Dr. Richardson directs the Brain Modulation Lab, a human systems neuroscience lab studying brain electrophysiology and behavior in patients undergoing surgery for epilepsy, movement disorders, and psychiatric disease. A major focus of the lab’s work is...
Functional complexity of a neural circuit depends on features of its component neurons such as spiking characteristics, total number, synaptic structures, and connectivity. In addition to varying across the many nodes of a neural circuit, these neuronal...
Neural mechanisms underlying the auditory phenotype of mild traumatic brain injury.
Our unique perception of the world evolves with experience throughout our lifespan. As neuroscientists we believe that differences in sensory perception, including pathological perturbations of our ability to accurately perceive our environment, partly...
Our research interests lie in understanding the mechanisms and clinical implications of brain plasticity. Auditory brain plasticity exhibits a fundamental duality, a yin and yang, in that it is both a source and possible solution for various types of...
Efferent Auditory Brainstem Circuits
Our laboratory has focused on auditory brainstem circuits that control the middle ear muscle reflexes, one of two major descending systems that provide feedback to the auditory periphery. Collaborating with M. Christian...
Much of our adult behavior reflects the neural circuits sculpted by experience in infancy and early childhood. At no other time in life does the surrounding environment so potently shape brain function – from basic motor skills, sensation or sleep to...
