In the past 20 years, there has been a surge of interest in using neuroimaging to study the biological basis of self and person knowledge. However, typical neuroimaging studies on these topics employ designs in which subjects have to think about a target that is familiar to all participants but interpersonally distant (e.g. a fictional person, celebrity, or former president). In other designs, the target is interpersonally close to individual participants but different for each person in the study (e.g. each participant’s best friend or family member).

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Macroscopic Mapping of Human White Matter: From Descriptive Anatomy to Quantitative Morphometrics

Optimal Feedback Control as a Model of Voluntary Control: Implications for the Neural Basis of Control

Optimal Feedback Control as a Model of Voluntary Control: Sophisticated Corrective Responses in Humans

Up to 1/3rd of adolescents and young adults showing risk signs and subtle symptoms (i.e., those meeting criteria for a clinical high-risk syndrome) will go on to develop a psychotic disorder such as schizophrenia in a two-year period.  The syndrome has received a good deal of attention because if clinicians can intervene early, they may be able to lessen or prevent the progression of illness progression all together.

Dr. Saltzman’s research focuses broadly on the integrative biology of biparental care. Her lab uses the monogamous California mouse (*Peromyscus californicus*), a species in which, unlike the vast majority of mammals, both parents invest extensively in raising their offspring. One major theme of her lab’s work is the effects of parenthood on parents’ morphology, physiology, and behavior.