Greenberg, Neil

Neil Greenberg

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Neil Greenberg received his doctorate in zoology from Rutgers University and then moved to Paul D. MacLeanï¾’s Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior at the National Institute of Mental Health.ï¾ While there he was also appointed a Research Associate at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.ï¾ In 1978, Greenberg joined the faculty of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he is presently a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.ï¾ He is also adjunct Professor of Medicine and of Psychology. Greenbergï¾’s activities in research and curriculum development have been funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.ï¾ In 1994 Greenberg was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His core research involves the roles of the basal forebrain and stress physiology in regulating social behavior.ï¾ Greenbergï¾’s teaching emphasizes ethology and sociobiology, but he also regularly offers the interdisciplinary seminar, “Art and Organism.”ï¾ Recent lectures have been presented at the Sixth International Research Conference on Consciousness, International Ethology Conferences, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, and the International Brain Research Organization.