8 faculty and 31 courses in Neuroscience at Wellesley College.
- Barbara Beltz, Allene Lummis Russell Professor Emerita of Neuroscience h-index 43
Es on the production of new neurons in the adult nervous system (adult neurogenesis), using the crustacean brain as the model system. My laboratory’s primary goal is to understand the sequence of events leading to the production of new nerv
Notable: “Mapping of serotonin-like immunoreactivity in the lobster nervous system” (1983) · 258 citations
- Marc Tetel, Allene Lummis Russell '46 Professor of Neuroscience h-index 33
Neuroendocrinology, effects of hormones, and lifestyle factors on the human microbiome. Visit the Tetel Lab website . My lab is interested in how the ovarian steroid hormones, estradiol and progesterone, regulate behavior and physio
- Sharon Gobes, Professor of Neuroscience h-index 16
Notable: “Acute off-target effects of neural circuit manipulations” (2015) · 384 citations
- Sara Wasserman, Associate Professor of Neuroscience h-index 11
Es on examining the genetic identities, cellular mechanisms, circuit physiology, and computations that underlie the behavioral algorithms that allow nervous systems to discriminate and assign subjective value to sensory stimuli in order to
Notable: “An olfactory neuron responds stochastically to temperature and modulates Caenorhabditis elegans thermotactic behavior” (2008) · 158 citations
- Courtney Marshall, Kresa Family Assistant Professor of Neuroscience h-index 10
Es on the microtubule associated protein tau and glutamatergic receptors. Specifically, we are interested in elucidating how the synaptic
- Deborah Bauer, Associate Teaching Professor in Neuroscience
- Ginny Quinan, Associate Teaching Professor in Neuroscience
- Mike Wiest, Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Es on sensory integration in rats, attempting to understand how neural activity in different parts of the brain gets combined or coordinated to generate a single coherent perception. Because we can only infer mental states in rats from thei
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