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Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences
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Team

Leadership

David Paydarfar
Chair, Dept. of Neurology || Director, Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences || Professor, Dept. of Neurology
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Nicholas M. Barbaro
Chair, Dept. of Neurosurgery || Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery|| Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education Strategy, Dept. of Medical Education
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Charles B. Nemeroff
Matthew P. Nemeroff Endowed Chair, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences || Director, Institute for Early Life Adversity Research || Co-Director, Center for Psychedelic Research & Therapy || Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Robert O. Messing
Director, Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research || Professor, Dept. of Neurology || Department Chair, Neuroscience
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Nancy-Lara Millan
Associate Director for Research
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Faculty by Department: Neurology; Neurosurgery; Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Department of Neurology

Professor 
Dave Clark
Professor, Dept. of Neurology || Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics || Courtesy Professor Dept. of Neurosurgery
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Audrey Duarte
Professor, Dept of Neurology || Professor, Dept. of Psychology
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Claudia F. Lucchinetti
Dean, Dell Medical School || Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin || Frank and Charmaine Denius Distinguished Dean’s Chair in Medical Leadership || Professor, Dept. of Neurology
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Moodley Manikum
Professor, Dept. of Neurology
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Robert O. Messing
Director, Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research || Professor, Dept. of Neurology || Dept. Chair, Neuroscience
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José del R. Millán
Professor, Dept. of Neurology || Professor, Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in Engineering
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Linda J. Noble-Haeusslein
Professor, Dept. of Neurology || Professor, Dept. of of Psychology
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David Paydarfar
Chair, Dept. of Neurology || Director, Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences || Professor, Dept. of Neurology
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E. Steve Roach
Associate Chair for Clinical Integration & Operations, Dept. of Neurology | Professor, Dept. of Neurology | Program Director, Child Neurology Residency
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Veda V Vedanarayanan
Professor, Dept. of Neurology
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Steven Warach
Professor, Dept. of Neurology || Director of the Seton Clinical Research Institute
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Associate Professor
Jared F Benge
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurology
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Liberty Hamilton
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurology || Associate Professor Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Michela Marinelli
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurology || Associate Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience || Courtesy Associate Professor, Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
The Neuroscience of Addiction and Motivation Short Bio
Jun Wang
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurology || Associate Professor, Dept. of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Speech Disorders and Technology LabShort Bio

Assistant Professor 
Alyssa Aguirre, LCSW
Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Social Work || Assistant Director, Dementia Care Transformation, Dept of Neurology
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Cynthia Austin
Assistant Professor
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Rachel Bridges
Assistant Professor of Neurology
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Audrey Brumback
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology || Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatric
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Joshua Chang
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology || Courtesy Assistant Professor, Dept of Population Health
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Laureen Dobbs
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosciences & Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology
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Adrienne Dula
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology || Courtesy Assistant Professor, Dept. of Diagnostic Medicine
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Daniel Freedman
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology
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Leorah Freeman
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology || Courtesy Assistant Professor, Dept. of Diagnostic Medicine
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Andrew D. Gaudet
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology || Courtesy Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology
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Duriel Hardy
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology || Courtesy Assistant Professor, Dept of Pediatrics
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Corinne Jones
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology || Assistant Professor, Dept. Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
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Kristina Julich
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology
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Howard MacKenzie
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience || Courtesy Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology
Howard Neuro LabShort bio
Esther Melamed
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology
The Melamed LabShort bio
Ethan Meltzer
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology || Associate Program Director, Neurology Residency
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Hamidreza (Reza) Saber
Assistant Professor of Neurology (Interventional)
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Bonnie Scott
Assistant Professor of Neurology
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Department of Neurosurgery 
Nicholas M. Barbaro
Chair, Dept. of Neurosurgery || Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery|| Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education Strategy, Dept. of Medical Education
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Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery || Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery, UT Health Austin || Co-Chief, Pediatric Neurosciences, UT Health Austin || Associate Chair of Research, Dept. of Neurosurgery || Courtesy Associate Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics
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Omar Iqbal
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery
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Benjamin Umlauf
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery
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Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Professor
Charles B. Nemeroff
Matthew P. Nemeroff Endowed Chair, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences || Director, Institute for Early Life Adversity Research || Co-Director, Center for Psychedelic Research & Therapy || Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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D. Jeffrey Newport
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences || Associate Chair for Research, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences || Professor, Dept. of Women’s Health || Director, Women's Reproductive Mental Health, UT Health Austin
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Rex A. Wright
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences || Courtesy faculty Dept. of Business, Government and Society
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Associate Professor
Jorge Almeida
Director, Bipolar Disorder Center, Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences || Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Justin Benzer
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Josh Cisler
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Suzannah K. Creech
Assistant Dean of Research, Office of Research || Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Tawny L. Smith
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Assistant Professor 
Karl Chiang
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Deborah Cohen
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Center for Youth Mental Health Websiteshort bio
Jennifer Donegan
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences || Assistant Professor Dept. of Neuroscience
Donegan LabShort bio
Joseph Dunsmoor
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences || Assistant Professor Dept. of Neuroscience
Dunsmoor LabShort bio
Lief Ericsson Fenno
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences || Assistant professor Dept. of neuroscience
Fenno LabShort bio
Gregg Fonzo
Co-Director, Center for Psychedelic Research & Therapy || Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Fonzo LabShort bio
Sarah Gojer
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Mbemba Jabbi
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Laboratory of Affective Neurogeneticsshort bio
Roshni Koli
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Elizabeth (Beth) Lippard
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
The Main Labshort bio
Caitlin Orsini
Assistant Professor of Psychology || Courtesy Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Orsini Lab websiteShort bio
Nicholas Ortiz
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Rishi Sawhney
Associate Chair for Community Psychiatry || Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Latest News

  • A Jolt of Innovation for Brain-Computer Interfaces June 16, 2025
  • Sound Waves That Heal: A Breakthrough for Depression and Anxiety May 12, 2025
  • Celebrating our Mulva Faculty Members Promotions March 24, 2025
  • UT CARE Initiative Seminar Series Speaker – Cemal Ozemek – Friday, 2/28/25 February 25, 2025
  • James Sulzer Student Travel Award to attend a conference: deadline Jan 15, 2025 December 15, 2024

Latest Publications

Do We All Do the Same Things? Applicability of Daily Activities at the Intersection of Demographics. Neuropsychology.

Prefrontal Cortical Dynorphin Peptidergic Transmission Constrains Threat-driven Behavioral and Network States. Neuron.

Knockdown of Tlr3 in Dorsal Striatum Reduces Ethanol Consumption and Acute Functional Tolerance in Male Mice. Brain Behav Immun.

Longitudinal Associations of Physical and Emotional Distress Tolerance with Pain Intensity and Pain-Related Disability in United States Veterans. The Journal of Pain.

Combining Detrended Cross-Correlation Analysis with Riemannian Geometry-based Classification for Improved Brain-computer Interface Performance. Front Neurosci.

The Role of Occipital Condyle and Atlas Anomalies on Occipital Cervical Fusion Outcomes in Chiari Malformation Type I with Syringomyelia: a Study from the Park-Reeves Syringomyelia Research Consortium. J Neurosurg Pediatr.

For a complete list of publications go to our Publications page!

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