Michael Burman and colleagues present research on fear conditioning at Society for Neuroscience meeting

Michael Burman, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences (CEN), presented research from his lab in a presentation at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego on Nov 10, 2013.  The title of the presentation was 鈥淔ear conditioning activates different neural circuitry at PD 17 and PD 24 in the rat.鈥

Joining Burman in the presentation were Alex Deal and Kristen Erickson, outreach coordinators for CEN鈥檚 K-12 outreach program, which places 51小黄车faculty, staff, and students in K-12 schools to teach grade appropriate, interactive training modules in neuroscience topics.
 

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