Biography:
 | Recent work has focused on how neurons of the cerebral cortex change in response to various factors including hormones, experience, drugs, neurotrophins, and injury, and how these changes are related to behaviour.
Bryan Kolb has published 5 books, including two textbooks with Ian Whishaw (Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, Sixth Edition; Introduction to Brain and Behavior, Third Edition), and roughly 350 articles and chapters. Kolb was awarded a Killam Fellowship from the Canada Council and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a former President of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science and former President of the Experimental Division of the Canadian Psychological Association. He is recipient of the Hebb from both CSBBCS and CPA. He is currently a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's program on Experience Based Brain Development. |
Recent
Publications: | Nemati, F., & Kolb, B. (2011). FGF-2 induces behavioral recovery after early adolescent injury to the motor cortex of rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 225, 184-191.
Kolb, B., Muhammad, A., & Gibb, R. (2011) Searching for factors underlying cerebral plasticity in the normal and injured brain. Journal of Communication Disorders, 44, 503-514.
Mychasiuk, R., Gibb, R., & Kolb, B. (2011). Prenatal stress produces sexually dimorphic and regionally-specific changes in gene expression in hippocampus and frontal cortex of developing rat offspring. Developmental Neuroscience, in press.
Mychasiuk, R., Gibb, R., & Kolb, B. (2011). Prenatal Bystander Stress Induces Neuroanatomical Changes in the Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus of Developing Rat Offspring. Brain Research, 1412, 55-62.
Muhammad, A. & Kolb, B. (2011). Mild prenatal stress modulated behaviour and neuronal spine density without affecting amphetamine sensitization. Developmental Neuroscience, 33(2):85-89.
Muhammad, A., Hossain, S., Pellis, S.M., & Kolb, B. (2011). Tactile stimulation during development attenuates amphetamine sensitization and structurally reorganizes prefrontal cortex and striatum in a sex-dependent manner. Behavioral Neuroscience, 125, 161-174. Kolb, B., & Gibb, R. (2011). Brain plasticity and behavior in the developing brain. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, in press. Kolb, B. & Whishaw, I.Q. (2010) Introduction to Brain and Behavior. Third Edition. New York: Freeman-Worth. Bell, H. C., Pellis, S. M., & Kolb, B. (2010). Juvenile peer play experience and the development of the orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal cortex. Behavioural Brain Research, 207, 7-13.
Kolb, B., Gibb, R., & Teskey, C. (2010). Factors influencing cerebral plasticity in the normal and injured brain. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, 204-216. Kolb, B. & Whishaw, I.Q. (2009) Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, 6th Edition. New York: Freeman-Worth. |
