William T. Greenough
| William T. Greenough | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 11, 1944 Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. |
| Died | December 8, 2013 (aged 69) Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. |
| Residence | U.S.A. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Systems Neuroscience |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
William Tallant Greenough (October 11, 1944 – December 18, 2013) was a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A pioneer in studies of neural development and brain plasticity, Greenough studied learning and memory and the brain's responses to environmental enrichment, exercise, injury, and aging. Greenough is regarded as the predominant researcher to have demonstrated that the brain continues to form new synaptic connections between nerve cells throughout life, responding to environmental enrichment and learning, and that this mechanism is fundamental to learning and memory storage in the brain. As a result of this work, Greenough has been described as "one of the towering figures in neuroscience".
William Greenough was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 10, 1944. He later lived in Gearhart, Oregon and Seaside, Oregon.
In 1964, at age 19, he completed an undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Oregon. He earned his master's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1966 and his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1969. His thesis title was Pharmacological and Biochemical Studies on Learning Performance as a Function of Post-Weaning Environment in Rats.
Greenough then joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor, becoming a full professor in 1978. He chaired the psychology committee that helped to form the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Illinois and became one of the Beckman Institute's first two half-time associate directors in the fall of 1987. He served as director of the Beckman Institute's Neuroscience Program from 1997-2000.
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