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Douglas L. Rosene Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Dr. Douglas Rosene is Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine. He received his B.A. Psychology from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in Psychology and Neurobiology from the University of Rochester in 1975. He completed a three-year postdoctoral study at Harvard Medical School in Neuroanatomy. He is an expert on the neuroanatomy of the temporal lobe limbic system and has published extensively in this area.

Dr. Rosene is Principal Investigator of several NIH Research Grants studying the neural bases of cognitive decline in the aged monkey and an NSF Research Grant studying the neuroanatomical correlates and validity of diffusion MRI neuroimaging. He has also published extensively on neurohistological and histochemical methodology. He is co-director for the Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology with Dr. Mark Moss.

Dr. Rosene is Course Manager for the graduate level neuroscience course Systems Neurobiology and is an instructor in the Medical Neuroscience course. He also teaches advanced seminar courses in neurosciences including the Neurobiology of Aging and Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.