Research

Research in the lab is organized in three main areas described more fully in the links below:

Aging

Emotion and Learning

Neurogenetics and Behavior Center

Current Research Awards

Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation

• Freedom to Discover Award

National Institute of Mental Health

• Associative Functions of the Basolateral Amygdala: M. Gallagher, P.I)
• Role of Amygdala Systems in Associative Learning: P. Holland, P.I., (M. Gallagher Project)
• Cognitive Assessments in the Mouse: M. Gallagher, P.I.

National Institute on Aging

• Cognition and Hippocampal/Cortical Systems in Aging: M. Gallagher, P.I.
• Mechanism of Estrogen Effects on Age-Related Cognitive Decline: M. Gallagher, P.I.

Research Scientist Award

• Amygdala Circuits and Control of Feeding by Learned Cues: G. Petrovich, P.I. (M. Gallagher and P. Holland, sponsors)
• Neural Representations in Prefrontal Systems in Aged Rat: G. Schoenbaum, P.I. (M. Gallagher, sponsor)

Sponsored Fellowships

• Amygdala-Nucleus Accumbens Associative Functions: B. Setlow, P.I. (NRSA)
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship: M. Saddoris.
• Neurogenesis in an Animal Model of Cognitive Aging: J. Bizon, P.I. (NRSA)
• Post Graduate Scholarship-B (PGS-B): K. Helm (NSERC)

Problems with this site? Contact bg@jhu.edu