Department: Biology
Areas of expertise:
- Neuroscience
- Physiology
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Brown teaches human physiology and introductory neuroscience.
His research focuses on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). SIDS is a leading cause of post-neonatal infant mortality. Brown is interested in exploring how brainstem serotonin helps coordinate cardiovascular and thermoregulatory protective responses to stress, as well as how environmental stress, like hypoxia or thermal stress, affects the body, which has numerous applications for animal care and post-surgical recovery clinically.
Brown earned a bachelor's degree in biology/pre-medicine at Eastern Mennonite University and a doctorate in physiology at East Carolina University. He trained as a post-doctoral researcher at Dartmouth before coming to JMU in 2006.
Media contact: Eric Gorton, gortonej@jmu.edu.
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