G. Andrew Mickley, Jr., Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Neuroscience Program

Professor, Department of Psychology

Telephones:
Malicky Center and Life and Earth Sciences Building

Office: (440) 826-2194 Baldwin-Wallace College

Lab: (440) 826-3529 275 Eastland Road

Fax: (440) 826-3577

Berea, OH 44017-2088

Brief Biography

Dr. G. Andrew Mickley is a Professor in the Psychology Department and Professor and Chair of the Neuroscience Program at Baldwin-Wallace College. He received his undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and his M.A. and Ph.D degrees in Physiological Psychology from the University of Virginia. He came to B-W in 1993 after a 21-year career in the United States Air Force. Dr. Mickley retired from the Air Force with the rank of Lt. Colonel. While working in the Department of Defense, Dr. Mickley did extensive research in the brain sciences. He has published over 70 journal articles and books describing his studies on learning and memory, brain plasticity, recovery from brain damage, neurotoxicology, neuropharmacology, obesity and neural transplantation. Dr. Mickley's current research is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). He has had previous grants from the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation. He is a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science, The Midwestern Psychological Association, and the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society. He is a Charter member of the Society for Neuroscience. Dr. Mickley remains an active scientist as he directs the activities of students working in the newly renovated Neuroscience Laboratory located in the Life and Earth Sciences Building. Dr. Mickley teaches Principles of Neuroscience, Principles of Psychology, Physiological Psychology, Neuropharmacology, and several other courses in the Neuroscience and Psychology curricula. Dr. Mickley is also the executive director of the Nu Rho Psi, the National Neuroscience Honor Society (see: http://www.nurhopsi.org/drupal/ ). Dr. Mickley was selected as the 2008 Ohio Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He received the Baldwin-Wallace College’s Strosacker Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009. He also won the Baldwin-Wallace College Gigax Award for excellence in research and other scholarly activities.

Dr. Mickley's Curriculum Vitae - July 2010

Recent Publications:

Detection of novelty by perinatal rats

Ketamine blocks a taste-mediated conditioned motor response in perinatal rats

Ketamine blocks a taste recognition memory in fetal rats

Ketamine blocks a conditioned taste aversion in neonatal rats

Paradoxical effects of ketamine on the memory of fetuses of different ages

Simple behavioral methods to assess the effect of drugs or toxins on sensory experience

Mentoring undergraduate students in neuroscience research: A model system at Baldwin-Wallace College

Repeated exposures to gustatory stimuli produce habituation or positive contrast effects in perinatal rats

Dynamic processing of taste aversion extinction in the brain

Long-term age-dependent behavioral changes following a single episode of fetal N-methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) receptor blockade