Behavioral Neurobiology The Cellular Organization of Natural Behavior Tapa blanda - 2004

Thomas J. Carew is Bren Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. He earned his Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, where he began his studies of learning and memory as a graduate student. In addition to numerous journal articles, he has coauthored two books: Perspectives in Neural Systems and Behavior (with D. B. Kelley, Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1989) and Mechanistic Relationships Between Development and Learning (with C. Shatz and R. Menzel, John Wiley & Sons, 1998). Among the many awards he has received are the NIMH Career Development Award (1975--1987), an NIMH MERIT Award (1990--2000), and the Yale College Dylan Hixon Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the Natural Sciences (1990). In addition, Dr. Carew was awarded endowed chairs at both Yale University and the University of California. In Dr. Carew's laboratory, he and his colleagues use the marine mollusk Aplysia to examine the mechanisms by which the nervous system acquires, stores, and retrieves information. Dr. Carew's research interests focus on the cellular and molecular basis of learning and memory, the neuronal basis of behavior, and mechanisms of information processing in the nervous system.