Seminars & Events
Monday, September 19, 2011: Dr. R. Christopher Pierce (University of Pennsylvania) will speak on "Epigenetic Inheritance of a Cocaine Resistance Phenotype" at 4:45 pm in Goodpaster 195.
Friday, November 4, 2011: Dr. Paul Shepard (University of Maryland Baltimore) will speak at 3:00 pm in Schaefer Hall 106.
Friday, November 11, 2011: Dr. Mark Bouton (University of Vermont) will speak at 3:00 pm in Goodpaster Hall 195.
Alumni Highlight
Dr. Erin Johnson '02 recently received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and was inducted as an alumni member of Nu Rho Psi.
SMP Spotlight
Ron Saul, "Chronic activation of the substantia nigra nociceptin/orphanin receptor induces motor deficits similar to Parkinson's disease," 2008. Saul, the 2008 winner of the Neuroscience Award, infused a drug into the substantia nigra of rats and measured the resulting motor behaviors, mood disturbances, and cognitive abilities.
SYNAPSE meeting, April 1, 2006
Gwen Calhoon presents her SMP work via a poster entitled "The effects of cognitive intervention in adolescence on behavioral abnormalities in a rat model of schizophrenia" (authors Gwendolyn G. Calhoon, Anne Marie Brady)
Ron Saul presents his directed research work via a poster entitled "Effect of a neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion on working memory in rats" (authors Ronald D. Saul, Matthew K. Wiest, Anne Marie Brady)
