Brenda Anderson

President, University Senate and Professor of Integrative Neuroscience in Psychology
Brenda Anderson is a Professor of Integrative Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology, and a member of the Program in Neuroscience. She has been at Stony Brook University since 1996.

Dr. Anderson has served as the area head for the Integrative Neuroscience PhD program. She teaches introductory statistics, and functional neuroanatomy. She has been a member of the Academy of Teacher Scholars at SBU, received recognition for Educational Effectiveness, and received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

In the senate, Dr. Anderson has served on four standing committees, and as Chair of the Graduate Council. She served as the Institutional Accreditation Liaison Officer for two and a half years. She served as a member of the Pediatrics Study Section for the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.

Dr. Anderson received her PhD at the University of Illinois where she studied how experience affects the brain and behavior. Her expertise lies in behavior analysis, learning and memory, and quantitative neuroanatomy. Using these approaches, and animal models she developed for motor skill learning and psychological stress, she has investigated how experience modifies behavior, neural metabolic capacity and the number of synaptic connections. Her work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health.

 

CONTACT:

Email: Brenda.Anderson@stonybrook.edu
Department of Psychology
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500