Dr. Jeffrey Willner

Title: Assistant Professor

Program: Experimental

Ph.D., M.A.: Dalhousie University

B.A.:  University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Office: 437 Russell Hall

E-mail: jwillner@radford.edu

Phone: (540) 831-5230

Homepage: http://homepage.mac.com/jwillner

Areas of Research Interest:   Neurobiology of learning and memory, spatial behavior and navigation, sex differences

Recent Publications/Presentations:

  • Mackes, J. L., & Willner, J. (in press). NMDA antagonist MK-801 impairs acquisition of place strategies, but not their use. Behavioural Brain Research.

  • Pixley, J. L., Peddy, A. T., & Willner, J. A.  (2004). Contrasting effects of NMDA antagonist MK-801 on acquisition of place and response learning in a plus-maze. Program No. 434.11. 2004 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2004. Online.

  • Willner, J., & Marr, L.D. (1999).  NMDA antagonist MK-801 reduces rats' use of place strategies in problem solving.  Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25,633.

  • Willner, J., & Mackes, J.L. (2001).  NMDA antagonists and place strategies in the rat: Effects of MK-801 given during adaptation or training on strategy use in a T-maze society for Neuroscience Absracts, 2001 (CD-ROM).