Meet the Faculty - University of Nebraska Medical Center //
The city of Omaha is home to a vibrant, multifaceted neuroscience community that consists of four major research institutions within a three mile area: the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Boys Town National Research Hospital, and Creighton University. Trainees in this highly-collaborative research environment study with faculty teams that stretch across these institutions, utilizing state-of-the-art technology to investigate the neural dynamics that serve cognitive processing throughout development.
Tony Wilson, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska Medical Center
http://www.unmc.edu/pharmacology/faculty/primary-faculty/wilson/
Keywords: oscillation, cortex, MEG, motor, tDCS, attention, working memory
Max Kurz, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska Medical Center
http://www.unmc.edu/mmi/about/mmifaculty/maxkurzphd.html
Keywords: sensorimotor integration, motor learning, magnetoencephalography
Amy Badura-Brack, Ph.D.
Creighton University
https://www.creighton.edu/ccas/psychology/facstaff/
fulltimefaculty/dramybadurabrack/
Keywords: trauma, psychopathology, behavioral disorders, resilience
David Warren, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Keywords: hippocampus, medial temporal lobe, memory, amnesia, language
James Blair, Ph.D.
Boys Town National Research Hospital
https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/CenterNeurobehav
Research/Pages/default.aspx
Keywords: conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, irritability, cognitive neuroscience, fMRI, maltreatment
Jeffrey French, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska Omaha
http://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/callitrichid
Keywords: oxytocin, social behavior, social cognition, nonhuman primate, neuropeptides
Karina Blair, Ph.D.
Boys Town National Research Hospital
https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/
CenterNeurobehavResearch/Pages/default.aspx
Keywords: anxiety disorders, cognitive neuroscience, fMRI, self-referential processing, trauma
Lori Leibold, Ph.D.
Boys Town National Research Hospital
https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/Pages/Lori-Leibold.aspx
Keywords: auditory development, auditory scene analysis, speech-in-noise, hearing loss, bilingual speech perception
Maital Neta, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska Lincoln
http://psychology.unl.edu/can-lab
Keywords: emotion, individual differences, amygdala, resting-state fMRI, development
Maya Khanna, Ph.D.
Creighton University
http://www.creighton.edu/ccas/psychology/facstaff/fulltimefaculty/drmayakhanna/
Keywords: cognitive development, language processing, memory, executive function, lead-exposure
Nicholas Smith, Ph.D.
Boys Town National Research Hospital
https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/Faculty/Pages/NicholasSmith.aspx
Keywords: auditory development, speech, music, event-related potentials (ERP), eye tracking
Ryan Wong, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska Omaha
https://sites.google.com/a/unomaha.edu/wonglab/
Keywords: behavioral neurogenomics, neuroethology, neuroplasticity, stress
Soonjo Hwang, MD
University of Nebraska Medical Center
http://www.unmc.edu/psychiatry/index.html
Keywords: child and adolescent psychiatry, disruptive behavior, emotional dysregulation, clinical trials, neuroimaging
Stuart White, Ph.D.
Boys Town National Research Hospital
https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/
CenterNeurobehavResearch/Pages/default.aspx
Keywords: antisocial behavior, neuroscience, fMRI, callous-unemotional traits, developmental psychopathology
Ryan McCreery, Ph.D.
Boys Town National Research Hospital
https://www.boystownhospital.org/research/AudiologicalVestibularResearch/Pages/
AudibilityPerceptionandCognitionLab.aspx
hearing aids, children, speech perception, cognition, and language
Janelle Beadle, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska – Omaha
social and affective neuroscience, lifespan development, aging, empathy, neuropsychological patient studies
