Bob Stewart
Stewart’s courses include Psychoactive Drugs and Behavior and Neuropharmacology. He has researched salty, sweet and bitter taste development as well as the development and plasticity of taste axon termination patterns.
Bob Stewart
Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Science, Neuroscience Program Head
- Parmly Hall 231
- P: 540-458-8837
- E: stewartb@wlu.edu
Education
- 1994-1996: Postdoctoral Fellow in Membrane Biology, Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University
- 1994: Ph.D. in Neuroscience, University of Virginia
- 1987: B.A. in Psychology, University of Virginia
Research
Research interests include structure and function of the mammalian gustatory system. Research focuses on salty, sweet and bitter taste development. More recent interests include the development and plasticity of taste axon termination patterns in the nucleus of the
solitary tract.
Teaching
- CBSC 110 - Brain and Behavior with Laboratory
- CBSC 111 – Brain and Behavior
- CBSC 150 – Psychoactive Drugs and Behavior
- CBSC 296 – Spring Term Topics in Cognitive and Behavioral Science: The Cannabis Question
- CBSC 312 – Sensation Measurement and Perception
- CBSC 313 - Neural Mechanisms of Motivated Behavior
- CBSC 316 – Neuropharmacology
- NEUR 120 Introduction to Neuroscience