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Kent C. Berridge [1] (born 1957) is an American academic, currently working as a professor of psychology (biopsychology) and neuroscience at the University of Michigan. Berridge was a joint winner of the 2018 Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. [2]
Behavioral neuroscience, also known as biological psychology, [1] biopsychology, or psychobiology, [2] is part of the broad, interdisciplinary field of neuroscience, with its primary focus being on the biological and neural substrates underlying human experiences and behaviors, as in our psychology.
His research there has focused on behavioral, psychological, and neural development. In 1997, Blumberg was honored with an APA Distinguished Scientific Early Career Award for his research on behavioral and physiological development. [2] In 2002, his first book, Body Heat: Temperature and Life on Earth, was published by Harvard University Press.
Rae Silver is a Canadian behavioral neuroendocrinologist and neuroscientist best known for her research on the role of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus in generating circadian rhythms, the role of mast cells in the brain, the physiological mechanisms of parental behavior in ring doves.
Theresa A. Jones is a researcher and professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the Institute for Neuroscience. [1] Her interests are in neural plasticity across the lifespan, motor skill learning, mechanisms of brain and behavioral adaptation to brain damage, and glial-neuronal interactions. [2]
Marcus Robert Munafò, [1] (born 23 January 1972) [2] is a British psychologist who has been a professor of biological psychology at the University of Bristol's School of Experimental Psychology since 2010. [3] He became the editor-in-chief of Nicotine & Tobacco Research in 2015. [4]
Biological psychiatry or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system.It is interdisciplinary in its approach and draws on sciences such as neuroscience, psychopharmacology, biochemistry, genetics, epigenetics and physiology to investigate the biological bases of behavior and psychopathology.
White was an undergraduate student at Connecticut College, where she majored in biopsychology. [1] She was a graduate student at Stanford University , where she studied neuroscience. [ 1 ] Her research considered social control of the expression of gonadotropin-releasing hormones . [ 2 ]