Professor
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Department of Biomedical Engineering (SMD) - Joint
Credentials
Post-doctoral Training & Residency
Post-doctoral Fellow, Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 1997 - 1999
Post-doctoral Fellow, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA. 1996 - 1997
Education
PhD | Univ of Pennsylvania.Neuroscience.1996
MS | Cornell University.Neurobiology.1992
BS | Brown University.Biology.1986
Awards
NSF CAREER Award.2002
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow..2001
Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience, (The Grass Foundation/The Society for Neuroscience)..1997
Saul Winegrad, M.D. Award for outstanding dissertation (Neuroscience) - Biomedical Graduate Studies,.1997
Louis B. Flexner Award for outstanding dissertation research - Institute of Neurological Sciences,.1996
Research
As part of the Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab (CNL) at the University of Rochester, my research focuses on understanding the neural underpinnings of sensory processing, cognitive control of behavior, and the interactions of motor control and executive functions across the human lifespan. We have ongo...
As part of the Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab (CNL) at the University of Rochester, my research focuses on understanding the neural underpinnings of sensory processing, cognitive control of behavior, and the interactions of motor control and executive functions across the human lifespan. We have ongoing projects in the Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit investigating differences in sensory processing in opioid-exposed neonates, and at the other end of the lifespan, studies using our novel Mobile Brain/Body Imaging techniques to uncover hidden cognitive decline in aging and degenerative disease like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The CNL also has a large group working on understanding sensory perception in children and adults who have a diagnosis of Autism, We have projects on sensory processing in children who have rare lysosomal storage disorders (Rett Syndrome and Batten Disease are example). We also have a project investigating visual attention differences in children and adults who are deaf, and we have a project investigating the impact on executive functions of a combined cocaine addiction and HIV+ serostatus.
Fundamentally, my research interests focus on understanding the brain, how neural mechanisms control behavior and how these functions are altered in developmental disorders, due to environmental exposures, and in aging.
Potter A, Dube S, Allgaier N, Loso H, Ivanova M, Barrios LC, Bookheimer S, Chaarani B, Dumas J, Feldstein-Ewing S, Freedman EG, Garavan H, Hoffman E, McGlade E, Robin L, Johns MM
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines.. 2021 February 62 (2):171-179. Epub 05/28/2020.
Mazurek KA, Richardson D, Abraham N, Foxe JJ, Freedman EG
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.. 2020 January 28 (1):287-296. Epub 09/27/2019.
