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Top Neuroscience Researchers at University of Delaware for 2026
The University of Delaware’s recent neuroscience research spans cognition, mental health, development, and the engineering of how people move, sense, and adapt. Across a sample of works from the last year, the picture is broad but connected: researchers are asking how brain and behavior interact in autism, cognition, affective control, and perception.
Below, you’ll find a snapshot of scholars whose recent publications reflect that range, from clinical and developmental questions to studies that bring neuroscience into conversation with psychology, rehabilitation, and biomedical engineering.
Featured Researchers
Anjana Bhat
Anjana Bhat’s recent work at the University of Delaware centers on cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and psychiatry and mental health, with publications on movement-based interventions, fNIRS measures of synchrony, and autism-focused machine learning.
Activity over the last year: 6 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Effects of Movement and Sedentary Play interventions on executive functioning and their relationships with sensory, repetitive, and negative behaviors of children with ASD – a pilot RCT (Feb 2025)
- Neural Effects of Creative Movement, General Movement, and Sedentary Play Interventions on Interpersonal Synchrony in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Preliminary fNIRS Study (Jun 2025)
- Deep Learning Approaches for Classifying Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Inertial Measurement Unit Hand Tracking Data: Comparative Study (Aug 2025)
Alyssa M. Lanzi
Alyssa M. Lanzi’s recent publications connect psychiatry and mental health with cognitive neuroscience and epidemiology, including studies on patient-reported outcomes, discourse-based language differences, and speech rate as a marker of cognitive impairment.
Activity over the last year: 3 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Speech-Language Pathologists' Use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Adult Patients With Cognitive-Communication Disorders: A Survey Study (Mar 2025)
- Access to context-specific lexical-semantic information during discourse tasks differentiates speakers with latent aphasia, mild cognitive impairment, and cognitively healthy adults (Jan 2025)
- Speech rate as a biomarker of cognitive impairment in technology‐directed tasks (Dec 2025)
Naomi Sadeh
Naomi Sadeh’s recent neuroscience work at the University of Delaware examines childhood maltreatment, affective inhibitory control, and neurocognitive health through fMRI and related studies of stress-linked brain processes.
Activity over the last year: 3 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Dimensions of childhood maltreatment and neural circuits of affective inhibitory control: An fMRI study (Aug 2025)
- Deciphering the Neural Effects of Emotional, Motivational, and Cognitive Challenges on Inhibitory Control Processes (Jan 2025)
- Childhood maltreatment alters associations between age and neurocognitive health metrics in community-dwelling adults (Nov 2025)
Joshua G. A. Cashaback
Joshua G. A. Cashaback’s recent research spans cognitive neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and social psychology, with papers on ongoing deliberation in movement and fine touch perception framed through frictional instabilities.
Activity over the last year: 5 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Philip A. Gable
Philip A. Gable’s recent work combines cognitive neuroscience, applied psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology, from reward-related attentional broadening and HD-tDCS studies to social competence in autistic adolescents.
Activity over the last year: 4 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Seeing the bigger picture: endogenous opioids mediate attentional broadening after reward receipt (Jan 2025)
- Effects of HD-tDCS over Frontal Hemisphere on Effort-Related Cardiovascular Responses (Jul 2025)
- Characterizing the Relationship Among the Social Competence Elements in Autistic Adolescents (Jul 2025)
Dae‐Hyoung Lee
Dae-Hyoung Lee’s recent publications bring together cognitive neuroscience, food science, and general health professions, focusing on physical activity, sedentary behavior, insomnia, and digital intervention strategies for autistic adults.
Activity over the last year: 3 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Correlates of physical activity, sedentary time, and cardiovascular disease risk factors in autistic adults without intellectual disabilities (Mar 2025)
- A Gamified mHealth App to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Autistic Adults: Protocol for a Remotely Delivered Pilot Intervention Study (Jun 2025)
- Insomnia severity and its association with gaming behavior and perceived health in autistic adults (Dec 2025)
Maryanne Derkaloustian
Maryanne Derkaloustian’s recent output at the University of Delaware links cognitive neuroscience with mechanics of materials and organic chemistry, especially in studies of fine touch perception and frictional instabilities.
Activity over the last year: 3 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Alternatives to Friction Coefficient: Fine Touch Perception Correlates with Frictional Instabilities (Aug 2025)
- Frictional instabilities as an alternative to friction coefficient in fine touch perception (Feb 2025)
- Alternatives to Friction Coefficient: Fine Touch Perception Relies on Frictional Instabilities (Feb 2025)
Charles Dhong
Charles Dhong’s recent publications sit at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and mechanics of materials, with repeated attention to fine touch perception and frictional instability.
Activity over the last year: 3 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Alternatives to Friction Coefficient: Fine Touch Perception Correlates with Frictional Instabilities (Aug 2025)
- Frictional instabilities as an alternative to friction coefficient in fine touch perception (Feb 2025)
- Alternatives to Friction Coefficient: Fine Touch Perception Relies on Frictional Instabilities (Feb 2025)
What University of Delaware's Neuroscience Community Is Working On
The most common subfields point to an active neuroscience community centered on cognitive neuroscience, with strong activity in psychiatry and mental health, biomedical engineering, and mechanics of materials. That mix suggests researchers are not only studying brain and behavior in clinical and developmental contexts, but also building methods and tools that connect neural questions to movement, sensation, and intervention design. Across the recent literature, the emphasis is on how cognition, emotion, and perception can be measured and improved in real-world populations.- Cognitive Neuroscience - seen across 7 of the featured researchers
- Psychiatry and Mental health - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Biomedical Engineering - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Mechanics of Materials - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Developmental and Educational Psychology - seen across 1 of the featured researchers
Together, these researchers show a community working across clinical, cognitive, and applied neuroscience to understand behavior and improve measurement, intervention, and care. If you’re exploring similar topics, keep browsing the university’s recent output to spot emerging themes and collaborative intersections. Resub can also help streamline citation discovery, manuscript formatting, and submission prep for your own projects.
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