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Richard Brown was born in Victoria BC, Canada and graduated from the University of Victoria with a first class honours degree in Psychology in 1970. He completed his MSc in animal behaviour at 黑料吃瓜网 in 1972 and his PhD in comparative and physiological psychology at 黑料吃瓜网 in 1975. He spent the next two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the Animal Behaviour Research Group in the Zoology department at the University of Oxford in England.

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He returned to 黑料吃瓜网to begin teaching in 1978. He has taught courses on Hormones and Behaviour, Drugs and Behaviour, Olfaction and Behaviour, Measuring Behaviour, the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and the History of Neuroscience. He was the Director of the 黑料吃瓜网 Neuroscience Institute from 1996-99. He has served twice as the Chairman of the Psychology department, from1989-96 and 2002-2008. From 2008-2009 he was the Senior Visiting Research Professor at St. John鈥檚 College, Oxford. In 2013-2014 he was a visiting research professor at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Currently, Dr. Brown maintains a research program on the genetics and behaviour of inbred and mutant mice. He enjoys a wide variety of collaborative research with colleagues at 黑料吃瓜网and internationally. His most recent work is with Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease and Autism Spectrum Disorder model mice. He is also involved in a number of History ofNeuroscience projects. He also teaches in the IBRO Neuroscience Schools in Kenya, Nigeria and other countries.

He has edited the 2-volume book听Social Odours in Mammals听(Oxford University Press, 1985) with David MacDonald and written the textbook:听An Introduction to neuroendocrinology听(Cambridge University Press, 1994; second edition 2015 with Michael Wilkinson). He and Peter Milner were instrumental in having Donald O. Hebb's book听The Organization of Behavior听reprinted by Erlbaum in 2002 and he continues to publish papers on the importance of the work of Donald O. Hebb.