Michela Gallagher
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience
Vice Provost of Academic Affairs
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N Charles St.
216B Ames Hall
Baltimore, MD 21218-2686
michela@jhu.edu
(410) 516-0167
Curriculum Vitae PDF
Gallagher Lab Website
Neurogenetics and Behavior Center
My research program is broadly based in the area of Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience. In addition to studies of psychological functions involving learning, memory and emotion, our work uses a wide range of approaches that include anatomical methods, methods for recording neurons to determine their encoding properties while animals perform complex tasks, and cellular/molecular/genetic methods to study mechanisms of signaling and plasticity. A specific emphasis in one area of our work is on neurocognitive aging; our research helped shift the field from studies of neurodegeneration as a cause for memory loss to uncovering functional mechanisms for impairment. I also head the Neurogenetics and Behavior Center at Johns Hopkins University, an innovative resource for assessment of mice at high levels of cognitive/affective function with targeted genetic manipulations.
Courses Taught:
- 200.372 Psychology of Aging (Gallagher)
- 200.821 Research Seminar in Behavioral Neuroscience (Ball, Gallagher, Holland, and Fortune)
- Independant Research in Neuroscience and Psychology
- 200.804 Topics in Neurocognitive Aging
- 200.825 Research Seminar: Psychobiology (Ball, Gallagher, Holland, and Fortune)
- 200.650 Proseminar in Biopsychology (Ball, Gallagher, Holland, and Fortune)
- 200.648 Aging, Cognition, and Neurodegenerative Disorders (Albert, Gallagher)
- 200. Readings & Current Research in Cognitive Aging (Haberman)
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