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Neuroscience

Contact: Michael W. Miller, PhD, Chair
Location: 3219 Weiskotten Hall, 766 Irving Ave., Syracuse, NY 13210
Phone: 315 464-4413
Fax: 315 464-7712
Website: Neuroscience Program

This program awards:

  • PhD in Neuroscience
BioChem

The Neuroscience Graduate Program is a multidisciplinary, interdepartmental program divided into three main areas: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience and Development and Regeneration.

Our research relates to many human diseases and disorders including fetal alcohol syndrome, spinal cord injury, degenerative retinal disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Visit the Program site: NEUROSCIENCE

What's the
SUNY Upstate difference?

Youngentob

Steven Youngentob, PhD, Associate Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, is the lead author of a study showing pre-natal alcohol exposure shapes sensory preference, upping the odds of later alcohol use and abuse.

Researchers at SUNY Upstate's Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center have found that because the developing nervous system adapts to whatever mothers eat and drink, young rats exposed to alcohol (ethanol) in the womb drank significantly more alcohol than non exposed rats.

These findings, covered in two related studies, appear in the journal "Behavioral Neuroscience," published by the American Psychological Association (APA). The studies contribute a critical biological piece to the complex puzzle of why teens with a family history of drinking may themselves drink more.