Richard Brown was born in Victoria B.C., Canada and graduated from the University of Victoria with a first class honours degree in Psychology in 1970. He completed his MSc in animal behaviour at Dalhousie University in 1972 and his PhD in comparative and physiological psychology at Dalhousie Univ...
Richard Brown was born in Victoria B.C., Canada and graduated from the University of Victoria with a first class honours degree in Psychology in 1970. He completed his MSc in animal behaviour at Dalhousie University in 1972 and his PhD in comparative and physiological psychology at Dalhousie University in 1975 and spent the next two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the Animal Behaviour Research Group at the University of Oxford in England.
He returned to Dalhousie to begin teaching in 1978. From 1989-96 he was Chairman of the Psychology Department. He has taught courses in Hormones and Behaviour, Drugs and Behaviour, Olfaction and Behaviour and the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.