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Ronnie Green discusses the latest work conducted by the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior (CB3) housed in East Memorial Stadium nearby the Nebraska Athletic Performance Laboratory. The research conducted in CB3 spans across the academic spectrum, and the center has a new director in Cary Savage.

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[00:00:01.615]Welcome back to halftime of the Huskers game
[00:00:02.843]against the Wisconsin Badgers.
[00:00:04.337]I'm Greg Sharp in our Husker's Sports Network Studios.
[00:00:07.190]And delighted to be joined by the University
[00:00:08.886]of Nebraska Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green.
[00:00:11.040]Happy New Year, what a great way to get
[00:00:12.681]back into a nother semester, it's good
[00:00:14.116]to see the students back on campus isn't it?
[00:00:16.137]It is great to see the students back Greg.
[00:00:17.295]You know the semester started yesterday.
[00:00:19.336]So Spring Semester is off with a bang
[00:00:21.779]and seeing the students back on campus
[00:00:23.984]and the temperatures thawed a little bit.
[00:00:25.970]You know to welcome them home, so it's great
[00:00:28.105]to get another semester underway.
[00:00:30.168]Big game going on tonight against a Big 10 team
[00:00:32.527]in Wisconsin, one of the ways Nebraska has been a leader in
[00:00:35.481]the conference on the academic and research side is in the
[00:00:38.485]study of the brain with its Center for Brain,
[00:00:39.799]Biology and Behavior, known as CB3.
[00:00:42.290]What's new with CB3 these days?
[00:00:45.217]Well, Greg, you know CB3, the Center
[00:00:47.437]for Brain, Biology and Behavior here at
[00:00:50.619]the university, it's actually housed in Memorial Stadium,
[00:00:54.988]is a four year old, roughly effort.
[00:00:57.549]What we started as a state of the art,
[00:01:00.007]interdisciplinary program in brain science.
[00:01:03.109]So you think about everything to do with the brain
[00:01:04.976]and behavior that comes out of the brain,
[00:01:07.527]the biology of the brain, that neuroscience kind of area
[00:01:10.994]is kind of encouched in that CB3.
[00:01:15.702]Our scientist are publishing really ground breaking
[00:01:17.970]research across the academic spectrum
[00:01:20.098]that includes neuropsychology, early childhood development.
[00:01:24.760]A lot of focus in that area, in particular, is
[00:01:26.859]a strength for us here at the university.
[00:01:29.395]Sensory motor function and politics actually
[00:01:32.100]entered the equation with some political
[00:01:35.154]science work that's done at CB3.
[00:01:38.147]Continued to steadily grow over the last four years
[00:01:40.573]in the number of the faculty who use the center
[00:01:43.498]and the dollars that are attracted in research activities
[00:01:47.472]through grants that are part of CB3.
[00:01:50.509]And open door collaborations as well across the system.
[00:01:53.151]With UNMC, with UNO and our counterparts of the
[00:01:55.973]University of Nebraska system, so lots
[00:01:57.979]of activity going on there, regularly running busy trials
[00:02:02.030]as part of the research effort.
[00:02:04.372]Including the functional use of MRI technology,
[00:02:08.281]Magnetic Resonance Imagining, that people
[00:02:10.769]are familiar with on the human health side.
[00:02:13.615]For those that have had MRI scans done,
[00:02:15.814]it's the center kind of focus and piece of technology
[00:02:19.331]in CB3 and then there's the Salivary Bioscience lab
[00:02:23.084]that's attached to CB3 as well as part
[00:02:25.748]of the Nebraska Athletics Performance Laboratory.
[00:02:28.675]You mentioned that it's housed in Memorial Stadium,
[00:02:30.731]that's also where the Nebraska Athletic Performance Lab is.
[00:02:33.160]Do the two collaborate?
[00:02:34.653]Oh, absolutely, it was set up that way originally
[00:02:36.808]when the east stadium expansion was completed
[00:02:40.638]here a few years ago and these facilities became available.
[00:02:44.126]That was part of the plan for CB3 to be located
[00:02:47.174]there as part of the research enterprise
[00:02:49.243]of the university, coupled with and partnered with NAPL as
[00:02:52.075]we call it or the Nebraska Athletic Performance Lab.
[00:02:55.947]So they're neighbors to one another, they collaborate
[00:02:58.010]together, the NAPL has established a data repository
[00:03:04.229]to store anonymously identified to an individual data
[00:03:09.698]for health and performance of student athletes
[00:03:12.984]in concert with Husker Athletics.
[00:03:16.113]So it's allowing us to dig into and understand
[00:03:19.092]the neuroendocrinology if you will, or endocrinology
[00:03:22.818]based out of what we can learn from this Spit Lab,
[00:03:26.122]so to speak, as we call it at NAPL
[00:03:29.605]We expect that repository to be a boon for future
[00:03:33.556]research related to concussions, related to nutrition
[00:03:36.362]and performance from nutrition body composition
[00:03:40.140]and other athletic performance areas.
[00:03:42.578]So a lot of success to be proud of with both CB3 and NAPL.
[00:03:47.065]And I understand you have a new leader for CB3.
[00:03:49.727]We do, we welcomed this month, Carey Savage,
[00:03:54.276]who came on board as CB3's new director,
[00:03:57.424]came to use from the Banner Alzheimer's Institute
[00:04:00.351]in Phoenix, had previous experience at
[00:04:03.058]University of Kansas Medical School and a
[00:04:05.431]director of a center there in neuropsychology.
[00:04:08.805]Big background in that arena.
[00:04:11.435]As a scientist, spent time at Harvard and Mass General
[00:04:15.016]earlier in his career as a neuropsychologist.
[00:04:19.549]So, very pleased to have Carey with us.
[00:04:22.377]Very grateful for the previous interim director
[00:04:26.292]and the leadership that Dave Hanson, from
[00:04:28.549]our Psychology Department provided
[00:04:30.336]as the interim director of CB3.
[00:04:32.779]Dennis Mulfease was our original director,
[00:04:35.075]stepped down now a couple of years ago.
[00:04:37.473]So we're very, very pleased to have Dave returning
[00:04:40.697]to his role in Nebraska's Clinical Psychology
[00:04:43.630]Training Program and our Law Psych Program
[00:04:46.395]at the university and to have Carey now
[00:04:49.080]with us, leading CB3 forward as its director.
[00:04:51.999]Fantastic, thank you for the update on CB3.
[00:04:53.591]You bet, and go Big Red.
[00:04:55.582]We've got more second half action
[00:04:57.407]coming up next here on the network.

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