Kenneth A. Campbell

Assistant Professor 
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1982
kencamp@udel.edu 

Phone: Office (302) 831-2924: Fax (302) 831-3645

Office: Room 224M Wolf Hall 

Research Interests

How does the neural representation of a stimulus event change when the event acquires biological significance to the animal? Work in my laboratory uses a combination of neurophysiological, pharmacological, and behavioral approaches to examine mechanisms of sensory processing in the limbic system. Specifically, we use the evoked potential technique to assess processing of auditory events in limbic sites such as the hippocampus, amygdala and limbic cortex in freely-moving rats. We are interested in the effects on limbic auditory evoked potentials of manipulations of arousal, motivation and learning. We are also studying the synaptic pharmacology and plasticity of the pathways that generate and modulate limbic evoked potentials. Health-related applications of this work have involved the use of evoked potentials to investigate the neural basis of cognitive sensory processing deficits that accompany drug abuse, and aging: in the latter case, we have also used evoked potentials to assess the therapeutic potential of putative cognition-enhancing compounds.

Representative Publications

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