Fleming , Alison
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Nerobiology and GeneticsPsychology
Contact Information
Email:
Phone:
905-828-3961
Room:
CC 4071
Mailing Address:
3359 Mississauga Road N.
City:
Mississauga
Province:
Ontario
Postal Code:
L5G 4K2

Area of Research
Hormones and Behavior, Behavioral Neuroscience
Profile
I am primarily interested in understanding why mothers want to mother. For 30 years I have studied this question in rats, in humans, and now in monkeys. We are interested in the factors that induce the ‘motivation’ to mother in terms of hormonal factors, sensory factors, the role of different brain mechanisms, the influences of early experiences, and so on. Details of our research questions and methodologies may be found on our website https://utm.utoronto.ca/fleming-mum-lab/
Other
Education:
B.Sc. (School of General Studies, Columbia University)
Ph. D. (Institute of Animal Behavior, Rutgers University)