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Assistant
Professor
Department of Psychology
Austin Peay State
University
Clarksville, TN 37044
Office: Clement
223E
Phone: (931)221-1045
Fax: (931)221-6267
Email:
hockb@apsu.edu
I joined the faculty
at APSU in 2005 following a one-year visiting position at
Denison University. I also completed a postdoctoral
fellowship at
Case Western Reserve University in the Department of
Genetics. I will be teaching Statistics, Introductory
Psychology, Physiological Psychology and Learning and
Motivation.
Research
Interests
My
research interests are to identify the role of the dorsal
and ventral poles of the hippocampus in learning and memory.
This interest began after the important case studies of H.M. by
Drs. Scoville and Brenda Milner. Briefly, Dr. Scoville removed
the hippocampus from H.M. to reduce epileptic seizures. The
consequences of that surgery reduced the severity and number of
seizures, however, H.M. could no longer retain certain types of
memory (anterograde amnesia), and had amnesia for recent past
events (retrograde amnesia). My interests since that time have
been to identify what types of memory subserve the different
anatomical regions of the hippocampus, more specifically, the
ventral hippocampus.
My second
interest the biological and environmental factors that affect
learning and memory across species. I have studied the
pathological consequences on learning and
memory in different transgenic mouse models of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). This
research has suggested that different pathological events of AD
produce dependent and independent memory deficits. This
research has serious implications for drugs that focus treatment
on one pathological event, such as extracellular plaques, but
may not alleviate the symptoms resulting from neurofibrillary
tangles. Another interest is how do such events, such as
life-long learning or environmental enrichment, affect the
production of pathology and dementia in Alzheimer's disease.
This interest is the result of the
Nun Study at the University of Kentucky.
Publications and
Presentations
Co-authored
Works with Students
Petriello,
M.C., Hock, B.J. and Lamb, B.T. (2003). Learning and memory
impairments between different mouse models of Alzheimer's
disease. The Second Annual Senior Capstone Fair, Case
Western Reserve University
Hock, B.J., Price,
B., & Bunsey, M.D. (1999). The role of the ventral hippocampus
in learning and memory. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol.
29.
Selected
Publications
Hock,
B.J., Lattal, K.M., Shapiro Kulnane, L., Abel, T. & Lamb, B.T.
(In Prep). Pathology dependent and independent memory
deficits in yeast artificial chromosome amyloid precursor
protein transgenic mice.
Hock, Shapiro Kulnane,
L., Lehman, E.J.H., Hock, B.J., Tsuchiya, K.D. & Lamb, B.T.
(2002). Rapid and Efficient Detection of Transgene
Homozygosity by FISH of Mouse Fibroblasts. Mammalian
Genetics, 13(4), 223-226.
Hock, B.J. & Lamb,
B.T. (2001). Transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's Disease.
Trends in Genetics, 17(10): S7-S12.
Hock, B.J. & Bunsey,
M.D. (1998). Differential effects of dorsal and ventral
hippocampal lesions. Journal of Neuroscience, 18(17):
7027-7032. |
