His research interests include neuroanatomical and neurophysiological substrates of learning and memory; the effects of alcohol on neural and behavioral function; neurobiological and behavioral models of fetal alcohol syndrome; and the neurobiology of simple human learning, memory, and cognitive function.
Research Area: Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychobiology, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory; Clinical Neuroscience
Current Research:
- Neuroanatomical and neurophysiological substrates of learning and memory
- Effects of alcohol on neural and behavioral function
- Neurobiological and behavioral models of fetal alcohol syndrome
- Neurobiology of simple human learning, memory and cognitive function
- Cellular, synaptic, and network neural processes involved in acquisition and performance of simple learning
- Similarities and differences in brain structures and systems involved in appetitive and aversive learning
- Influences of emotion on brain activity associated with learning
- Behavioral and neural correlates of simple learning and memory in humans.
- Genetic and developmental models of alcohol effects on neural function and behavior.
The Steinmetz laboratory is interested in delineating the neural structures and systems involved in mammalian learning and memory.
My research interests include the study of the neural substrates of simple associative learning and memory such as the brain systems involved in classical conditioning and signaled instrumental conditioning. I also study the effects of alcohol on behavioral and neural function and behavioral and neural development. My research involves many levels of analyses including studies of:
Cellular, synaptic, and network neural processes involved in acquisition and performance of simple learning.
Similarities and differences in brain structures and systems involved in appetitive and aversive learning.
Influences of emotion on brain activity associated with learning.
Behavioral and neural correlates of simple learning and memory in humans.
Genetic and developmental models of alcohol effects on neural function and behavior.
Anesthesia, Arousal, Brain Electrical Activity, Brain Pathway Tract, Cerebellum, Conditioning, Electrostimulus, Eyelid, Laboratory Rabbit, Learning, Neural Plasticity, Nictitating Membrane, Nontherapeutic Iontophoresis, Single Cell Analysis
