Rachel A. Kohman

Professor of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience as primary research area.

Special interests: Psychoneuroimmunology, with an emphasis on the neuromechanisms and regulating factors (e.g., sex, age, exercise status) that contribute to cognitive and hippocampal neurogenesis deficits associated with inflammation in a preclinical model.

Education

B.A. in Psychology, Augsburg College
M.S. in Experimental Psychology, Texas Christian University
Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, Texas Christian University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Beckman Institute & Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Toxicology, Rutgers University

Research Interests

Behavioral Neuroscience, Neural-immune interactions, Sex differences, Aging, Neural plasticity, Learning and memory, Exercise