affected in neurological diseases.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High impact publications in Cell, Science, Neuron, PNAS.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High-impact publications in journals such as Neuron, the Journal of Cell Biology, the Journal of Neuroscience, and Development. <br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Papers on the functional implication of cAMP-PKA-CREB signaling pathway in Aplysia neurons, in collaboration with Dr.Eric Kandel (year 2000 Nobel Laureate, also his lifelong collaborator), had a great impact on molecular neurobiology field (Neuron, 1993; Science, 1993).<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Recent studies of the fly homologs of genes that cause hereditary spastic paraplegia in humans have shed new light on the pathologic mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases.</td></tr>
-
 
+
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Director of National Creative Research Initiative Center for memory; Editor-in-chief of on-line neuroscience journal, Molecular Brain.</td></tr>
+
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Graham Leon Collingridge FRS, <font size="3px">MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, U of Bristol</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bris.ac.uk/synaptic/research/pi/GLC_res.html" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
+
     <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Kyungjin Kim, <font size="3px">Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, SNU</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://neuroendo.new21.net/" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/03/03_img02.jpg"></td>
+
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/03/%EA%B9%80%EA%B2%BD%EC%A7%84%EA%B5%90%EC%88%98%EB%8B%98.jpg"></td>
         <td width=20></td>
         <td width=20></td>
-
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">Investigating the synaptic basis of learning and memory with an emphasis on the role of glutamate receptors in hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD).<br />
+
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">Dr. Kim’s research topics include 1) mammalian biological clock mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms, 2) the synaptic plasticity of maternal stress in the hippocampus and amygdala, and 3) neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying  the hypothalamic GnRH pulse generator.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">He established the principle that NMDA receptors trigger plasticity and AMPA receptors mediate a modifiable synaptic response, and this principle has now been extended to many other synapses in the brain and is regarded as one of the most influential discoveries in the field of synaptic function.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Recently disclosed the circadian nature of glucocorticoid, one of the important circadian oscillators, and the genomic drive of the pulsatile GnRH oscillator in the hypothalamus.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Discovered that NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic transmission is plastic; synaptic plasticity is expressed by changes in AMPA receptor function; both inhibitory and facilitatory autoreceptor mechanisms contribute to the acute and long-term regulation of synaptic transmission.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High-impact publications including PNAS, EMBO Rpt, MCB, J. Neuroscience, Mol Endocrinology, and Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. He has published more than 210 peer-reviewed original articles, reviews and invited chapters in books.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High impact publications including Collingridge et al(1983, J of Physiology, over 1,500 citations) and Bliss & Collingridge (1993, Nature, over 5,000 citations).<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Served on numerous society, business, and editorial board and committee review panels in government and private sectors. He was editor-in-chief of Mol Cells and an associate editor for Mol Reproduction & Development. He is currently an editorial board member for Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, Progress in Neurobiology, Neuroendocrinology.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Numerous prestigious awards including Elected Fellow, THe Royal Society (2001); Elected President, British Neuroscience Association (2007). The Santiago Grisolia Prize (2008).</td></tr>
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Received numerous accolades, including the MokAm Bioscience Award from the Korean Society of Molecular and Cellular Biology (1997) and an award from the Korea National Academy of Science (2010). He has been a member of the Korean  Academy of Science and Technology since 1999.
-
 
+
</td></tr>
-
 
+
<tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
    <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+
      
      
-
     <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Min Zhuo, <font size="3px">Dept. of Physiology, U of Toronto</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://individual.utoronto.ca/zhuo/" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
+
     <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Seog Bae Oh, <font size="3px">Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, SNU</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://dentsci.snu.ac.kr/pain" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/a/a4/03_img03.jpg"></td>
+
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/8/88/%EC%98%A4%EC%84%9D%EB%B0%B0%EA%B5%90%EC%88%98%EB%8B%98.jpg"></td>
         <td width=20></td>
         <td width=20></td>
-
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">His lifelong works on the molecular mechanism of chronic pain and the role of ACC in chronic pain is highly creative and exceptional.<br />
+
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">Studying the neurobiological basis of neuropathic pain at the molecular, cellular and cognitive levels. Dr. Oh’s research aims to link specific gene targets to their effects on perceptual and emotional outcomes in the context of nerve injury-induced pain.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His original findings about the role of CNS on the generation of chronic pain sensation shed light on the field of chronic pain research.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Recently uncovered a hitherto unknown role of the TRPV1 receptor in mediating spinal disinhibition and mechanical pain behaviour after peripheral nerve  injury and elucidated a mechanism supporting the effectiveness of centrally  administered TRPV1 antagonist drugs in neuropathic pain.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Expert on brain pharmacology and molecular mechanism of chronic pain (consulting experience with Big Pharmas such as Pfizer).<br />
 
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Having high-profile publication records (4 Nature, 3 Nature Neuroscience, 5 Neuronn, 1 Science, and total SCI 157 papers within 20 years of research).<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High-impact publications including Neuron, the Journal of Neuroscience, Pain and the Journal of Biochemistry as well as reviews and invited chapters in pain-related publications.</td></tr>
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His research goal is to unravel the molecular mechanism of chronic pain and emotion-related brain disorders.<br />
 
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Founding editor and Editor-in-chief of online neuroscience journal Molecular Pain (Impact factor 4.13, top 20% among Neuroscience journals) and Molecular Brain.<br /></td></tr>
 
-
    <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 
-
    <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Sang Jeong Kim, <font size="3px">Dept. of Physiology, SNU College of Medicine</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://brain.snu.ac.kr/main.php" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
 
-
    <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 
-
    <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/39/03_img04.jpg"></td>
 
-
        <td width=20></td>
 
-
        <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">Research focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of information storage and its related brain diseases by combining cutting-edge techniques such as patch clamping, Ca imaging, confocal mocroscopy, UVphotolysis and field/single unit recording from isolated neurons, brain slices and in-vivo animals.<br />
 
-
 
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High impact publications in major journals such as Nature, Neuron, and Journal of Neuroscience, etc, making over 300 score of the total impact factor during last five years.<br />
 
-
 
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Published a comprehensive review article in Neuron suggesting that ubiquitous synaptic plasticity is necessary to account for the rich phenomenon of memory storage in the neural network.<br />
 
-
 
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Editorial board of the Journal of Neurophysiology.</td></tr>
 
         </table>  
         </table>  
Line 86: Line 69:
     </td></tr>
     </td></tr>
     <tr><td height=50>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=50>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td><span style="text-transform:uppercase;color:#000000;font-size:18px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;color:#D9322B">System and behavior unit</span></td></tr>
+
     <tr><td><span style="text-transform:uppercase;color:#000000;font-size:18px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;color:#D9322B">Systems & Cognitive Neuroscience unit</span></td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;line-height:16px;text-align:justify">The long-term goal of this unit is to understand neuronal mechanisms involved in the encoding of sensory inputs, the representation and decoding of relevan information from population of active neurons, and the maintenance and retrieval of information within thos populations. This unit will study how neuronal/local circuit/global circuit-level brain mechanisms enable cognitive processes such as sensation, perception, memory, decision making and attention; the aim is to integrate neurometric techniques including single/multi-unit cell recordings, micro/macro-brain imaging and brain stimulation with psychometric techniques encompassing various forms of perceptual and memory tasks. Computational approaches will play a major role in bridging studies from individual researchers with expertise using different types of measurement. Sang-Hun Lee will lead this unit teamed up with Randolph Blake, Inah Lee and Marcus Kaiser.</td></tr>
+
     <tr><td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;line-height:16px;text-align:justify"> </td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
Line 99: Line 82:
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/d/d2/03_img06.jpg"></td>
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/d/d2/03_img06.jpg"></td>
         <td width=20></td>
         <td width=20></td>
-
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">An expert in visual neuroscience with specialty in parallel uses of fMRI, psychophysics and neural models linking psychophysical and cortical measurements.<br />
+
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">The major goal of Dr. Lee’s research is to
 +
understand the neuronal mechanisms involved in the encoding of sensory inputs and the representation and decoding of relevant information from populations of active neurons.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High impact publications in journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Neuroscience.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His laboratory combines fMRI, computational modeling  and psychophysics to address how sensory and non-sensory information flows in the human brain are combined to contribute to decisive resolutions of perceptual choices under an environment with high degrees of uncertainty.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His recent work on traveling waves in human visual cortex (Nature, 2001; Nat. Neurosci, 2005; 2007) has created great impacts in the fields of both visual neuroscience and neural basis of consciousness.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High-impact publications in journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, PNAS and the Journal of Neuroscience.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His work on the role of temporal structure in spatial grouping (Science, 1999) is highly original and has sparked keen interest in that topic.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Recent computational neuroimaging studies of cortical point spread functions, choice probability, motion adaptation and time perception in the human visual cortex have been published in top journals in the cognitive/systems  neuroscience field. </td></tr>
-
 
+
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Recipient of ASSC William James Award (2006) in recognition of his contribution to scientific studies of consciousness.<br />
+
-
 
+
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Unit leader and representative PI of DBCS.</td></tr>
+
<tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
<tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Inah Lee, <font size="3px">PhD, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, SNU</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.inahlee.org/" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
+
<tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Inah Lee, <font size="3px">Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, SNU</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.inahlee.org/" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/9/92/03_img05.jpg
+
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/e/e3/InahLee1.gif"></td>
-
"></td>
+
         <td width=20></td>
         <td width=20></td>
-
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">Inah Lee investigates how behavior is influenced by learning and memory systems in the brain.<br />
+
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">The goals of Dr. Lee’s research are to elucidate how the brain learns a new event and retrieves an event memory effectively to produce adaptive behavior. Event memory under investigation includes object recognition memory, visual contextual memory, and object-place memory.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">He is a world-recognized leading expert on hippocampal learning and memory.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His main techniques are to test rodents in memory tasks to uncover the functional relationships between brain areas and cognitive functions. Main techniques include perturbation techniques using drug injections and lesions. His lab also monitors the electrophysiological activities of a large  number of single units simultaneously and local field potentials in freely moving animals.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">He has published seminal experimental papers on how neural circuits in the hippocampus work for learning and remembering episodic events in top-tier journals such as Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Science, Neuron, and Journal of Neuroscience.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">He has published articles in high-impact journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, and The Journal of Neuroscience.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Chosen as one of 100 frequent reviewers of the Journal of Neuroscience.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Recent behavioral and neurophysiological studies for investigating neural networks (hippocampus, prefrontal cortex,  striatum, and perirhinal cortex) pertaining to contextual choice behavior appeared in top-tier journals
-
 
+
related to systems of neuroscience.</td></tr>
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Research funded by R01 grant from NIH and WCU program.</td></tr>
+
Line 138: Line 116:
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">Studying important aspects of perception by blending psychophysics, neural modeling and brain imaging.<br />
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">Studying important aspects of perception by blending psychophysics, neural modeling and brain imaging.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Acknowledged as world's expert on rivalry and perceptual bistability.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Acknowledged as a world expert on rivalry and perceptual bistability. Devised clever, revealing "psychoanatomical" strategies for identifying the neural sites of action within human vision. <br />
-
 
+
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Devised clever, revealing "psychoanatomical" strategies for identifying neural sites of action within human vision.<br />
+
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Blake's work on the role of temporal structure in spatial grouping is highly original and has sparked keen interest in that topic.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Dr. Blake's work on the role of the temporal structure in spatial grouping is highly original and has sparked keen interest in that topic.<br />
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His 1989 Psychological Review paper on rivalry, the most widely cited theoretical paper on that topic, stimulated an explosion of interest in the phenomena within cognitive neuroscience and neurophysiology.<br />
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His 1989 Psychological Review paper on rivalry, the most widely cited theoretical paper on that topic, stimulated an explosion of interest in the phenomena within cognitive neuroscience and neurophysiology.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High impact publications in Nature (13), Science (9),; H research impact factor is 56.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High-impact publications in Nature (13) and Science (9). His research impact factor is 61. <br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Coauthor of a widely used textbook on perception (Blake & Sekular, 2005, Perception, McGraw-Hill) now in it's fifth edition.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Coauthor of a widely used textbook on perception (Blake & Sekular, 2005, Perception, McGraw-Hill) now in its fifth edition.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Numerous prestigious awards including Elected Fellow, Americal Academy of Arts and Science 2006; Earl Sutherland Award, 2000; APA, Early Career Award, 1977; Thomas Jefferson Award, 2008; IgNobel Prize, 2006.</td></tr>
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Numerous prestigious awards, including Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Science 2006; Earl Sutherland Award, 2000; APA, Early Career Award, 1977; Thomas Jefferson Award, 2008; IgNobel Prize, 2006; National Academy of  Sciences, 2012.</td></tr>
 +
   
 +
        </table>
 +
 +
    </td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td height=50>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td><span style="text-transform:uppercase;color:#000000;font-size:18px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;color:#D9322B">Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience unit</span></td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;line-height:16px;text-align:justify"></td></tr>
 +
 +
    <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td height=50>
 +
 +
    <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0>
 +
<tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Jun Soo Kwon, <font size="3px">MD, PhD, Dept. of Psychiatry, SNU</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://neuroimage.net/" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/8/84/%EA%B6%8C%EC%A4%80%EC%88%98%EA%B5%90%EC%88%98%EB%8B%98.jpg"></td>
 +
        <td width=20></td>
 +
        <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">An expert in pathophysiology in the neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. <br />
-
   
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Extensive publications in journals such as JAMA Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry with a total impact factor score exceeding 180 over the last three years.<br />
-
     <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Marcus Kaiser, <font size="3px">PhD, Complex Neural Systems, Newcastle University</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biological-networks.org/" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Served as a counselor for Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP), a first for Korea (2008~2012).<br />
 +
 
 +
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Unit leader.</td></tr>
 +
 
 +
    <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 +
 
 +
     <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Chun Kee Chung, <font size="3px">MD, PhD, Dept. of Neurosurgery, SNU </font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.snuns.or.kr/" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/6/6a/03_img08.jpg"></td>
+
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/b/be/%EC%A0%95%EC%B2%9C%EA%B8%B0%EA%B5%90%EC%88%98%EB%8B%98.jpg"></td>
         <td width=20></td>
         <td width=20></td>
-
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">His research interest is modeling network architecture and simulating neural activity as well as data analysis of
+
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">An expert in brain function and anatomy, Dr. Chung is the Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Seoul National University College of Medicine.<br />
-
experimentally observed brain connectivity and neural dynamics.<br />
+
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High impact publications in journals such as Neuron, PLoS CB, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Physical Review within 4 years.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">He installed an MEG system in Korea for the first time. He has annually hosted a workshop about neural data analysis with invitations to internationally renowned researchers.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">The first to show that local spatial and topological features of cortical and neuronal networks can be used to reconstruct the global network topology.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His research interests cover motor-sensory networks, pain, epilepsy, motor planning, movement intention decoding, the auditory system, and language with numerous papers published.</td></tr>
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">The first to publish that cortical networks can show sustained activity that neither dies out nor spreads through the whole network even in the absence of inhibitory nodes.</td></tr>
+
    <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Ki Woong Kim, <font size="3px">MD, PhD, Dept. of Psychiatry, SNU</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nid.or.kr/default.asp" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/4/4a/%EA%B9%80%EA%B8%B0%EC%9B%85%EA%B5%90%EC%88%98%EB%8B%98.jpg"></td>
 +
        <td width=20></td>
 +
        <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">Dr. Kim is an expert in geropsychiatry and serving as the director of the National Institute of Dementia and the president of the Korean Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology (KCGP). <br />
 +
 +
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His research areas are early diagnosis and intervention in cognitive disorders(dementia and mild cognitive impairment) and late-life depression.<br />
 +
 +
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">He is leading two community-based elderly cohort projects in Korea (the Korean Longitudinal Study on Health and Aging and the Korean Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging and Dementia).<br />
 +
 +
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Published more than 160 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including Biological Psychiatry and Neurology and Stroke, and wrote 11 books on dementia and geriatric psychiatry.</td></tr>
-
    </table>
 
-
    </td></tr>
 
     <tr><td height=50>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=50>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td><span style="text-transform:uppercase;color:#000000;font-size:18px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;color:#D9322B">clinical and computational unit</span></td></tr>
+
     </table>  
-
    <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+
-
    <tr><td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;line-height:16px;text-align:justify">The long-term goal of this unit is to understand psychiatric disorders, with and eye toward identifying means for correcting thos disorders or minimizing their consequences. Furthermore, work carried out in this unit will promote development of computational and mathematical tools for handling neuroimaging data analyses which, in turn, will contribute to integrative evaluation of functional, structural and biochemical aspects of brain, both disordered and healthy. This unit, led by Jun Soo Kwon, consists of two subunits.<BR />
+
-
The 'Clinical Neuroscience' subunit, comprising Jun Soo Kwon and Sohee Park, will focus on studies of the pathophysiology of mental/brain disorders. including schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, they will deploy an integrative set of neurometric (large-scale brain imaging techniques on human brains) and psychometric (various forms of high cognitive tasks) measurement tools. The 'Computational Anatomy' subunit, led by the collaboration between Jae Sung Lee and Moo K. Chung, will integrate neurometric data obtained from functional (fMRI, PET) and structural (STI, MRI) images - major large-scale neurometric data from humans in modern cognitive neuroscience - into a single, coherent processing and analysis framework. The successful development of such tools will substantially help the other units to advance understanding of cortical and subcortical circuitries crucial for the target cognitive functions.</td></tr>
+
 +
<tr><td colspan=2><span style="text-transform:uppercase;color:#000000;font-size:18px;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;color:#D9322B">Molecular/Imaging Unit</span></td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td><td rowspan=20 width=35><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/c/c0/Blank.gif"></td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;line-height:16px;text-align:justify"></</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td height=50>
+
     <tr><td>
-
 
+
-
   
 
     <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0>
     <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0>
-
     <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Jun Soo Kwon, <font size="3px">MD, PhD, Dept. of Psychiatry, SNU</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://neuroimage.net/" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
+
     <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Bong-Kiun Kaang, <font size="3px">Dept. of Biological Sciences, SNU</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.kaanglab.org/" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/2/29/03_img09.jpg"></td>
+
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/1/16/03_img01.jpg"></td>
         <td width=20></td>
         <td width=20></td>
-
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">An expert in pathophysiology in the neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder.<br />
+
         <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">One of the key leading neurobiologists in Korea with expertise on the molecular mechanism of synaptic plasticity and memory from multiple model systems such as Aplysia and mouse.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Extensive publications in journals such as Arch Gen Psychiatry and Brain etc. marking over 80 score of the total impact factor during the last three years.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His recent work on the molecular, cellular mechanism of synaptic plasticity and fear memory is providing a new view, unveiling novel, original molecular mechanisms of memory.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Elected to be councilor in collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP) first in Korea.<br />
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High impact publications in Cell, Science, Neuron, PNAS.<br />
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Unit leader.</td></tr>
+
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Papers on the functional implication of cAMP-PKA-CREB signaling pathway in Aplysia neurons, in collaboration with Dr.Eric Kandel (year 2000 Nobel Laureate, also his lifelong collaborator), had a great impact on molecular neurobiology field (Neuron, 1993; Science, 1993).<br />
 +
 
 +
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Director of National Creative Research Initiative Center for memory; Editor-in-chief of on-line neuroscience journal, Molecular Brain.</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
     <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Jae Sung Lee, <font size="3px">PhD, Dept. of Nuclear Med. and Biomedical Sci., SNU</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://bcs.snu.ac.kr/mediawiki/uploads/6/66/JaeSungLee200904_CV.pdf" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
+
    <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Sang Jeong Kim, <font size="3px">Dept. of Physiology, SNU College of Medicine</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://brain.snu.ac.kr/main.php" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/39/03_img04.jpg"></td>
 +
        <td width=20></td>
 +
        <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">Research focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of information storage and its related brain diseases by combining cutting-edge techniques such as patch clamping, Ca imaging, confocal mocroscopy, UVphotolysis and field/single unit recording from isolated neurons, brain slices and in-vivo animals.<br />
 +
 
 +
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">High impact publications in major journals such as Nature, Neuron, and Journal of Neuroscience, etc, making over 300 score of the total impact factor during last five years.<br />
 +
 
 +
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Published a comprehensive review article in Neuron suggesting that ubiquitous synaptic plasticity is necessary to account for the rich phenomenon of memory storage in the neural network.<br />
 +
 
 +
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Editorial board of the Journal of Neurophysiology.</td></tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 +
 
 +
     <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Jae Sung Lee, <font size="3px"> Dept. of Nuclear Med. and Biomedical Sci., SNU</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://bcs.snu.ac.kr/mediawiki/uploads/6/66/JaeSungLee200904_CV.pdf" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0c/03_img10.jpg"></td>
     <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0c/03_img10.jpg"></td>
Line 215: Line 236:
-
    <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 
-
   
 
-
    <tr><td colspan=3><span style="color:#000000;font-size:19px;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:bold">Moo K. Chung, <font size="3px">Dept. of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, U of Wisconsin-Madison</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://stats.wisc.ac.kr/~mchung" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#D9322B">HOMEPAGE</font></a></span></td></tr>
+
         </table>  
-
    <tr><td height=20 colspan=3>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+
-
    <tr><td width=121 valign=top><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/4/43/03_img11.jpg"></td>
+
-
         <td width=20></td>
+
-
        <td span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;color:#414141;"><img src="/mediawiki/uploads/3/3c/Img_slash.gif">The algorithm and code presented in his 2005 NeuroImage paper is the most widely used cortical data smoothing technique at this moment.<br />
+
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">Chung's cortical surface data filtering technique has been the standard to be compared and to be validated against in the field.<br />
+
    </td></tr>
 +
    <tr><td height=50>&nbsp;</td></tr>
-
<img src="/mediawiki/uploads/0/0d/Img_slash2.gif">His 2001 NeuroImage paper on tensor-based morphometry was the first paper that shows the Jacobian determinant is the only meaningful metric in structural imaging.</td></tr>
 
-
 
-
 
-
    <tr><td height=20>&nbsp;</td></tr>
 
-
    </table>
 
     </td></tr>
     </td></tr>

Current revision as of 03:12, 1 August 2013

 
Gene to Behavior unit
 
 
Seungbok Lee, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, SNU  HOMEPAGE
 
The major goal of Dr Lee’s research is to understand the mechanisms by which the structure and function of neural circuits are controlled in development and disease.
His laboratory uses Drosophila as a genetic model system to address 1) how developing axons migrate towards their targets, 2) how synapses are formed and modified during development and by experience, and 3) how synapses are affected in neurological diseases.
High-impact publications in journals such as Neuron, the Journal of Cell Biology, the Journal of Neuroscience, and Development.
Recent studies of the fly homologs of genes that cause hereditary spastic paraplegia in humans have shed new light on the pathologic mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases.
 
Kyungjin Kim, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, SNU  HOMEPAGE
 
Dr. Kim’s research topics include 1) mammalian biological clock mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms, 2) the synaptic plasticity of maternal stress in the hippocampus and amygdala, and 3) neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying the hypothalamic GnRH pulse generator.
Recently disclosed the circadian nature of glucocorticoid, one of the important circadian oscillators, and the genomic drive of the pulsatile GnRH oscillator in the hypothalamus.
High-impact publications including PNAS, EMBO Rpt, MCB, J. Neuroscience, Mol Endocrinology, and Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. He has published more than 210 peer-reviewed original articles, reviews and invited chapters in books.
Served on numerous society, business, and editorial board and committee review panels in government and private sectors. He was editor-in-chief of Mol Cells and an associate editor for Mol Reproduction & Development. He is currently an editorial board member for Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, Progress in Neurobiology, Neuroendocrinology.
Received numerous accolades, including the MokAm Bioscience Award from the Korean Society of Molecular and Cellular Biology (1997) and an award from the Korea National Academy of Science (2010). He has been a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology since 1999.
 
Seog Bae Oh, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, SNU  HOMEPAGE
 
Studying the neurobiological basis of neuropathic pain at the molecular, cellular and cognitive levels. Dr. Oh’s research aims to link specific gene targets to their effects on perceptual and emotional outcomes in the context of nerve injury-induced pain.
Recently uncovered a hitherto unknown role of the TRPV1 receptor in mediating spinal disinhibition and mechanical pain behaviour after peripheral nerve injury and elucidated a mechanism supporting the effectiveness of centrally administered TRPV1 antagonist drugs in neuropathic pain.
High-impact publications including Neuron, the Journal of Neuroscience, Pain and the Journal of Biochemistry as well as reviews and invited chapters in pain-related publications.
 
Systems & Cognitive Neuroscience unit
 
 
Sang-Hun Lee, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, SNU  HOMEPAGE
 
The major goal of Dr. Lee’s research is to understand the neuronal mechanisms involved in the encoding of sensory inputs and the representation and decoding of relevant information from populations of active neurons.
His laboratory combines fMRI, computational modeling and psychophysics to address how sensory and non-sensory information flows in the human brain are combined to contribute to decisive resolutions of perceptual choices under an environment with high degrees of uncertainty.
High-impact publications in journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, PNAS and the Journal of Neuroscience.
Recent computational neuroimaging studies of cortical point spread functions, choice probability, motion adaptation and time perception in the human visual cortex have been published in top journals in the cognitive/systems neuroscience field.
 
Inah Lee, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, SNU  HOMEPAGE
 
The goals of Dr. Lee’s research are to elucidate how the brain learns a new event and retrieves an event memory effectively to produce adaptive behavior. Event memory under investigation includes object recognition memory, visual contextual memory, and object-place memory.
His main techniques are to test rodents in memory tasks to uncover the functional relationships between brain areas and cognitive functions. Main techniques include perturbation techniques using drug injections and lesions. His lab also monitors the electrophysiological activities of a large number of single units simultaneously and local field potentials in freely moving animals.
He has published articles in high-impact journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, and The Journal of Neuroscience.
Recent behavioral and neurophysiological studies for investigating neural networks (hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, striatum, and perirhinal cortex) pertaining to contextual choice behavior appeared in top-tier journals related to systems of neuroscience.
 
Randolph Blake, Dept. of Psychology, Vanderbilt University  HOMEPAGE
 
Studying important aspects of perception by blending psychophysics, neural modeling and brain imaging.
Acknowledged as a world expert on rivalry and perceptual bistability. Devised clever, revealing "psychoanatomical" strategies for identifying the neural sites of action within human vision.
Dr. Blake's work on the role of the temporal structure in spatial grouping is highly original and has sparked keen interest in that topic.
His 1989 Psychological Review paper on rivalry, the most widely cited theoretical paper on that topic, stimulated an explosion of interest in the phenomena within cognitive neuroscience and neurophysiology.
High-impact publications in Nature (13) and Science (9). His research impact factor is 61.
Coauthor of a widely used textbook on perception (Blake & Sekular, 2005, Perception, McGraw-Hill) now in its fifth edition.
Numerous prestigious awards, including Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Science 2006; Earl Sutherland Award, 2000; APA, Early Career Award, 1977; Thomas Jefferson Award, 2008; IgNobel Prize, 2006; National Academy of Sciences, 2012.
 
Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience unit
 
 
Jun Soo Kwon, MD, PhD, Dept. of Psychiatry, SNU  HOMEPAGE
 
An expert in pathophysiology in the neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Extensive publications in journals such as JAMA Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry with a total impact factor score exceeding 180 over the last three years.
Served as a counselor for Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP), a first for Korea (2008~2012).
Unit leader.
 
Chun Kee Chung, MD, PhD, Dept. of Neurosurgery, SNU   HOMEPAGE
 
An expert in brain function and anatomy, Dr. Chung is the Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Seoul National University College of Medicine.
He installed an MEG system in Korea for the first time. He has annually hosted a workshop about neural data analysis with invitations to internationally renowned researchers.
His research interests cover motor-sensory networks, pain, epilepsy, motor planning, movement intention decoding, the auditory system, and language with numerous papers published.
 
Ki Woong Kim, MD, PhD, Dept. of Psychiatry, SNU  HOMEPAGE
 
Dr. Kim is an expert in geropsychiatry and serving as the director of the National Institute of Dementia and the president of the Korean Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology (KCGP).
His research areas are early diagnosis and intervention in cognitive disorders(dementia and mild cognitive impairment) and late-life depression.
He is leading two community-based elderly cohort projects in Korea (the Korean Longitudinal Study on Health and Aging and the Korean Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging and Dementia).
Published more than 160 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including Biological Psychiatry and Neurology and Stroke, and wrote 11 books on dementia and geriatric psychiatry.
 
Molecular/Imaging Unit
 
 
Bong-Kiun Kaang, Dept. of Biological Sciences, SNU  HOMEPAGE
 
One of the key leading neurobiologists in Korea with expertise on the molecular mechanism of synaptic plasticity and memory from multiple model systems such as Aplysia and mouse.
His recent work on the molecular, cellular mechanism of synaptic plasticity and fear memory is providing a new view, unveiling novel, original molecular mechanisms of memory.
High impact publications in Cell, Science, Neuron, PNAS.
Papers on the functional implication of cAMP-PKA-CREB signaling pathway in Aplysia neurons, in collaboration with Dr.Eric Kandel (year 2000 Nobel Laureate, also his lifelong collaborator), had a great impact on molecular neurobiology field (Neuron, 1993; Science, 1993).
Director of National Creative Research Initiative Center for memory; Editor-in-chief of on-line neuroscience journal, Molecular Brain.
 
Sang Jeong Kim, Dept. of Physiology, SNU College of Medicine  HOMEPAGE
 
Research focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of information storage and its related brain diseases by combining cutting-edge techniques such as patch clamping, Ca imaging, confocal mocroscopy, UVphotolysis and field/single unit recording from isolated neurons, brain slices and in-vivo animals.
High impact publications in major journals such as Nature, Neuron, and Journal of Neuroscience, etc, making over 300 score of the total impact factor during last five years.
Published a comprehensive review article in Neuron suggesting that ubiquitous synaptic plasticity is necessary to account for the rich phenomenon of memory storage in the neural network.
Editorial board of the Journal of Neurophysiology.
 
Jae Sung Lee, Dept. of Nuclear Med. and Biomedical Sci., SNU  HOMEPAGE
 
Research aim is to develop innovative tools to analyze biomedical image data.
Developed novel gamma-ray detectors which allow PET images with very high resolution and sensitivity (IEEE TNS, 2008).
Developing an experimental system for truly simultaneous PET/MR imaging.
Recipients of Young Investigator's Award, Korean Society of Medical and Biological Eng./Nucl. Med./Human Brain Mapp.(2004)
 

Retrieved from "http://147.47.106.42/wiki/People"