Helen Barbas

Helen Barbas is a Professor at Boston University, focusing on the organization of the prefrontal cortex and its role in central executive functions in primates. Her research investigates prefrontal pathways interacting with cortical and subcortical structures to understand information selection and suppression in behavior.

• B.A. in Liberal Arts from Kean College (1972)
• M.S. in Psychobiology from Kansas State University (1974)
• Ph.D. in Physiology/Neurophysiology from McGill University (1979)
• Post-doctoral training in Neuroanatomy at Harvard Medical School (1978-1981)

Her experimental approaches include neural tracers, histochemical and immunocytochemical techniques, molecular procedures, and 3D imaging to analyze neural circuits at synaptic and systems levels.