Summary
Fourth year Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience graduate student
President, Students in Neuroscience
Caroline Neely research focuses on cognition and human behavior in Dr. Jane Flinn’s Alzheimer’s disease and learning impairment laboratory.
Information
Webpage: psychology.gmu.edu/people/cneely3 LinkedIn page
Email: cneely3@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.5455
Office Hours: Mondays 10:30 – 11:30 AM; appointment preferred
Address: David King Hall 2024
Fairfax, Va. 22030
About
Since joining the Mason community, Caroline has worked in the field of animal behavior in order to understand the biological and cellular underpinnings of maladaptive associative learning. Currently, her work focuses on fear conditioning and extinction, two forms of associative learning that can be impaired in both post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
Caroline serves as a mentor for undergraduate students enrolled in NEUR 395/405. As a former adjunct faculty member of GMU’s Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, she conducted NIDA-sponsored research that assessed the relationship among crime, commercial/residential density, and community health in Baltimore, MD. Caroline also served as an affiliate of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences.
Education
BA Psychology, Neuroscience, Spanish – Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 2013
MA Psychology/Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience – George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2015
Current Research
Traumatic brain injury; fear conditioning and extinction; NMDAR subunit expression; animal models of PTSD; hippocampus, basolateral amygdaloid complex, ...
