The J.P. Scott Center for Neuroscience, Mind & Behavior at Bowling Green State University is an interdisciplinary research center that is comprised of faculty, post-doctoral researchers, graduate, and undergraduate students from the Departments of Psychology, Biology, Communication Disorders and Philosophy, who are pursuing interdisciplinary programs of research that advance understanding of the dynamic relationship between the nervous system, mind, and behavior. Our general mission is to offer a mechanistic understanding of integrated systems of behavior at levels of analysis that bridge individual molecules, cells, and circuits with mental processes and cognition. We welcome and encourage participation of faculty and students with interdisciplinary research interests in the neural or cognitive sciences that contribute to the broad Center mission at any level of analysis.

SPRING 2012  Brain Awareness Events

March 26th Bikes and Brain Injury that includes a Bicycle Helmet Givaway (Student Union BallRoom from 10am to 3pm)

April 24th: Brain, Mind and Spirit Event (Student Union Theatre from 6-9pm)

BRAIN:  Within the discipline of neuroscience, all human behavior is viewed through the lens of the electrochemical signals which course through our neurons and ultimately drive our actions and speech.  This discipline asserts that all human accomplishment, as well as all foibles and suffering can be understood in terms of these brain mechanisms.   MIND:  At the same time, these mechanical workings of the brain must also somehow correspond to the inner, subjective world of thoughts and feelings which we call mind.  Neural stirrings somehow translate into conscious experience (and vice versa).  SPIRIT:  It seems that our endowment with this vast mind/brain complex necessarily means that we are confronted with larger issues which go beyond our momentary survival, such as:  What is the nature of reality?  What happens when we die? What is our place in the universe?  From where do our values come?  Is there a divine presence larger than ourselves?
Please join us for a set of talks by distinguished speakers whose work transcends the traditional boundaries between the biological, psychological, and spiritual domains.

Neuroscience Seminar Series: Spring 2012
Room 108 Psychology             11:30 to 12:30

January 26th   Howard Casey Cromwell & Michael Geusz: ‘Do Hairless Mice Groom?’

February 2, Joseph Bak-Coleman: "Group size enhances rheotactic behavior in Giant Danio."

February 9, Kimberly Binkley: “Relative reward effect and ultrasonic vocalizations”

February 16,  Dr. Verner Bingman

February 23, Diana Klimas:  "Spatial Probability Integration and Decision Making in Homing Pigeons"

March 1, Jeremy Didion:  "Object perception and visual recognition in a Lake Malawi cichlid, Melanochromis auratus" (JP Scott Fellowship Winner)

March 14th    Dr. Lique Coolen  
Psychology, Univ. Michigan

March 15, David Mankin  ‘A Cross Fostering Analysis of the Effects of PCB on Thyroid Status and Behavioral Development in Rat Pups’

March 22, Ryan Peterson

March 29, Vishal Sharma (JP Scott Fellowship Winner)

April 5, Bill (I have no idea who Bill is)

April 12, Undergraduate Neuroscience research presentations

April 19, UT Psychiatry Conference on Behavior and Mind

April 26, Brain Awareness Event : Brain, Mind and Spirit with Dr. Gregory Quirk

JP SCOTT CENTER students presented research findings at the 2011 Society for Neuroscience Meeting

Jeff Burgdorf (recent graduate of JP Scott Center programs) and Emily Webber in front of Emily's research poster describing neural processes involved in relative reward functions.

Kimberley Binkley discussing her results relating affective signals to decision-making in animals with a fellow neuroscientist.

Ryan Petersen is ready to discuss his findings on theta oscillations and memory with the meeting attendees.

The meeting was held in Washington D.C. A photo of the new monument dedicated to Martin Luther King and his important work.

Further inquiries about the center and our research/graduate programs? 

 Contact Drs. Michael Geusz at mgeusz@bgsu.edu  or Howard Casey Cromwell at hcc@bgsu.edu or 419 372-9408