 Derek Hamilton
Associate
Professor
Email: dahamilt@unm.edu
Office: Logan 166
Phone: N/A
Degree Received
Ph.D.,
University of New Mexico, 2003
Research
Interests
Learning
and memory, brain plasticity, and
pharmacology.
I
utilize basic behavioral, pharmacological,
anatomical, physiological, and computational methods to investigate the
psychological and neurobiological foundations of learning, memory, and
behavior. My work includes investigations
in humans and rats with an
emphasis on spatial (place) learning/navigation and nonspatial
associative learning. Recent work has utilized a variety of
neuroimaging methods (in humans) and analysis of experience-dependent
dendritic modification (in rats) as they relate to various forms of
experience, learning, and brain damage. Two additional major components
of my current research efforts are 1) developing biologically plausible
computational models of processes involved in spatial and nonspatial
associative learning and 2) investigating the effects of chronic drug
exposure on learning, memory, behavior, and brain plasticity.
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