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

Professor and Chair, Neuroscience Program

Professor, Department of Psychology

Director, Faculty-Student Collaborative Scholarship Program

*Telephones:*	Malicky Center and Ward Hall
Office: (440) 826-2194	Baldwin-Wallace College
Lab: (440) 826-3529	275 Eastland Road
Fax: (440) 826-3577	Berea, OH 44017-2088

email: amickley@bw.edu

Brief Biography

Dr. Mickley is a Professor in the Neuroscience and Psychology Programs 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 50 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 Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH). He is a Fellow in the American Psychological Society and the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and a Charter member of the Society for Neuroscience. At B-W, he is Chair of the Neuroscience Studies Committee and he continues to be an active scientist as he directs the activities of students working in the Neuroscience Laboratory located in the Life and Earth Sciences Building. Dr. Mickley teaches Principles of Psychology, Physiological Psychology and several courses in the Neuroscience curriculum.

Dr. Mickley's Curriculum Vitae - June 2007

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