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Top Neuroscience Researchers at Temple University for 2026
Temple University’s neuroscience community has been especially active over the past year, with research spanning mental health, brain-based disease, behavior, and the biology that connects them. From clinical questions to cellular mechanisms, the work reflects a broad and tightly connected field.
Below, you’ll find a closer look at researchers whose recent publications help map out how Temple teams are approaching neuroscience from multiple angles, including cognition, sleep, psychiatric research, and molecular pathways in the brain.
Featured Researchers
Lauren M. Ellman
Lauren M. Ellman’s recent work at Temple University centers on schizophrenia research, with attention to cognitive assessment, biomarker strategy, and neuroimaging protocol design.
Activity over the last year: 15 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Cognitive assessment in the Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia Program: harmonization priorities and strategies in a diverse international sample (Mar 2025)
- Body fluid biomarkers and psychosis risk in The Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia Program: design considerations (May 2025)
- The MR neuroimaging protocol for the Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia Program (Apr 2025)
Silvia Fossati
Silvia Fossati has focused on how fibrillar tau and amyloid-related stress affect cerebral endothelial metabolism, inflammation, barrier function, and vascular injury.
Activity over the last year: 6 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Fibrillar tau alters cerebral endothelial cell metabolism, vascular inflammatory activation, and barrier function in vitro and in vivo (Mar 2025)
- Fibrillar tau promotes endothelial dysfunction through RAGE signaling and AGEs production (Dec 2025)
- Oxygen Glucose Deprivation Differentially Potentiates Aβ40 E22Q ‐ and Aβ42‐induced Cerebral Endothelial Cell Death, Barrier Dysfunction, and Angiogenesis Impairment (Dec 2025)
Thomas M. Olino
Thomas M. Olino’s recent publications connect cognitive neuroscience with adolescent sleep regularity, substance use risk, depression, and brain development.
Activity over the last year: 8 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience (Jan 2025)
- Sleep regularity in adolescents: Associations with sleep, rest–activity indices, and prospective substance use and depression (Feb 2025)
- Decreased hippocampal neurite density in late-middle-aged adults following prenatal exposure to higher levels of maternal inflammation (Oct 2025)
Lauren B. Alloy
Lauren B. Alloy’s recent Temple University work examines sleep regularity, executive function, circadian timing, and mood symptoms in clinically relevant samples.
Activity over the last year: 6 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Sleep regularity in adolescents: Associations with sleep, rest–activity indices, and prospective substance use and depression (Feb 2025)
- Base Rates of Low Delis Kaplan Executive Function System Scores in Individuals With Anorexia Nervosa (Apr 2025)
- Melatonin Circadian Phase Timing and Stability: Associations With Mood Symptoms Among a Clinically‐Enriched Sample of Young Adults With Mood Disorders (Dec 2025)
Scott M. Rawls
Scott M. Rawls is studying molecular and behavioral responses to methamphetamine and cocaine, including IL-17A, TNF inhibition, and GLT-1 modulation in animal models.
Activity over the last year: 6 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Blocking IL-17A inhibits methamphetamine-induced hyperlocomotion and conditioned place preference and prevents methamphetamine abstinence-induced depression-like behaviors in mice (Jun 2025)
- Etanercept, a peripherally restricted TNF inhibitor, enhances cocaine-induced locomotor behaviors in male, but not female, rats (May 2025)
- Positive allosteric modulator of GLT-1 reduces methamphetamine hyperlocomotion, sensitization and conditioned place preference in mice (Feb 2025)
Philip C. Kendall
Philip C. Kendall’s recent research focuses on adapted cognitive behavioral therapy for autistic children and youth with anxiety, along with how outcomes are measured.
Activity over the last year: 5 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Autistic School-Aged Children with Interfering Anxiety: Impact on Caregiver-Defined Goals (May 2025)
- Social Responsiveness as a Mediator in Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Autistic Youth with Maladaptive and Interfering Anxiety (May 2025)
- How well can commonly used anxiety scales detect treatment outcomes in the context of autism? (Jul 2025)
Lee-Yuan Liu-Chen
Lee-Yuan Liu-Chen’s recent publication addresses kappa opioid receptor agonists as potential approaches for opioid use disorder and cocaine use disorder.
Activity over the last year: 4 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Lynn G. Kirby
Lynn G. Kirby’s work spans serotonin biology, social isolation stress, and neural substrates linked to ethanol motivation and cocaine memory reconsolidation.
Activity over the last year: 4 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Exploring the effects of adolescent social isolation stress on the serotonin system and ethanol-motivated behaviors (Feb 2025)
- The ventral hippocampus and nucleus accumbens as neural substrates for cocaine contextual memory reconsolidation (Nov 2025)
- Behavioral impact of chemogenetic manipulations of 5-HT DRN neurons in transgenic Tph2-iCre rats (Nov 2025)
What Temple University's Neuroscience Community Is Working On
Across Temple University’s neuroscience output, the most common subfields suggest a community working at the intersection of clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. That mix points to a research environment that studies both lived experience and underlying biology, with additional attention to psychiatry, mental health, and public health. In practice, this means the recent literature spans anxiety and mood symptoms, sleep and cognition, substance use, autism-focused interventions, and molecular mechanisms tied to brain function and disease.- Clinical Psychology - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Psychiatry and Mental health - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
These recent projects show how Temple University researchers are contributing to neuroscience across levels of analysis, from patient-centered questions to mechanisms in cells and circuits. If you’re exploring similar literature, it can help to keep track of authors, subfields, and manuscript details as you move from discovery to submission. Resub is built to support that workflow with tools for citation discovery, formatting, and submission prep.
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