Behavioural Neuroscience

Researchers in this group are broadly interested in the neural bases of behaviour, including the link between genes, hormones and neural functioning. The types of behaviour pattern studied include simple locomotor movements, action responses, reward, memory, social behaviour and social cognition. The research has implications for numerous human disorders, including dyslexia, schizophrenia, addiction, and AD/HD.

Group Members

	Dr James Ainge RCUK Fellow Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory	jaa7@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 462057
	Dr Daniela Balslev Lecturer	db87@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 462097
	Dr Eric Bowman Lecturer Neuroscience of reward, motivation and adaptive behaviour	emb@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 462093
	Dr Gillian Brown Reader Sex differences in behavioural development and the evolution of behaviour	grb4@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463041
	Prof Verity Brown Royal Society Industrial Fellow and Professor Neural basis of attention and response selection in the rat	vjb@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 462072
	Dr Sue Healy Reader Animal cognition in the wild	sdh11@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 462065
	Dr Bill Heitler Reader Simple Systems Neurobiology and Modelling	wjh@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463460/3490
	Prof Lindsey Kent Professor of Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Investigation of Child Psychiatric Disorders	lsk8@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463567
	Dr Mike Oram Lecturer From neuronal codes to perception and memory	mwo@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 462062
	Dr Thomas Otto Lecturer	to7@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 462091
	Dr Silvia Paracchini Royal Society University Research Fellow Genetics and epidemiology of neurodevelopmental disorders and cognitive traits	sp58@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463542
	Prof David Perrett Professor Face Perception	dp@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 462066
	Dr Stefan Pulver Lecturer Neural control of locomotion in Drosophila	sp96@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: +44 (0) 1334 463503
	Prof Keith Sillar Professor of Neuroscience Neural control and development of vertebrate locomotion	kts1@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463503
	Dr V Anne Smith Senior Lecturer Complex biological networks	vas1@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 463368
	Dr Karen Spencer Lecturer Hormones, behaviour and development	kas21@st-andrews.ac.uk tel: 01334 46 2096