About

Larry W. Swanson

Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Biological Sciences, Neurology and Psychology

Contact Information
E-mail: lswanson@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-5892
Office: HNB 428

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Curriculum Vitae
 

Biographical Sketch
Dr. Swanson earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Pomona College and a PhD in neurobiology from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Following postdoctoral work with W.M. Cowan (St. Louis), R. Levi-Montalcini (St. Louis), W. Harkmark (Bergen), and H.G.J.M Kuypers (Rotterdam) he spent 10 years at the Salk Institute in Ja Lolla before moving to the University of Southern California, where he became the Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences in 1995. Dr. Swanson’s laboratory is interested in discovering the identity and organization of brain systems that control the basic drives and emotions, using experimental biological and behavioral approaches in animals. Swanson and his colleagues have characterized a behavior control column in the upper brainstem that controls the basic appetites (hunger and thirst), defensive behaviors (“fight-or-flight” responses), and reproductive behaviors (sexual and parental) assuring survival of the species. This system coordinates behavioral, hormonal, and visceral responses appropriate for specific behaviors and is controlled by reflex inputs and by voluntary signals from the cerebral hemispheres. These results are based on the discovery of several thousand new brain connections with experimental neuroanatomical pathway tracing methods, as well as other molecular, cellular, behavioral, and neuroinformatics approaches. This work has been published in over 250 research articles and a number of books. Dr. Swanson has published comprehensive atlases of the adult rat brain (now in its third edition), and developing rat brain, and has edited two volumes of the standard Handbook of Chemical Neuroanatomy. His 2003 Oxford University Press book, Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan, presented a new 4-component model for the basic wiring diagram of the nervous system, and has been widely acclaimed. In addition, he and his wife Neely have translated three major works by the founder of modern neuroscience, Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Dr. Swanson has been recognized for his research in several ways. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, received a Doctor of Laws degree (honoris causa) from Montreal’s Concordia University in 2003, and was awarded the USC Associates Award for Research in 2005. He has received two separate Senator Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Awards from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, and was among the 100 most cited scientists of the 1980s (one of the two most cited neuroscientists). He has served on the editorial boards of 11 scientific journals and has delivered many prestigious lectures, including the Swammerdam Lecture (Amsterdam, 1988), Olszewski Lecture (Montréal, 1989), McKnight Foundation President’s Lecture (2004), and Barr Lecture (London, Ontario, 2006). Dr. Swanson has served on an NIH Study Section (Neurology B, 1981-5) and the NIMH Board of Scientific Counselors (2006-present), was the Secretary of the Society for Neuroscience (1998-2000), and was President of the Cajal Club (2004-2006). Finally, at USC Dr. Swanson has served on the Faculty Senate Executive Committee (1989-90), was founding coordinator of the Neuroscience Graduate Program (1997-2004), was Dean of Research in the College (1998-2000), was Director of the interdisciplinary NIBS-Neuroscience Program (2001-2004), and was Chair of the Provost’s Neuroscience Advisory Group (2001-2006).
 

Education
B.A. Chemistry, Pomona College, 1/1968
Ph.D. Neurobiology, Washington University, 1/1972
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Tenure Track Appointments
Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 01/01/1995-  
Professor, Departments of Biological Sciences, Psychology and Neurology, University of Southern California, 01/01/1990-  
Senior Member, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 07/01/1980-06/01/1990  
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, La Jolla, California, 01/01/1985-01/01/1990  
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, 01/01/1979-01/01/1980  
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University, St. Louis, 01/01/1976-01/01/1979  
Research Associate, Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, 01/01/1974-01/01/1976  
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anatomy, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, 01/01/1972-01/01/1974  
 

Non-Tenure Track Appointments
Adjunct Professor from Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, 1982-1989  
 

Visiting and Temporary Appointments
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1979  
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Anatomy, University of Bergen, Norway, 1978  
 

PostDoctoral Appointments
Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate, Washington University Department of Biology, 1974-1976  
Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine, 1972-1974  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Since graduate school Dr. Swanson has been interested in clarifying the organization of brain systems that mediate the expression of motivated and emotional behaviors. His experimental research has followed two main paths. First, his group has undertaken a high resolution structural analysis of central nervous system network architecture. This work has generated a new global model of hypothalamic organization, has clarified the organization and neurotransmitter specificity of brainstem reflex inputs to the hypothalamus, and is currently focussing on a new model of cerebral hemisphere inputs to the hypothalamus that mediate the voluntary control of motivated behaviors common to all animals (ingestive, reproductive, and defensive). Beginning in the early 1980s Swanson's group has characterized functionally relevant changes in gene expression patterns restricted to neural networks they have identified. Most of this work involves adrenal and gonadal steroid hormone effects on neuropeptide gene expression patterns in circuits controlling ingestive and reproductive behavior, and in circuits controlling stress responses generally. Two interrelated concepts have emerged—the biochemical switching of information flow through anatomically fixed networks, and the polytransmitter hypothesis (at some stage of the life cycle, all neurons use glutamate or GABA, along with a mixture of other neurotransmitters). Because motivated behavior utilizes the entire nervous system, Swanson has also carried out extensive scholarly research on the fundamental plan of the brain. Swanson has produced detailed atlases of developing and adult rat brain architecture, accompanied by a systematic, fully documented taxonomy of parts. They were the first complete computer graphics atlases of the brain, and have been used to develop databases of spatial neuroanatomical information, as well as prototype three-dimensional, vector-based computer graphics models of the brain.
 

Research Keywords
hunger and thirst, limbic system, motivation, structural neuroscience
 

Funded Research

Contracts and Grants Awarded
A Mature Brain Architecture Knowledge Management Systems (BAMS) (Nat Inst of Neurological Disorders, Stroke), L.W. Swanson, M. Bota, $326,000, 06/01/2009-05/31/2010  
Connections of the limbic system and hypothalamus (Nat Inst of Neurological Disorders, Stroke), L.W. Swanson, $356,114, 06/01/2009-05/31/2010  
NeuArt Neurobiology (NIH/NIMH), L.W. Swanson, Richard Holley Thompson, $21,358, 06/01/2009-03/31/2010  
A Mature Brain Architecture Knowledge Management System (Nat Inst of Neurological Disorders, Stroke), Swanson, Larry W., $423,167, 06/01/2008-05/31/2009  
Connections of the limbic system and hypothalamus (NIH/NINDS), Larry W. Swanson, $356,114, 06/01/2008-05/31/2009  
Connections Of The Limbic System And Hypothalamus (Nat Inst of Neurological Disorders, Stroke (NINDS)), Swanson, Larry W., $356,114, 06/01/2007-05/31/2008  
A Mature Brain Architecture Knowledge Management System (National Institutes of Health), Swanson, Larry W., A. W. Toga, $314,000, 05/01/2007-05/31/2008  
Connections of the limbic system and hypothalamus (NIH/NINDS), Larry W. Swanson, $366,657, 06/01/2006-05/31/2007  
Connections of the limbic system and hypothalamus (NIH/NINDS), L.W. Swanson, $308,750, 06/01/2005-05/31/2006  
A mature brain architecture knowledge management system (NIH/NINDS/NIMH/NIBIB/NLM), L.W. Swanson, A. W. Toga, $346,025, 05/01/2005-04/30/2006  
Connections of the limbic system and hypothalamus (NIH/NINDS), L.W. Swanson, $308,750, 06/01/2004-05/31/2005  
Knowledge management of the neuroscientific literature (NIH/NLM), G.A.P.C Burns, Dr. Burns is a member of the Swanson lab and occupies space in the Swanson lab., $203,125, 06/01/2004-05/31/2005  
A mature brain architecture knowledge management system (NIH/NINDS/NIMH/NIBIB/NLM), L.W. Swanson, A. W. Toga, $346,025, 08/01/2004-04/30/2005  
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
Allen Brain Institute
Brain Architecture Center
Cajal Club
Swanson Lab
 

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations
"A brief history of the cerebral ventricles from antiquity to Thomas Willis", American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Lecture/Seminar, , San Diego, California, AANS - Section on the History of Neurological Surg, Invited, 2008-2009   
"Consciousness and Anatomy of the Forebrain", BASIC Initiative Workshop, Talk/Oral Presentation, , St. Louis MO, Washington University School of Medicine, Invited, 2008-2009   
"Nucelus accumbens "hedonic hot spot": A new strategy for unraveling its neural circuitry.", Distinguished Lecture in Neuroscience, Keynote Lecture, , Boston, Massachusetts, Boston College, Invited, 2008-2009   
"Quest for the basic plan of the nervous system.", Spring Brain Conference 2009, Keynote Lecture, , Palm Springs, CA, Spring Brain Conference, Invited, 2008-2009   
"The hippocampus and an "hedonic hot spot"", CNS Seminar, Lecture/Seminar, , Pasadena, CA, Cal Tech, Invited, 2008-2009   
"Neural Systems Underlying Behavior", PPG Meeting, Lecture/Seminar, , La Jolla, CA, The Salk Institute, Invited, 06/22/2009  
"Cajal and the quest for the nervous system's basic plan", Inaugural Historical Perspectives in Neuroscience Lecture, Lecture/Seminar, , New York, New York, New York University School of Medicine, Invited, 2007-2008   
"Incorporating neuroinformatics into experimental and theoretical analyses of the brain circuits controlling stress", 2008 Workshop on the Neuroendocrinology of Stress, Talk/Oral Presentation, , San Rafael, California, American Neuroendocrine Society, Invited, 2007-2008   
"Introduction— toward a global nervous system parts taxonomy", INCF Workshop, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Stockholm, Sweden, International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facili, Invited, 2007-2008   
"Motivation circuits: past, present, and future", Janelia Farm Seminar, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Ashburn, Virginia, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm, Invited, 2007-2008   
"New Insights Into Brain Organization", Talk/Oral Presentation, , La Jolla, California, Salk Institute, Invited, 2007-2008   
"The Quest for the Basic Wiring Diagram of the Brain", 19th Annual Meeting American Neuropsychiatric Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Savannah, Georgia, The Ohio State University Medical Center and the A, Invited, 2007-2008   
"Brain Control of Eatng Behavior", Winter Confernce on Neural Plasticity, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Morrea, French Polynesia, Invited, 2006-2007   
"Opening Plenary Lecture", The Neurosciences in the XXl Century, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Sao Paulo, Brazil, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Instituto de Ciencias B, Invited, 2006-2007   
"Organization of Forebrain Circuits Controlling Motivated Behaviior", Kaka'ako Colloquium for Molecular and Behavioral Neurosciences and CMB Seminar Series, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Invited, 2006-2007   
"Solving the Brain Nomenclature Problem", Brain Architecture Project, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Invited, 2006-2007   
"The First Realistic Views of the Brain", The International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, Talk/Oral Presentation, , UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ISHN, Invited, 2006-2007   
"The hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus: a model for neuroendocrine, autonomic, and behavioral integration of nerual systems.", XLlX Congresso Nacional de Ciencias Fisiologicas, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Queratro City, Mexico, Instituto de Neurobiologica, UNAM, Invited, 2006-2007   
"The organization of neural systems controlling motivated and emotional behavior.", Murray Bar Lecture, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Ontario, Canada, University of Western Canada Department of Anatomy, 2006-2007   
 

Other Presentations
"Understanding the nervous system's basic wiring diagram: experimental and computational challenges", Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRNS) Program, 2008 PI Meeting, CRNS, Los Angeles, CA (USC), 2007-2008   
 

Publications

Book
Swanson, L.W., Ribak, C., Aramburo, C., Jones, E.G. Larriva Sahd, J.A. (Ed.). (2009). From Development to Degeneration and Regeneration of the Nervous System. New York, New York: Oxford University Press.
 

Book Chapter
Swanson, L.W., Ribak, C., Aramburo, C., Jones, E.G. Larriva Sahd, J.A. (Ed.). (2009). Development of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. In:From Development to Degeneration and Regeneration of the Nervous System. pp. 69-84. New York: Oxford University Press.
Swanson, L. Thoughts on translating Cajal. In. Ove Hagelin Fetschrift.
Horn, J., Swanson, L. (2008). The autonomic nervous system and the hypothalamus. Chapter 47 in: Principles of Neural Science, 5th Edition, E.R. Kandel, J. Schwartz & T. Jessell (eds.). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Swanson, L. (2008). Basic plan of the nervous system. Ch. 2 In: Fundamental Neuroscience, 3rd Editiion, L.R. Squire, D. Berg, F.E. Bloom, S. du Lac, A. Ghosh & N.C. Spitzer (eds.). pp. Chapter Two. Amsterdam: Academic Press.
Swanson, L. (2008). The hypothalamus: an overview of regulatory systems. Ch. 34 in: Fundamental Neuroscience, 3rd Edition, L.R. Squire, D. Berg, F.E. Bloom, S. du Lac, A. Ghosh & N.C. Spitzer (eds.). pp. 795-806. Amsterdam: Academic Press.
Pfaff, D., Kieffer, B., Swanson, L. (2008). Mechanisms for the regulation of state changes in the CNS; an introduction. (Vol. 1129). pp. 1-7. New York, New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Science.
Swanson, L. (2007). Paraventricular nucleus. In: Encyclopedia of Stress, 2nd Edition, G. Fink (ed.). pp. 75-78. San Diego: Academic Press.
Kruger, L., Swanson, L. (2007). 1710: the introduction of experimental nervous system physiology and anatomy by Francois Pourfour du Petit. In: Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in 18th Century Neuroscience, H. Whitaker, C.U.M. Smith, S. Finger (eds.). New York: Springer.
 

Journal Article
Simmons, D., Swanson, L. (2009). Comparing histological data from different brains: sources of error and strategies for minimizing them. Brain Research Review. Vol. 60, pp. 349-367.
Dong, H., Swanson, L., Chen, L., Fanselow, M., Toga, A. (2009). Genomic-anatomic evidence for distinct functional domains in hippocampal field CA1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Vol. 106, pp. 11794-11799.
Motta, S., Goto, M., Gouveia, G., Baldo, M., Canteras, N., Swanson, L. (2009). Dissection the brain's fear system: the hypothalamus is critical for responding in subordinate conspecific intruders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hahn, J., Swanson, L. (2009). Distinct patterns of neural input and outputs of the juxtaparaventricular and suprafornical regions in the lateral hypothalamic area in the male rat. Journal of Comparative Neurology.
Bota, M., Swanson, L. (2009). Collating and curating neuroanatomical nomenclatures: principles and use of the Brain Architecture Knowledge Management System (BAMS). Frontiers in Neuroscience.
Bohland, J., Wu, C., Barbas, H., Bokil, H., Bota, M., Breiter, H., Cline, H., Doyle, J., Freed, P., Greenspan, R., Hererra, D., Hiletag, C., Huang, Z., Jones, A., Hawrylycz, M., Haber, S., Karten, H., Kleinfeld, D., Kotter, R., Lester, H., Lin, J., Mensh, B., Mikula, S., Pansepp, J., Price, J., Safdieh, J., Saper, C., Stillman, B., Schiff, N., Schmahmann, J., Svoboda, K., Swanson, L., Toga, A., Van Essen, D., Watson, J., Mitra, P. (2009). A proposal for a coordinated effort for the determination of brainwide neuroanatomical connectivity in model organisms at a mesoscopic scale. PLoS Computational Biology. Vol. 5, pp. e1000334.
Bota, M., Swanson, L. (2008). BAMS neuroantomical ontology: design and implementation. Frontiers in Neuroscience. Vol. doi:10.3389/neuro.11.002.2008
Cenquizca, L., Swanson, L. (2008). Spatial organization of direct hippocampal field CA1 axonal projections to the rest of the crebral cortex. Brain Research Reivew. Vol. 56, pp. 1-26.
Simmons, D., Swanson, L. (2008). High resolution paraventricular nucleus serial section model constructed within a traditional rat brain atlas. Neuroscience Letters. Vol. 438, pp. 85-89.
Bota, M., Swanson, L. (2007). Online workbenches for neural network connections. Journal of Comparative Neurology/Wiley. Vol. 500(5) 807-814
Swanson, L. (2007). The neuron classification problem. Brain Research Reivew.
Swanson, L. (2007). Quest for the basic plan of nervous system circuitry. Brain Research Review. Vol. 55, pp. 356-372.
Dong, H., Swanson, L. (2006). Projections from the bed nuclei of the stria terminalis, dorsomedial nucleus: implicatons for cerebral hemisphere integration of neuroendocrine, autonomic and drinking responses. Journal of Comparative Neurology/Wiley. Vol. 494, pp. 75-107.
Dong, H., Swanson, L. (2006). Projections from the bed nuclei of the stria terminalis, magnocellular nucleus: implications for cerebral hemisphere regulation of micutrition, defecation and penile erection. Journal of Comparative Neurology/Wiley. Vol. 494, pp. 108-141.
Cenquizca, L., Swanson, L. (2006). An analysis of direct hippocampal cortical field CA1 axonal projections to diencephalons in the rat. Journal of Comparative Neurology/Wiley. Vol. 497, pp. 101-114.
Burns, A. P., Cheng, W., Thompson, R. F., Swanson, L. (2006). The NeuARt II system: a viewing tool for neuroanatomical data based on published neuroanatomical atlases. BMC Bioinformatics. Vol. n/a
Dong, H., Swanson, L. (2006). Projections from bed nuclei of the stria terminalis, anteromedial area: cerebral hemisphere integration of neuroendocrine, autonomic, and behavioral aspects of energy balance. Journal of Comparative Neurology/Wiley. Vol. 494, pp. 142-178.
Swanson, L. (2006). A new module for online manipulation and display of molecular information in the brain architecture managment system. Informatics/Humane. Vol. 4, pp. 275-298.
Choi, G., Dong, H., Murphy, A., Valenzuela, D., Yancopoulos, G., Swanson, L., Anderson, D. (2005). Lhx6 delineates a pathway mediating innate reproductive behaviors frm the amygdala to the hypothalamus. Neuron. Vol. 46, pp. 647-660.
Goto, M., Canteras, N., Burns, A. P., Swanson, L. (2005). Projections from the subfornical region of the lateral hypothalamic area. Journal of Comparative Neurology/Wiley. Vol. 493(3), pp. 412-38.
Bota, M., Dong, H., Swanson, L. (2005). Brain architecture management system. Neuroinformatics/Humane. Vol. 3, pp. 15-48.
Swanson, L., Sanchez-Watts, G., Watts, A. (2005). Comparison of melanin-concentrating hormone and hypocretin/orexin mRNA expression patterns in a new parcelating scheme of the lateral hypothalamic zone. Neuroscience Letters/Elsevier. Vol. 387, pp. 80-84.
Swanson, L. (2005). Anatomy of the soul as reflected in the cerebral hemispheres: neural circuits underlying voluntary control of basic motivated behaviors. Journal of Comparative Neurology/Wiley. Vol. 493, pp. 122-131.
Bota, M., Dong, H., Swanson, L. (2003). From gene networks to brain networks. Nature Neuroscience/Nature Publishing Group. Vol. 8(6), pp. p. 795-799.
 

Monograph
Swanson, L.W., Grant, G., Grillner, S., Hökfelt, T., Johnes, E.G. & Morrison, J. (Ed.). (2007). A Century of Neuroscience Discovery: Reflecting on the Nobel Prize to Golgi and Cajal in 1906. Brain Research Reviews.
 

Other
Swanson, L. Swanson LW, Lufkin T, Colman DR Organization of nervous systems. In: Functional Neuroscience, chapter 2, MJ Zigmond, FE Bloom, SC Landis, JL Roberts, LR Squire (eds.), Academic Press, San Diego, pp.9-37 (1999).
Swanson, L. Swanson LW, Petrovich GD What is the amygdala. Trends in Neurosci. 28:323-331 (1998). .
 

Proceedings
Bota, M., Swanson, L. (2008). 1st INCF Workshop on Neuroanatomical Nomenclature and Taxonomy. Nature Precedings.
 

New Courses Developed
Brain and Emotion, Biological Sciences, 2006-2007   
 

Honors and Awards
Endowed Professorship, Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professorship in Biological Sciences, 1/1/1995-  
Javits Investigator Award in Neuroscience, 2006-  
USC Associates Award For Creativity In Research And Scholarship, 2005  
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, Fellow, 2003  
Doctor of Laws (honoris causa), Concordia University, Montreal, 2003  
Fellow (or Equivalent) of National Society in Discipline, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, 2003  
Institute for Scientific Information, 100 most cited scientific resesarcher from 1980 to 2000, 2001  
USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 1996  
Javits Neuroscience Investigator (MERIT) award, NINDS, 1986-1992  
Institute for Scientific Information, 100 most cited scientific resesarcher from 1980 to 2000, 1991  
McKnight Neuroscience Development Award, 1985-1987  
C.J. Herrick Award (American Association of Anatomists), 1980  
Sloan Research Fellowship Recipient, A.P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship in Neuroscience, 1977-1980  
 

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments
Director, NIBS-Neuroscience Program, 2001-2004  
Founding Coordinator, Neuroscience Graduate Program, 1997-2004  
Dean of Research, 1998-2000  
Director, Research and Graduate Program in Neurobiology, 1993-1997  
 

Committees
Chair, Provost's Neuroscience Advisory Group, 2001-2006  
Member, Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 1992-1993   
 

Review Panels
NIH/NIMH, Blue Ribbon Evaluation Meeting, 2008-2009   
 

Service to the Profession

Committees
Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Class II, Section 3 membership panel, 2007-  
Member, NIMH Board of Scientific Counselors, 2006-  
Member, Society for Neurosciences Publications Committee, 2006-  
 

Conferences Organized
Co-Organizer, Cajal Club, Davis, California, 2009-2010   
Co-Chair, International Symposium of the Cajal Club, Juquilla, Qro, Mexico, 2007-2008   
 

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2007-  
Editorial Board, Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology, 1995-  
Editorial Board Member, Journal of the History of Neurosciences, 1995-  
Editorial Baord Member, Brain Research Reviews, 1993-  
Editorial Board Member, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 1993-  
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Brain Research Bulletin, 1988-  
Editorial Board Member, European Journal of Neuroscience, 1987-  
Member, Board of Co-Editors, Experimental Brain Research, 1984-  
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Comparative Neurology, 1993-2005  
 

Professional Memberships
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, Elected Fellow (2007), 2007-  
Dana Alliance for Brain Initiative, 2005-  
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fellow, 2003, 2003-  
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow (2002), 2002-  
Cajal Club, President (2004 -2006 ), 2002-  
Society for Neuroscience (Secretary, 1998-2000), 1971-  
International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, 1999-2006  
International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience (International Steering Committee), 1999-2006  
International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, 1995-2006  
 

Review Panels
NIH/NIMH, Blue Ribbon Evaluation Meeting, 2008-2009   

Other Service to the Profession
Consultant, Allen Institute for Brain Science; Advisory Council, Human Gene Expression Brain Atlas Project, 08/01/2007-  
Visiting Scholar, Department of Neurobiology, UCLA, 2007-2008   
 
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