Timothy M. Barth Department of Psychology Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX 76129 email:t.barth@tcu.edu

One of the most important issues facing behavioral neuroscience today is identifying the neural and behavioral mechanisms that mediate recovery after damage to the brain. My research program is aimed at investigating these mechanisms in rats with lesions in the neocortex. There are three areas of study: 1) determination of functional subdivisions of the rat neocortex through the development of neurological tasks that are sensitive to sensory and motor impairments after brain damage; 2) comparison of the recovery patterns and mechanisms of recovery in animals that received brain injury as infants or adults; and 3) investigations of the effects of various drugs on the recovery and maintenance of function following cortical lesions.

Selected Publications:

Barth, T. M., & Stanfield, B. B. (1994). Homotopic, but not heterotopic, fetal cortical transplants can result in functional sparing following neonatal damage to the frontal cortex in rats. Cerebral Cortex, 4, 271-278.

Barth, T. M., Marks, B. B., & Young, L. S. (1994). Tactile extinction following unilateral lesions in the rat anteromedial cortex: Effects of a contralateral cue. Behavioral Neuroscience, 108, 4, 1-5.