
Neuroscience & Behavior Graduate Program
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Life Science Laboratories N229
240 Thatcher Road
Amherst, MA 01003
(413) 545-6058
jbergan@umass.edu
www.umass.edu/psychological-brain-sciences/about/directory/joseph-bergan
Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
We seek to understand the principles of how social and defensive stimuli are encoded in the activity of neurons, and how this process can be modulated by behavior state, experience, and neuromodulation.