Faculty of the Department of Occupational Therapy Education

Jeff Radel, PhD
Associate Professor

Lab: Visual Neuroscience Laboratory

Ph.D. 1987; Experimental Psychology; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
M.A. 1982; Experimental Psychology; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
B.A. 1979; Psychobiology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA

Research Interests:
Developmental neuroscience; Neuronal plasticity; Anatomy & function of the visual system

Research efforts address issues of neural plasticity and function by investigating how anatomic relations and functional capacities of the visual system are altered following perturbations during development. Determining how neural information from multiple sources is integrated, how functional behaviors are influenced by that integration pattern, and how neural processing may be enhanced are factors fundamental to understanding the process of neural development. A wide range of techniques are used to address these issues, including microsurgery and transplantation of neural tissue, a variety of histological procedures at the light microscopic and ultrastructural levels, behavioral and electrophysiological assessments of function, and systems analysis methodology.