Alison Fleming

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Neurobiology and Genetics

office: 905-828-3961, CCT Builing, room 4071
lab: 905-828-5297, William Davis Building room 1015
lab: 905-828-4921, William Davis Building room 1013
email: alison.fleming@utoronto.ca

Area of Research
Hormones and Behavior, Behavioral Neuroscience [more]
 

Profile
I am primarily interested in understanding why mothers want to mother. For 30 years I have studied this question in rats, in humans, and now in monkeys. We are interested in the factors that induce the ‘motivation’ to mother in terms of hormonal factors, sensory factors, the role of different brain mechanisms, the influences of early experiences, and so on. Details of our research questions and methodologies may be found on our website https://utm.utoronto.ca/fleming-mum-lab/