Education
B.A., Harvard University, 1971
Ph.D., City University of New York, 1976
Postdoc, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Research Interests
Developmental Psychopharmacology
Our work centers on the early development of the brain, and the way that adverse events (alcohol, drugs, stress) during pregnancy or in the early stages of life may alter this normal development leading to behavioral dysfunctions
Multimedia Neuroscience Education Project
NSF-funded website for learning about synaptic transmission and neurotransmitters
Courses Taught
PSYC 101: Introductory Psychology (team taught)
NSCI 201: Introduction to Neuroscience
PSYC 201: Experimentation and Statistics
INTR 223: Image, Imaging and Imagination: the Brain and visual Art
PSYC 312: Drugs and Behavior
PSYC 317T: Nature via Nurture: Topics in Developmental Psychobiology (tutorial)
NSCI 401: Senior Seminar in Neuroscience
Students doing research in my lab
Shivon Robinson
Kathleen Palmer
Sa-kiera Hudson
Selected Publications
- Zimmerberg, B., Martinez, A.R, Skudder, C.M., Killien, E.Y., Robinson, S.A. & Brunelli, S.A. (2010). Effects of gestational allopregnanolone administration in rats bred for high affective behavior. Physiology and Behavior, 99, 212-217.
- Zimmerberg, B., Foote, H.E. & Van Kempen, T.A.(2009). Olfactory association learning and brain-derived neurotrophic factor in an animal model of early deprivation. Developmental Psychobiology, 51, 33-344.
- Frye, C.A., Sumida, K., Brunelli, S.A., & Zimmerberg, B. (2006) Rats bred for high anxiety responses neonatally demonstrate increases in lordosis pacing behavior and midbrain 3a5a-THP levels as adults. Behavioral Neuroscience, 120, 281-9.
- Brunelli, S.A., Nie, R., Whipple, C., Winiger, V., Hofer, M.A. & Zimmerberg, B. (2006) Selective breeding for infant ultrasonic vocalizations affects play behavior in juvenile rats. Physiology and Behavior, 87, 527-36.
- Bamat, N.A., Brunelli, S.A., Kron, M.M., Schulte, A.R. & Zimmerberg, B. (2005). Behavioral effects of toluene in rats selectively bred for infantile vocalization rate. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 27, 883-890.
- Eseh, R. & Zimmerberg, B. (2005). Age-dependent effects of gestational and lactational iron deficiency on anxiety behavior in rats. Behavioral Brain Research, 164, 214-221.
- Zimmerberg, B., Brunelli, S.A., Fluty, A.J., & Frye, C.E. (2005). Differences in affective behaviors and hippocampal allopregnanolone levels in adult rats of lines selectively bred for infantile vocalizations. Behavioral Brain Research, 159, 301-311.
- Zimmerberg, B. & Kajunski, E.W. (2004). Sexually-dimorphic effects of neonatal allopregnanolone on the development of anxiety behavior after early deprivation. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 78, 465-471.
- Zimmerberg,B., Kim JH, Davidson AN, Rosenthal AJ. (2003) Early Deprivation alters the vocalization behavior of neonates directing maternal attention in a rat model of child neglect.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1008, 309-313.
- Zimmerberg, B., *Rosenthal, A.J. & *Stark, A.C. (2003). Neonatal social isolation alters both maternal and pup behaviors in rats. Developmental Psychobiology, 42, 52-63.
* Student Collaborators
