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Neuroscience and Behavior Faculty

James V. Corwin, Professor (Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1979)

Recovery of function from brain damage; prefrontal cortex; neural mechanisms underlying attention and spatial behavior.

E-mail: tjojvc1@wpo.cso.niu.edu

Leslie Matuszewich, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1997)

Effects of chronic and acute stress on behavior and the brain; neurotransmitter regulation of the stress response; animal models of depression; neural regulation of sexual behavior in rats.

E-mail: lmatusze@niu.edu

Douglas G. Wallace, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Kent State University, 2000)

Rodent models of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease; topographical disorientation; neuro-ethology.

E-mail: dwallace@niu.edu