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Thomas Heinbockel, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Anatomy, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA. He holds an adjunct faculty position in both the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and the Department of Physiology at University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Heinbockel studied biology at Philipps University, Germany. His studies of the brain began during his MS thesis work at the

Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Germany. Dr. Heinbockel earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, USA. After graduating, he worked as a research associate at the Institute of Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany. Dr. Heinbockel's research is focused on understanding how the brain processes information as it relates to neurological and psychiatric disorders. His laboratory at Howard University concentrates on foundational and translational topics such as drug development, organization of the olfactory and limbic systems, neural signaling, and synaptic transmission in the central nervous system.
