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Derek Hamilton, Associate Professor, Area Head Cognition, Brain & Behavior

Office Location: Logan Hall Rm 166
Phone: (505) 277-8897
Email: dahamilt@unm.edu
Personal Website: http://www.unm.edu/~dahamilt
Lab Website: http://www.hamiltonlab.weebly.com
Curriculum Vitae and Publications

Research Area

Cognition, Brain and Behavior

Research Interests

• Neurobiology of learning and memory
• Spatial navigation
• Social behavior
• Synapse placticity and structural plasticity
• Pharmacology
• Effects of fetal ethanol exposure
• Functional neuroimaging and functional network connectivity

Selected Publications

• Rice, J.P., Suggs, L.E., Candelaria-Cook, F.T., Akers, K.G. Lusk, A.V., Parker, M., Savage, D.D., & Hamilton, D.A. (2012). Effects of exposure to moderate levels of ethanol during prenatal brain development on dendritic length, branching, and spine density in the nucleus accumbens and dorsal striatum of adult rats. Alcohol, 46, 577-584.

• Knierim, J.J., & Hamilton, D.A. (2011). Framing spatial cognition: Neural representations of proximal and distal reference frames and their role in navigation. Physiological Reviews, 91, 1245-1279.

• Hamilton, D.A., Akers, K.G., Rice, J.P., Johnson, T.E., Candelaria-Cook, F.T., Maes, L.I., Rosenberg, M., Valenzuela, C.F., & Savage, D.D. (2010). Prenatal exposure to moderate levels of ethanol alters social behavior in adult rats: Relationship to structural plasticity and immediate early gene expression in frontal cortex. Behavioural Brain Research, 207, 290-304.

• Hamilton, D.A., Johnson, T.E., Redhead, E.S., & Verney, S.P. (2009). Control of human and rodent navigation by room and apparatus cues. Behavioural Processes, 81, 154-169.

• Hamilton, D.A., Akers, K.G., Johnson, T.E., Rice, J.P., Candelaria, F.T., Sutherland, R.J., Weisend, M.P., & Redhead, E.S. (2008). The relative influence of place and direction in the Morris water task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34, 31-53.

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