The Behavioral Neuroscience Program at the University at Buffalo Department of Psychology offers individualized programs, flexible admissions, fellowships and assistantships, excellent placement of graduates, and is affiliated with university-wide neuroscience programs. Please continue to browse our page and links, and appreciate the diversity of research interests and opportunities that await you in the Behavioral Neuroscience Program. The Program The Behavioral Neuroscience program, within the Psychology Department of the State University of New York at Buffalo, emphasizes the development of basic research skills and individualized programs of study.
Students participate actively in research as junior colleagues.
The small size of the program encourages the development of close professional and personal ties among students and faculty. Students select a wide variety of courses from the Psychology Department and the university-wide neuroscience community. Behavioral Neuroscience faculty collaborate actively with faculty in several other departments, including Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Biology, Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Physiology. The research emphasis in the doctoral program in Behavioral Neuroscience is on the neural, endocrine, and molecular bases of behavior. The main areas of research conducted by the Behavioral Neuroscience faculty include the brain mechanisms of reward and of sexual behavior, psychobiology of maternal behavior and of analgesia, neuroendocrinology of puberty and of seasonal hormonal changes, molecular, hormonal, and behavioral effects of cocaine and antidepressants, and EEG correlates of human brain lateralization and dysfunction.