Professor/Scientist

Professor of Neuroscience and
Professor of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
4458 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4458
Phone: 979-845-4201

Home Author Speaker Education Consultant Professor/Scientist      11/17/11

 
Research Interests

 brainstem mechanisms of arousal/behavior

 alcohol and opiates

information carrying mechanisms in neurons

behavioral arrest (animal hypnosis, catalepsy)

 learning/memory

 hippocampal functions

chemical signals

electroencephalography, animal & human

human cognition and EEG

pedagogy, especially on-line collaborative learning

 

Research Discoveries
(Range from model membranes to human cognition)

  1. radiation induces an adrenal stress response,

  2. ruminants sleep and also show REM sleep

  3. ethanol selectively acts on certain neurons

  4. ethanol displaces hydrogen-bonded water on membrane lipid

  5. opiates selectively act on certain neurons,

  6. rhythmic activity in the hippocampus reflects a widespread activating influence of the brainstem reticular formation that is not always associated with movement.

  7. freeze behavior ("animal hypnosis") is a brainstem-mediated reflex

  8. neuronal spike trains contain sequential interval codes in certain clusters of impulses (i.e., they can act like a "byte" processor)

  9. acetaldehyde in body fluids is a biochemical marker for estrus and ovulation

  10. sex hormones promote memory consolidation

  11. multiple areas of cerebral cortex become synchronized at various frequencies during memory recall and "eureka" phenomena.

Editorial Board Member,
Science Journals:

Communications in Behavioral Biology (later became Behavioral Biology)**, 1970-1973
     Associate Editor and Board member,

Journal of Electrophysiological Techniques, 1978-1988
    Associate Editor and Board member,

Psychopharmacology,** 1980-1985

Prog. Neuropsychopharm. Biol. Psychiat.,** 1988-2001

Arch. Clin Neuropsychology,** 1992-2003

American Journal of Veterinary Research,** 1995-1999

Texas A&M University Press, 1997 to 1999

 

Distinguished Researcher Award

 

Auburn Distinguished Alumnus

 

Distinguished Member, Distinguished Lecturer

 

Regional President

 

Curriculum Vitae

Manuscript Reviewer for Science Journals
(multiple disciplines)

bulletAlcoholism: Clin. Exp. Res.
bulletAmer. Assoc. Computers in Education
bulletAmerican J. of Physiology
bulletAmerican J. Veterinary Research
bulletAnimal Learning & Behavior
bulletApplied Neuropsychology
bulletArchives Clinical Neuropsychology
bulletBehavioral Biology
bulletBehavioral Brain Research
bulletBehavioral Neuroscience
bulletBehavioral Processes
bulletBiology of Reproduction
bulletBrain Research Bulletin
bulletChemical Senses
bulletCommunications in Behavior Biology
bulletEducational Technology & Society
bulletElectroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiology
bulletEuropean. J. of Physiology
bulletEuropean J. of Pharmacology
bulletEuropean J. Neuroscience
bulletExperimental Neurology
bulletGeneral Pharmacology
bulletInnovate
bulletInernational Journal on E-learning
bulletJ. Chemical Ecology
bulletJ. Comparative & Physiol. Psychology
bulletJ. Comparative Physiology
bulletJ. Educational Technol. & Society
bulletJ. Learning Disabilities
bulletJ. Neurophysiology
bulletLearning & Individual Differences
bulletLife Sciences
bulletNature
bulletNeuropsychology
bulletPharmacology
bulletPharmacol., Biochemistry, & Behavior
bulletPhysiology and Behavior
bulletPhysiological Psychology
bulletPsychopharmacology
bulletPsychobiology
bulletRadiation Research
bulletScience
bulletSociety for Exp. Biology & Medicine
bulletSuccess in Distance Learning
bulletSynapse
bulletThe Technology Source
bulletVeterinary Research Communications

  

In-demand peer reviewer
of scholarly manuscripts
~ 1,000 papers for 45 journals

Editorial Board Member, Education Journals:

The Technology Source, 1999-2003
Innovate, 2004 - present
International Journal of E-learning, 2004 - present
Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2005 - present
 Journal of Educational Technology & Society,     
     2005-present
Journal of Effective Teaching, 2010-present

Educational K-12 Outreach

Project Director for educational outreach grants (NIH, NSF) to middle schools, community colleges, and post-graduate animal-health professionals. Awards in excess of $7.5 million. 

Founder and President, Forum Enterprises

Co-creator of one of the original on-line collaborative learning environments, Forum

Patents  and Related Activities

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#3,513,832 (1970), Respiration and Cardiovascular Monitoring Apparatus (with F. B. Hembrough)

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# 5,721,142 (1998). Body-fluid volatile compounds as biochemical markers and predictors of estrus and ovulation

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Assigned to Texas A&M University. World patents pending in Canada, European Union, Australia, New Zealand (1998).

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FORUM, a new computer conferencing system (Copyrights 1993, version 1.0; 1995, version 2.4; version 3.0, 1998), assigned to Texas A&M Univ.

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Get Smart, an interactive, computer-based instructional assistant, 1998 (shared with Jim Snell)

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MATRIX, an Internet based conferencing system in which users share and annotate documents using their Web browser. Co-developed in 2001, with Jim Snell. One of the original Web 2.0 environments.

 

  

 

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