Neuroscientist to Lecture on Experience, Aging and the Brain
[21 November 2003 - University of California Davis] On Monday, Dec. 1 and Tuesday, Dec. 2, William Greenough, a University of Illinois neuroscientist whose work has shown how learning and experience, including physical exercise, change the brain, will give two lectures on campus. On Monday, Dec. 1, Greenough will discuss 'How Experience Influences the Developing, Adult and Aging Brain,' and on Tuesday, Dec 2, 'Applied Plasticity: Roles of Plastic Brain Phenomena in Clinical Pathology.' Both public lectures will begin at 4:10 p.m. in the AGR Hall, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. Greenough is the Swanlund Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Structural Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His visit to UC Davis is sponsored by the Division of Biological Sciences endowed Tracey and Ruth Storer Lectureship in the Life Sciences.