Area Contact: Gorica Petrovich—Neurobiology of motivation and feeding behavior; functional organization of the brain systems mediating environmental control of food intake, specifically interactions between the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and hypothalamus; modulation of hunger and satiety mechanisms by learning and stress.

Alexa Veenema—Stress and Social Behavior: understanding the neurobiological regulation of social behaviors (play-fighting, aggression, social cognition, and social anxiety), modulation of social behaviors by early life stress, role of neuropeptides (vasopressin,oxytocin) in social behaviors.

For information on the Neuroscience Ph.D. track, see this description in the Graduate Program Handbook.