Affiliation

• School of Optometry

Research expertise

• Normal and pathological visual system (humans)
• Normal and pathological visual system (monkeys)
• Addiction (Alcohol/marijuana; monkeys)

Main research projects

• The endocannabinoid system beyond the retina in the vervet monkey
• Susceptibility of the Adolescent Monkey Brain to Chronic Cannabis Exposure
• Neurodevelopmental effects of fetal cannabis exposure in the vervet monkey
• Structural and functional changes in the brain of early and late blind individuals
• Development of new sensory substitution devices for navigation in the blind

Approaches used

• Anatomical techniques
• Immunohistochemistry
• Psychophysics, neurobehavior
• fMRI, PET, TMS, diffusion imaging

Keywords

Vision, Brain imaging, Blindness, Crossmodal plasticity, Addiction