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Jan Thornton is Professor of Neuroscience and Biology at Oberlin, where she has taught since 1990. She has a PhD in physiological psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has done research at Rockefeller University, Rutgers-Newark, the Oregon Health Sciences University, and the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center. She has an active research program that includes undergraduates as researchers and has more than 30 original articles in scientific journals. She is on the national executive committee for the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, was selected as part of Project Kaleidoscope’s Faculty for the 21st Century, and was honored with Oberlin College’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Her research focuses on neuroendocrinology; how hormones exert their effects on the brain. To this end she uses a variety of techniques from behavioral analysis to molecular biological techniques. Currently her lab is examining the effects of reproductive hormones on spatial memory, Alzheimer's Disease, and Schizophrenia. At Oberlin, she teaches courses on hormones and the brain, cell and molecular biology, and behavioral neuroscience, as well as a popular first-year seminar on "Science and the Mind." Grinnell Faculty
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