Behavioral Neuroscience Program
The behavioral neuroscience division of the psychology department at ASU consists of nine full-time (tenured, tenure-track, joint, adjunct) faculty with diverse research interests in subject areas including learning and memory, mathematical modeling of behavior, aging and neurodegenerative diseases, behavioral and neurobiological consequences of drug abuse and stress, feeding behavior, and recovery of function after brain damage. A variety of methods are utilized within each laboratory to investigate such phenomena, including molecular, genetic, neuroanatomical, pharmacological, neuroimaging, and, of course, behavioral techniques. Students interested in joining our program are encouraged to learn more about the faculty research and to contact the faculty directly with any questions or comments. If the faculty's interests appeal to your own, be sure to follow the links on this page to learn more about the program
Some faculty within the Department of Psychology participate in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Graduate Program. Please visit their site to learn more about the program.
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Heather Bimonte Nelson The objective of our laboratory is to determine relationships between hormonal, cognitive and neurobiological alterations during aging using animal models. |
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Elizabeth D. Capaldi Dr. Capaldi's research aims to understand the learning processes that produce conditioned food preferences. The research concerns how flavors come to be preferred by being associated with already preferred flavors or with nutrients. |
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Cheryl Conrad The studies performed in our lab investigate morphological and functional changes in the hippocampus following chronic stress. Our studies investigate the mechanism(s) that underlie changes in hippocampal dendritic morphology following chronic stress to facilitate treatment strategies for cognitive improvement. |
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Ronald Hammer (joint appointment with BN) My laboratory studies plasticity and neural adaptation in mesocorticolimbic systems. We have focused on the nucleus accumbens (NAc) due to its involvement in addiction and certain symptoms of schizophrenia... More... |
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Peter Killeen The Operant Behavioral Research Lab at Arizona State University is dedicated to the experimental analyses of behavior. |
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Janet Neisewander The primary research focus of the lab is to study the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie drug dependence and cravin |
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| Federico Sanabria We study basic processes that are critical to understand human and non-human behavior. | |
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Helms Tillery (Affiliate BN) The overall aim of the research carried out in the SMoRG lab is to both understand the intricacies of neural control of real arm movement, and to address crucial bioengineering issues in the design of neuro-electronic hybrid systems. |