[FieldTrip] Postdoc position in simultaneous electrophysiology of frontal cortex and basal ganglia during action control in humans

[Adam Aron]

A funded postdoctoral position is available in the lab of Adam Aron (PhD) at University of California San Diego (www.aronlab.org <http://www.aronlab.org/>) to work collaboratively with Nader Pouratian (MD, PhD) at University of California Los Angeles (http://tinyurl.com/gwuvbja <http://tinyurl.com/gwuvbja>).

The studies will be done in the operating room in patients with Parkinson’s disease who are having electrodes implanted in global pallidus or subthalamic nucleus.
 
The project is to design behavioral tasks, acquire simultaneous local field potential data from basal ganglia and frontal cortex (ECoG) while patients perform the tasks, and to analyze the data using time frequency methods and measures of connectivity and causal flow.
 
The candidate will be based in San Diego with occasional travel to Los Angeles for data collection.
 
This is a substantial postdoctoral training opportunity either for candidates with signal processing expertise (engineering/computer science/neuroscience) who want to branch out into cognition (especially as it pertains to action control); or for cognitive neuroscience candidates who already have cognitive (and frontal-basal-ganglia) expertise and want to learn human electrophysiological analysis methods.

Candidates must have a PhD, or be about to be awarded one.
 
Applications (and enquiries) should be sent to adamaron at ucsd.edu <mailto:adamaron at ucsd.edu> and should consist in:
- a subject line “electrophysiology of frontal cortex and basal ganglia”
- a cover letter describing research interests and how those are a match for the lab
- a CV
- contact info for references
 
Salary is commensurate with NIH-rates. Non US Citizens are welcome. Full University of California benefits are provided. Applications for the position are open until March 15th 2016. The position is available immediately and for ~3 years. A delayed start time is also possible.

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Adam R. Aron
Professor, Department of Psychology
Neuroscience Graduate Program
University of California, San Diego
www.aronlab.org <http://www.aronlab.org/>
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