UCLA Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics
3506 Gonda
695 Charles Young Dr. S.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1761
Contacting Us
Dr. Nelson Freimer is Director of the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics and Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA. He also directs two UCLA core facilities (the Southern California Genotyping Consortium and the Biological Samples Processing Core) as well as the NINDS-funded Postdoctoral Training Program in Neurobehavioral Genetics. He joined the UCLA faculty in 2000 after 10 years on the faculty at UC San Francisco. Dr. Freimer’s laboratory focuses on genetic mapping studies with a particular emphasis on neurobehavioral phenotypes and the investigation of population isolates.
Dr. Daniel Geschwind holds the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics and is a professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is director of the Neurogenetics Program and the Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART) and co-director of the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics. Dr. Geschwind’s laboratory conducts research in three primary areas of neurogenetics: autism and language; focal neurodegenerative syndromes; and the structural/molecular basis of human cognitive specializations.
Faculty
- Carrie E. Bearden
- Dr. Rita M. Cantor
- Dr. Lynn Fairbanks
- Dr. George Jackson
- Dr. Sandra Loo
- Dr. Kelsey Martin
- Stanley F. Nelson
- Dr. Roel Ophoff
- Dr. Christina Palmer
- Dr. Susan L. Smalley
- Dr. Eric Wexler
- Dr. William Yang
Address
UCLA Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics
3506 Gonda, 695 Charles Young Dr. S.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1761
