Robert Astur

Associate Professor, CLAS

Psychology

Research Interests

Addiction, spatial memory, hippocampus, estrogen, sex differences, PTSD, anxiety disorders, trauma, learning and memory

Current Projects

Studying the effects of nicotine on learning and memory. Studying how estrogen helps learning and memory and how hormonal contraceptives affect cognition. Studying anxiety and the best ways to reduce it following trauma.

Website

http://psychology.uconn.edu/labs/astur/