Professor
Department of Psychology
Center for Collaborative Neuroscience
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ
fax (732) 445-2263
shors@rutgers.edu

Dr. Tracey J. Shors is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University. Dr Shors joined the Rutgers University faculty in 1997 from Princeton University after graduate and postdoctoral studies at the University of Southern California. With more than 100 publications, Dr. Shors research goals are to understand how memories are formed and stored in the brain. It was recently "rediscovered" that the brain continues to produce new brain cells throughout the lifespan. Dr. Shors studies the function of these new neurons and their role in learning and memory. Her research efforts also address sex differences in the brain and how males and females differ in their ability to learn and respond to stressful experiences. Dr. Shors' laboratory is funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation and National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.

"Saving New Brain Cells", Scientific American, March 2009 [pdf]