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  • Training Environment:

    Penn's Psychology Department enjoys a longstanding commitment to training students and postdoctoral fellows in behavioral neuroscience. With adjacent labs and various shared facilities, the behavioral neuroscience faculty have several complimentary interests.

  • Research Topics:

    Feeding, reproductive, naturally rewarding and communicative behaviors, neuroendocrinology, neurophysiology, autonomic physiology, behavioral pharmacology, neuropeptides, and limbic, hypothalamic and brainstem neural circuits.

  • Methodological Approaches:

    Analysis of behavior (courtship, mating, meal patterning, reward) using computer-based, electromyographic and videographic approaches, electrophysiology, neuroanatomy (cell filling, tract tracing, immunocytochemistry), and physiological measurement (thermal, energy expenditure, tissue and plasma analysis of hormones and fuels).

  • Neuroscience at Penn:

    Behavioral Neuroscience with Psychology is a key component of the university-wide David Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences (INS). With approximately 150 faculty members, INS provides expertise in almost every aspect of neuroscience. Psychology graduate students and postdocs can take advantage of a host of graduate course offerings, weekly seminars, an annual Neuroscience retreat and an annual Behavior Neuroscience Student Retreat.

W E L C O M E

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  • Comings and Goings: We welcome incoming first year students in psychology and neuroscience. We also extend a warm welcome to our new postdocs and technicians, including David Moorman and Elena Weinreb.
  • Milestones: Congratulations to Lex in the Peoples lab and Gerald Griffin in the Flanagan-Cato lab for recently passing their prelims.
  • Recruiting: This academic year (2005-2006) we are conducting a search for a new faculty member.

    We welcome applications for graduate and postdoctoral positions in the Flanagan-Cato, Grill and Peoples labs.