ROBERT L. ISAACSONEmeritus, Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Area: Behavioral Neuroscience
E-mail: isaacson@binghamton.edu
Phone: 607-777-6764
Office: Science IV, Room 264B
Curriculum vitae (.pdf, 91kb)
Past President, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS), Fellow: American Psychological Society, Fellow: IBNS, Member, American Physiologic Society and Visiting Lecturer for Minority Institution, Member Editorial Boards: Brain Research . Past service on several NIH and NIMH Review Panels and Committees, Chairman and member of several committees for the Society for Neuroscience, Member, NRC Committee for the evaluation of possible hazards of fluoride in drinking water.
Recovery from brain damage, the limbic system, environmental pollutants and neurotoxicity, vascular basis of dementia.
Isaacson, R. L. Non-linear effects in the retention of an avoidance task induced by anabolic steroids. Eur. J. Pharm., 2000, 405, 177-186.
Popovic, M., Biessels, G.-J., Isaacson, R. L., & Gispen, W. H. Learning and memory and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats in a novel spatial/object discrimination task: Behav. Brain Res., 2001, 222, 201-207.
Isaacson, R.L. Unsolved Mysteries: The hippocampus. Behav. Cog. Neurosci. Rev. 2002, 1, 87-107.
Isaacson, R.L., Fahey, J.M., and Al-Mughairbi, F. Environmental conditions unexpectedly affect the long term extent of cell death following an hypoxic episode. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 2003, 993, 179-194.
Isaacson, R.L. (and 11 other authors). Fluoride in the drinking water: A scientific review of EPA standards. National Academy of Sciences: National Research Council, 2006.
Isaacson, R. L. (2008) The Hippocampus. In Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. In Press.
Isaacson, R.L. Comments: Fluoride Position (2007 in preparation)