We are a team of neuroscientists, physicians, engineers, students, interns, and all around good people committed to understanding the brain.

  • Bashar Badran, PhD

    Neuro-X Founder, Director

  • Xiaolong Peng, PhD

    Instructor & PI

  • Andrew Manett, MD

    Clinical Team Member & PI

  • E. Baron Short, MD

    Clinical Team Member

  • Dan Hu, PhD

    Post-Doctoral Fellow

  • Christopher Austelle, MD

    Clinical Team Member, Chief Resident

  • Catherine Lewan, PT, DPT

    Research Physical Therapist

  • Brenna Baker-Vogel

    Lab Manager/Lead Research Coordinator

  • Kristin Wills

    Medical Student

  • Ruiqi Wang

    Comp Core Researcher

  • Falon Sutton

    Research Coodinator

  • John Robinson

    Research Coordinator

  • Dillon Connolly

    Research Coordinator

  • Abby Short

    Undergraduate Trainee

  • Nicole Cash

    Research Coordinator

  • Marion Wood

    Undergraduate Trainee

Neuro-X Collaborators

Jeffrey J. Borckardt, PhD (MUSC)

Brian Fallon, MD (Columbia)

Marom Bikson, PhD (City College New York)

Denise Wilkes, MD (UTMB)

Kathryn Cunningham, PhD (UTMB)

David Houghton, PhD (UTMB)

Navid Khodaparast (Spark Biomedical)

Melanie McWade (Spark Biomedical)

Dorothea Jenkins, MD (MUSC)

Vanessa Hinson, MD (MUSC)

Bernadette Cortese, PhD (MUSC)

About MUSC

The Neuro-X Lab is part of the Department of Psychiatry at the
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). We take students and trainees from the MUSC Department of Neuroscience (College of Graduate Studies) as well as from the College of Medicine’s FLEX Phase Research Program, and the Department of Psychiatry Residency program.

MUSC Department of Neuroscience:

The department houses the Neuroscience Graduate Program, an innovative training program for Ph.D., M.D./Ph.D. and Master’s Degree candidates, and the MUSC Brain Research Institute (MBRI), a center of research, training, outreach, and advocacy that promotes neuroscience research across MUSC, the state, and the nation. The department currently houses two NIH T32 pre- and postdoctoral training grants (NIDA and NIAAA), a NIH P50 Center of Excellence (Center for Opioid and Cocaine Addiction), and it manages the MUSC Center for Biomedical Imaging, an advanced imaging facility for human and animal research.

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MUSC Department of Psychiatry:

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is a busy and productive academic department within the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), emphasizing excellence in teaching, research, and clinical care. Our diverse and talented faculty is committed to providing the highest quality of patient care in the treatment of mental illness and addiction. The Department hosts 11 individual divisions, as well as nine specialty programs, that provide focused treatment to our patients. Research is also an important part of our department, and faculty continuously conduct studies in an effort to better understand and treat mental health conditions.

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