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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1996 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1992 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William T. Greenough was affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research focused primarily on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular concentration in genetics. The main topics addressed in their work involved genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

The scholar's publication record included work appearing in the venue OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University. Among recent papers, one titled "Neuropeptide Release Is Impaired in a Mouse Model of Fragile X Mental Retardation Syndrome" was published in 2020 within the same venue.

Frequent collaborators in their research projects comprised:

  • Suresh P. Annangudi
  • Agatha E. Luszpak
  • Soong Ho Kim
  • Shifang Ren
  • Nathan G. Hatcher

Throughout their career, William T. Greenough received several distinguished recognitions, including:

  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 1998
  • William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 1996
  • Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in both 1985 and 1993
  • Membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1992

Best Publications

  • Experience and brain development.

    William T. Greenough;James E. Black;Christopher S. Wallace

  • Learning causes synaptogenesis, whereas motor activity causes angiogenesis, in cerebellar cortex of adult rats.

    James E. Black;Krystyna R. Isaacs;Brenda J. Anderson;Adriana A. Alcantara

  • Abnormal dendritic spines in fragile X knockout mice: maturation and pruning deficits.

    Thomas A. Comery;Jennifer B. Harris;Patrick J. Willems;Ben A. Oostra

  • Abnormal dendritic spine characteristics in the temporal and visual cortices of patients with fragile-X syndrome: a quantitative examination

    Scott A. Irwin;Biraju Patel;Madhuri Idupulapati;Jennifer B. Harris

  • Prolonged exercise induces angiogenesis and increases cerebral blood volume in primary motor cortex of the rat.

    R.A Swain;A.B Harris;E.C Wiener;M.V Dutka

  • Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein is Translated near Synapses in Response to Neurotransmitter Activation

    Ivan Jeanne Weiler;Scott A. Irwin;Anna Y. Klintsova;Corinne M. Spencer

  • Environmental Influences on Cognitive and Brain Plasticity During Aging

    Arthur F. Kramer;Louis Bherer;Stanley J. Colcombe;Willie Dong

  • Synaptogenesis and Fos expression in the motor cortex of the adult rat after motor skill learning.

    Jeffrey A. Kleim;Erich Lussnig;Edward R. Schwarz;Thomas A. Comery

  • Exercise, experience and the aging brain.

    James D Churchill;Roberto Galvez;Stanley Colcombe;Rodney A Swain

  • Transient and enduring morphological correlates of synaptic activity and efficacy change in the rat hippocampal slice.

    Fen Lei F. Chang;William T. Greenough

  • Dendritic Spine Structural Anomalies in Fragile-X Mental Retardation Syndrome

    Scott A. Irwin;Roberto Galvez;William T. Greenough

  • Pattern of dendritic branching in occipital cortex of rats reared in complex environments.

    William T. Greenough;Fred R. Volkmar

  • Rehabilitation of persons with traumatic brain injury

    K. T. Ragnarsson;W. R. Clarke;J. R. Daling;S. L. Garber

  • Rearing complexity affects branching of dendrites in the visual cortex of the rat.

    Fred R. Volkmar;William T. Greenough

  • From mRNP trafficking to spine dysmorphogenesis: the roots of fragile X syndrome

    Claudia Bagni;William T. Greenough

  • Differential rearing effects on rat visual cortex synapses. I. Synaptic and neuronal density and synapses per neuron.

    Anita M. Turner;William T. Greenough

  • The use of total protein stains as loading controls: an alternative to high-abundance single-protein controls in semi-quantitative immunoblotting.

    Georgina M. Aldridge;David M. Podrebarac;William T. Greenough;Ivan Jeanne Weiler

  • Autism as a disorder of neural information processing: directions for research and targets for therapy

    M K Belmonte;E H Cook;G M Anderson;J L R Rubenstein

  • RNA Cargoes Associating with FMRP Reveal Deficits in Cellular Functioning in Fmr1 Null Mice

    Kevin Y. Miyashiro;Andrea Beckel-Mitchener;T.Patrick Purk;Kevin G. Becker

  • Differential rearing effects on rat visual cortex synapses. III. Neuronal and glial nuclei, boutons, dendrites, and capillaries.

    Anita M. Sirevaag;William T. Greenough

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey A. Kleim
Jeffrey A. Kleim Arizona State University
Theresa A. Jones
Theresa A. Jones The University of Texas at Austin
Arthur F. Kramer
Arthur F. Kramer Northeastern University
Fred R. Volkmar
Fred R. Volkmar Yale University
Gregory A. Miller
Gregory A. Miller University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher J. McDougle
Christopher J. McDougle Harvard University
Craig A. Erickson
Craig A. Erickson Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Peter C. Brunjes
Peter C. Brunjes University of Virginia
Randi J Hagerman
Randi J Hagerman University of California, Davis
Ben A. Oostra
Ben A. Oostra Erasmus University Rotterdam

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