Neuroscience and Behavior
Faculty | PhD Requirements | Master's requirements | Courses | AdmissionsNeuroscience 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