Dr. Bryan Kolb - Academics

Bryan: "I studied psychology because I wanted to go into law and figured that would be a good background. What a surprise that was…" The surprise was that he was not only talented at his psychology courses, but he also enjoyed them. Under behaviourist influences such as (Great Canadian Psychologists) Brenda Milner and Wilder Penfield, Bryan was interested in learning deficits caused by cutting (lesioning) specific areas of the rat brain because some of these problems could be linked to human diseases.

Bryan was offered a position at the MNI with Brenda Milner, whom he spent a post doctoral year with, but took a professorship at the University of Lethbridge in order to follow his own research interest in comparative physiology in rats for such illnesses as Parkinson's Disease.