Neuroscience Faculty
Director
Elaine Day
Director of the Neuroscience Minor
Associate Professor of Biology
509 Shoemaker Hall
662-915-5444 | lainyday@olemiss.edu
Research: behavioral neuroscience: evolution & neuroplasticity of brain regions
Faculty
Jeffery Bednark
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Peabody 301D
jbednark@olemiss.edu
Research: Cognitive neuroscience, conservation psychology, sense of agency, behavioral change and learning, neuroscience in the classroom
Richard Buchholz
Associate Professor of Biology
104 Shoemaker Hall
662-915-5012 | byrb@olemiss.edu
Research: animal behavior: host-parasite interactions, conservation biology
Alberto J. del Arco
Assistant Professor of Exercise Science
233 Turner Center
Phone: 662-915-5528 | adelarco@olemiss.edu
Research: behavioral neuroscience,: neurophysiology of stress and psychiatric disorders in animal models
Robert Doerksen
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
421 Fraser Hall
662-915-5880 | rjd@olemiss.edu
Research: computational medicinal chemistry
Sharday Ewell
Assistant Professor of Biology
414 Shoemaker Hall
662-915-7203 | snewell1@olemiss.edu
Research: biology education research, metacognition, self-regulated learning, culturally relevant pedagogy, neurobiology, protein trafficking
Carolyn Wiles Higdon
Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
308 George Hall
Phone: 662-915-5122 | chigdon@olemiss.edu
Research: assistive technology; augmentative communications; autism & early intervention; communicative & central auditory processing disorders; evidence based medicine & clinical outcomes; laryngectomy; medical voice issues; spasmodic, oral, & pharyngeal dysphagia; pharmacology & communication disorders
Tossi Ikuta
Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
311 George Hall
662-915-5121 | tikuta@olemiss.edu
Research: neuroimaging, dopaminergic cognitive modulation, human brain genetics, auditory & language processing, computationa; modeling
Mika Jekabsons
Associate Professor of Biology
110 Shoemaker Hall
662-915-3998 | jekabson@olemiss.edu
Research: cell biology: bioenergetics, apoptosis, metabolism
Bradley Jones
Associate Professor of Biology
122 Shoemaker Hall
Phone 662-915-1700 | jonesbw@olemiss.edu
Research: cell biology: cell differentiation, nervous system development, drosophila genetics
Myriam Kornisch
Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
2301 South Lamar Blvd, Suite 1200, Office NE 1635
Phone 662-915-3074 | kornisch@olemiss.edu
Research: cognitive neuroscience – executive functions, motor control, fluency disorders (stuttering), bilingualism, child language development
Christopher Leary
Assistant Professor of Biology
424 Shoemaker Hall
662-915-1087 | cjleary@olemiss.edu
Research: animal behavior: acoustic communication, reproductive endocrinology, neurobiology
Teresa Lefmann
Assistant Professor of Social Work
212 Longstreet
Phone: 662-915-7336 | tlefmann@olemiss.edu
Research: epigenetics, infant brain development, neuroscience, prenatal stress, and social work
Paul Loprinzi
Associate Professor of Exercise Science
229 Turner Center
E-mail: pdloprin@olemiss.edu
Research: examining the effects and mechanisms through which acute exercise influences memory function
Todd Smitherman
Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training
214 310D Peabody
662-915-7203 | tasmithe@olemiss.edu
Research: Psychological and behavioral influences in migraine and other chronic headache disorders; stress and sleep in pain
Gregory Snyder
Associate Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
310 George Hall
662-915-1202 | gsnyder@olemiss.edu
Research: genetic and neurological study of fluency disorders, motor theory & neurosciences, perception & production of language
Roy Thurston
Assistant Professor of Special Education
306 Guyton Hall
662-915-1781 | rthursto@olemiss.edu
Research: traumatic brain injury, neuroscience applications in education
Dwight Waddell
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
302 Anderson Hall
Phone 662-915-7231 | waddell@olemiss.edu
Research: cognitive neuroscience/neuropsychology, neuronmechamics/biomechanics, computer brain interfaces, engineering design
Donovan Wishon
Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Religion
015 Bryant Hall
662-915-5443 | dwishon@olemiss.edu
Research: philosophy of mind/consciousness, philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy