COURSES TAUGHT REGULARLY:
Introduction to Psychology; Undergraduate and Graduate
Neuroscience;
Intermediate and Advanced Statistical Analysis;
Biofeedback;
Psychopharmacology; Neuropsycology;
Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychoneuroimmunology.
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
Event-Related Potential correlates of cognition, e.g. preparation
leading to Correct vs Incorrect Behavior, Decision making,
vigilance and pain perception; Electrical brain activity during
changes in states of consciousness and cognition; Central nervous
system and learning - memory; Behavioral and neural mechanisms of
learning in biofeedback; Procedures which promote Biofeedback
learning; Magneticencephalogram recording and analysis techniques.
RESEARCH SKILLS
Small animal neurosurgery, e.g., rat, cat, monkey;
neuro-histological techniques; electrical programming;
experimental design; biofeedback training; intracranial chemical
and electrical stimulation; fabrication of electrical micro
curcuits; electrical brain recording in humans and non-humans,
especially the computer averaged Event- Related Potential;
Fortran, Basic, Assembly Language computer programming; Computer
statistical analysis.
MASTER OF ARTS THESIS
Aversive tegmental brain stimulation as the UCS in conditioned
suppression.
Ph.D. DISSERTATION
The effects of limbic lesions on a free operant avoidance
schedule in rats.
PUBLICATIONS
Tegmental brain stimulation as the UCS in conditioned response
suppression, Psychon. Sci., vol. II, p. 97, 1968. (M.A. thesis).
Septal lesions enhance delay of responding on a free operant-avoidance, Psychon. Sci., vol. 16, p. 10, 1969. (part of Ph.D. dissertation).
Angiotensin injected into the Neostriatum after learning disrupts retention performance. Science, vol. 196, p. 87, 1977.
ERPs associated with decisions based on slowly increasing warm and painful stimuli. Electroenceph Clin. Neurophysiol., 1984, 58: 343-350.
Fronto-central DC-potential shifts predicting behavior with or without a motor task. Electroenceph Clin. Neurophysiol., 1992, 83, 378-388.
The Effect of Engaging in Mental Tasks on the Severity of Motion Sickness and Gastric Myoelectric Activity in Humans (1994). In J. Z. Chen and R. W. McCallum (Eds.) Electrogastrography: Principles and Applications (pp. 219-225). New York:Raven Press Ltd.
Brain activity before and during successful frontalis EMG biofeedback training using 3 feedback modes, Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 1999, 24: 143.
CONVENTION PAPERS
The limbic lesions and their effects on interresponse time
distribution associated with DRL performance, presented at
Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, 1966.
The effects of limbic lesions on a free operant avoidance schedule in rats, presented at Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, 1969.
Transfer of learning and memory by RNA extracts, presented to Western Psychological Association Convention, 1972.
Intracranial injection of Angiotensin III disrupts active avoidance learning, presented at the American Psychological Association, Toronto, 1984.
The interaction of EMG, SLC, and skin temperature during biofeedback training for a variety of complaints in a community mental health clinic, presented at Biofeedback Society of America, San Francisco, 1986.
Variability of P3 amplitude in depressed versus non-depressed subjects, presented at the VIII International Conference on Event-Related Potentials of the Brain (EPIC VIII), Stanford, CA. June 24, 1986.
Brain wave responses to subliminal and supraliminal stimuli, presented at the 24th annual meeting of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Los Angeles, CA. March 25, 1993.
The effect of slowly increasing warm and painful stimuli on Event-Related Potentials, presented at the 73rd annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Phoenix, AZ., April, 1993.
Slow negative potentials preceding arithmetic computations as predictors of behavior, presented at the 74th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Kona, Hawaii, May, 1994.
Autokinesis and P3: A critique of outflow theory, presented at the 76th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, San Jose, CA., April, 1996.
EEG measures of differential brain activity: Before, during, and after the perception of apparent as opposed to actual movement, presented at the 36th annual convention of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vancouver, Canada, October, 1996.
ERPs before and during correct versus incorrect multiplication problem solving, presented at the 77th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Seattle, WA, April, 1997.
ERPs preceding and during correct versus incorrect spatial judgements, presented at the 77th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Seattle, WA, April, 1997.
ERPs associated with successful EMG biofeedback and 3 feedback modes, presented at the 77th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Seattle, WA, April, 1997.
ERPs preceding and during correct spatial relationship judgements, presented at the 79th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Irvine, CA, April, 1999.
ERPs preceding correct vs incorrect spatial judgements over three hours, presented at the 79th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Irvine, CA, April, 1999.
Predictive value of ERPs for correct spatial judgements: Gender analysis, presented at the 79th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Irvine, CA, April, 1999.
Brain activity before and during successful frontalis EMG biofeedback training using 3 feedback modes, presented at the 30th annual convention of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Vancouver, BC, March, 1999.
Analysis of the event-related potential before, during encoding and retrieval, presented at the 80th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR, April, 2000.
ERP analysis of encoding and retrieval of words presented auditorily, presented at the 81st annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Maui, HI, May, 2001.
Gender differences of event-related potentials during mental rotation task, presented at the 84th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Phoenix, AZ, April, 2004.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Scalp distribution of slow ERP waves during painful stimuli.
Cortical Slow wave distribution before, during and after
Biofeedback EMG decrease.
Cortical Slow wave distribution
before, during and after correct vs incorrect cognitive
problem solving.
EEG/ERP and MEG/ERF before, during and after solution of perceptual or multiplication
Problems.
RECENT CONFERENCES ATTENDED
IVth World Congress on Pain, Seattle, 1984.
Neurological Foundations of Behavior, Oakland, 1984.
Biofeedback Society of America, San Francisco, 1986.
Periodic attendance at the conferences of the Assoc. for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
Eighth International Conference on Event-Related Potentials of the Brain (EPIC VIII). June 22-28, 1986.
Western Psychological Association Convention, 1981-present
10th annual Rotman Research Institute Conference: The Frontal Lobes, Toronto, March 19 - 24, 2000.
FUNDED SABBATICAL LEAVES
Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; Dr. Aryeh Routtenberg.
1975-1976, Visiting Research Scholar.
University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Dr. Jan Gybels, 1982-1983, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medicine.
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Dr. Prof. Lüder
Deecke, 1990-1991, 1997-1998, Visiting Professor, Faculty of
Medicine, Neurological Clinic.
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