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Biographical Sketch
I attended Northeastern University in Boston, initially in the Engineering program and
then in the Psychology degree program. The years I spent in Engineering taught me the
importance of understanding basic science and engineering for whatever I might do in a
career, and have been invaluable in my subsequent career in Neuroscience. The new field
of Neuroscience, which was then called Physiological Psychology, proved to be the right
field for my interests, and I left Engineering for Psychology. I was fortunate to be able to
work in an active research lab at Northeastern at a time when formal Honours programs
involving lab research were yet to be developed. After graduating I moved to Montreal
and worked in Dalbir Bindra's lab at McGill University, doing research on the brain
mechanisms of learning. I subsequently completed the MSc and PhD programs in
Psychology at McGill under Bindra's supervision, and moved to the University of British
Columbia Faculty of Medicine for postdoctoral training with Juhn Wada. During that
time I worked with rats and primates and learned research techniques involved in the
study of a form of brain plasticity known as kindling, which is epileptic in nature. After
completion of the postdoctoral training I moved to the University of Western Ontario,
where I have been ever since, apart from sabbatical and other periods spent in other
labs. I am currently Professor of Psychology and a member of the Graduate Program in
Neuroscience, and I supervise students in both the Psychology and Neuroscience
programs.
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