Insop Shim

I am currently working as Professor in the Department of Physiology at Kyung Hee University, South Korea.

I received my Ph.D., degree in Behavioral Neuroscience from University of Illinois, USA and completed my post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine University of Illinois, U.S.A.

I am the member of the Society for Neuroscience and has served as an organizing committee of many International conferences.

I have served as the Editor-in-Chief of Korean Society of Stress Medicine, Executive Editor of Experimental Neurobiology, and section editor of BMC-Complementary medicine and therapies.

I have published more than 220 publications.

My research interests include functional neuroanatomy, neural mechanisms responsible for motivational behaviors including stress, drugs of abuse, learning and memory and Development of new drugs for neurodegenerative disease like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's disease, Ischemia.