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Bruce Newton

Professor and Chair of Anatomy

Disciplines

  • Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Medical Anatomy
  • Osteopathic Medicine and Osteopathy

Research Interests

  • The effects of undergraduate medical education on student vicarious and cognitive empathy, critical thinking skills, and motivation
  • Gonadal steroid hormone control of the neurotransmitter content of nociceptive afferents in the lumbosacral spinal cord, with special emphasis on the sex differences in pain
  • The ontogeny, circuitry, and hormonal control of development of neurotransmitter systems in spinal autonomic nuclei