Appointments
Assistant Professor, University of Central Arkansas, Department of Biology, 2001to present
Adjunct Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 2003 to present
NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University, 1997 to 2001
Rett Foundation Fellow, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1996 to 1997
Professional Preparation
B.A. Psychology, University of Texas at Dallas, 1991
M.S. Applied Cognition and Neuroscience, University of Texas at Dallas, 1993
Ph. D. Human Development/Neuroscience, University of Texas at Dallas, 1996
Web Site
http://faculty.uca.edu/~bclancy/index.html
Database
Translating Time Across Developing Mammalian Species
http://www.translatingtime.net/
Publications
Clancy, B. Kersh, B., Hyde, J. Darlington R.B., Anand K.J.S. Finlay, B.L. (2006) Web-Based Method For Translating Neurodevelopment From Laboratory Species To Humans (in press, Neuroinformatics)
Clancy, B., Practical use of evolutionary neuroscience principles. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 29: 14-15, 2006.
Finlay, B.L., Clancy, B. and Kingsbury, M., B. Hopkins and S. Johnston (Eds.), Advances in Infancy Research, Neurophysiology of Infant Vision pp 1-32. Praeger Press. The developmental neurobiology of early vision. (2003)
Bates, E., Thal, D., Finlay, B., and Clancy, B. Early language development and its neural correlates. (2002) In F. Boller and J. Grafman (Series Eds.) I. Rapin and S. Segalowitz (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of neuropsychology, Volume 7: Child neurology (2nd ed). Amsterdam: Elsevier. (cited 68 times)
Clancy, B. and Finlay, B. (2001) M. Tomasello and E. Bates (Eds.), Essential Readings in Language Development. pp. 307-330. Blackwell Publishers.
Clancy, B., Darlington, R.B. and Finlay, B.L. Translating developmental time across mammalian species. Neuroscience. 105:7-17. 2001. (cited 75 times; journal impact factor 3.456)
Clancy, B., da Silva Filho, M. and Friedlander, M. J. Structure and projections of white matter neurons in the postnatal rat visual cortex. Journal of Comparative Neurology. 434:233-252. 2001. (cited 15 times journal impact factor 3.4)
Thal, D., and Clancy, B. Brain development and language learning: Implications for prevention of non-biologically based language-learning disorders. Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. 25: 52-76. 2001
Clancy, B., Darlington, R.B. and Finlay, B.L. The course of human events: predicting the timing of primate neural development. Developmental Science. 3:57-66. 2000. (cited 37 times, journal impact factor 2.436)
Clancy, B. and Cauller, L. J. Widespread projections from subgriseal neurons (layer VII) to layer I in adult rat cortex. Journal of Comparative Neurology. 407:275-286, 1999. (cited 31 times; journal impact factor 3.4)
Cauller, L. J., Clancy, B., and Connors, B. W. Backward cortical projections to primary somatosensory cortex in rats extend long horizontal axons in layer I Journal of Comparative Neurology. 390:297-310, 1999. (cited 41 times, journal impact factor 3.4)
Clancy, B. and Cauller L.J. Reduction of background autofluorescence in brain sections following immersion in sodium borohydride. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 83:97-102, 1998. (cited 25 times; journal impact factor 1.894)
Invited Speaker
Twenty-Third International Neurotoxicology Conference Little Rock, AR (September, 2006) Title: What Is That In Rat Days? A Web Based Approach to the Translation of Neurodevelopmental Time Across Mammalian Species
University of Central Arkansas Department of Physical Therapy Research Forum (April, 2006) Title: Does pain alter the developing brain?
Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute Seminar Series (September, 2005) Title: Translating Developmental Times Across Experimental Species To Humans.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Biosciences and Bioinformatics Seminar Series (December, 2004) Title: What is that in Rat Days?
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Seminar Series in Neurophysiology, Little Rock, AR (April, 2004) Title: Correlating Neurodevelopment Time Across Species.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Seminar Series in Neurobiology, Little Rock, AR (April, 2002) Title: Persisting Subplate Cells: What Are They Doing And Why Do We Care?
Neuroscience Center of Harvard Medical School/ Massachusetts General, Boston, Mass (December, 2002) Title: A Role For Persisting Subplate Neurons In The Cortical White Matter.
Abstracts *undergraduate students **graduate students
Adverse effects of neonatal experiences are retained throughout adulthood (2005) A. Plummer*, J. Frank**, B. Bowden**, K. Street*, S. Palmer*, K.J.S. Anand, B. Clancy. Annual Conference Society for Neuroscience 824.11.
Web-based statistical algorithm for calculating comparative neurodevelopmental ages (2005) B. Kersh, *J.R. Hyde*, B.L. Finlay, R.B. Darlington, K.J.S. Anand, B. Clancy. Annual Conference Society for Neuroscience 570.8.
Guinea pig neural development predicted using a statistical model. (2005) J.L. Staudinger**, R.B. Darlington, B. Clancy. Annual conference Society for Neuroscience 147.10.
Long-Term Effects of Adverse neonatal Experiences Linked to a Critical Window of Development. H. Delahunt, J. Talburt, S. Isbell, B. Bowden, J. Frank, K.J.S. Anand and B. Clancy. Arkansas Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience Conference, Little Rock, AR. Nov. 2005.
Effects of Neonatal Pain are Retained throughout Adulthood. S. Palmer, B. Bowden, K. Street, A. Plummer, J. Talburt, S. Isbell, H. Delahunt, J. Hyde, K.J.S. Anand and B. Clancy, BRIN Research Conference. Little Rock, AR. July 2005
A Web-Based Approach to Equating time Across Species. J. Hyde, B. Kersh, J. Staudinger. Arkansas BRIN Research Conference. Little Rock, AR. July 2005
Equating Time Across Species B. Kersh, J. Staudinger, J. Harrison B. Clancy. Undergraduate Research Symposium: Henderson State University April, 2005
Behavior Effects of Neonatal Pain Retained into Adulthood B. Bowden, A. Plummer, S. Palmer, K. Street, J. Frank, S. Isbell, H. Delahunt, J. Hyde, J. Talburt. B. Clancy. Undergraduate Research Symposium: Henderson State University April, 2005
Consequences of Pain on Brain Development (2004) Plummer, A.*, Bowden, B.*, Street, K.*, Carter, J.*, Street, K.*, Palmer, S.* Frank, J.**, Anand, K.J.S. and Clancy, B., Undergraduate Research Symposium: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Translating Time Across Developing Species Using a Mathematical Model (2004) Stauinger, J.**, Harrison, J.*, Kersh, J.* Clancy, B., Midsouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society
Distribution and connectivity of persisting subplate cells in mature and aging mammalian cortex (2003) Fetcher, J.*, Bowman, B.*, Carter, J.*, Killingsworth, H.*, Frank, J.**, Clancy, B., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 596.16
Initial establishment of intracortical connectivity is modulated by thalamic input (2003) Yost, J.C.**, Greenidge, K.S.*, Lipan, M.J.*, Clancy, B. and Finlay, B.L., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 884.9
Surviving Subplate Cells in Swiss Webster mice. (2003) Bowman, B.*, Fetcher*, J., Carter, J.*, Frank, J.** and Clancy, B., Arkansas Academy of Science Annual Meeting.
Effects of Adverse Neonatal Experience on Cortical Neurons (2003) Clancy, B., Rognavagni, C., Baker, S.**, Jackson, R.*, Reid, M *, Frank, J.**, Carter, J.*, Bowden, B.*, Soellner, D.*, Bowman, B.*, Fechter, J. * and Anand, K.J.S., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) BRIN Conference.
Does Adverse Neonatal Experience Alter Cortical Development? (2003) Frank, J.**, Bowden, B.*, Carter, J.*, Glassman, D.*, Plummer, A.*, Soellner. D.*, Street, K.*, Rognavagni, C., Anand, K.J.S. and Clancy, B. Undergraduate Research Symposium: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Distribution and connectivity patterns of surviving subplate neurons in the cortex of young and old Swiss Webster mice. (2002) Clancy, B., Bowman, B*, Brewer, A.* and Fechter, J*. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 849.11
Development of axonal projections from different areas of neonatal hamster isocortex. (2001) Clancy, B., Kingsbury, M.**, Lipan, M.*, Graf, E.*, Yost, J.*, Sung, A.*, Parsons, M.* and Finlay, B.L. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.26
Translating time across species: What is that in rat days? (1999) Clancy, B., Finlay, B. L. and Darlington, R.B., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25:503.
Development of callosal and corticocortical projections in neonatal hamster isocortex (1999) Prasad, D.*, Graf, E.*, Kingsbury, M. A.**, Clancy, B., and Finlay, B.L., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25:504.
Development of intrahemispheric axonal connections in neonatal hamster isocortex (1998) Kingsbury, M. A.**, Clancy, B. and Finlay, B. L., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 24:58.
Structure, function and connectivity of white matter neurons in mammalian visual cortex (1997) Clancy, B., da Silva Filho, M., Hester, F. and Friedlander, M. J., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 23: 1268.
Widespread projections from layer VII (VIb, mature subplate) neurons to layer I in adult rat cortex revealed selectively with fluorescent tracers (1996) Clancy, B. and Cauller, L. J., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 22:107.
Thalamocortical afferents to layer I of rat sensory-motor cortex (1996) Mitchell, B. D.*, Clancy, B. and Cauller, L. J., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 22 :084.
Anatomy and physiology of cortico-tectal projections from the somatosensory neocortex of the rat: Golgi-like retrograde labeling using dextranamine (1996) Brown, R.** M.*, Paschall, G.*, Burton, M.*, Geron, D.*, Clancy, B. and Cauller, L. J., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 22:96.
Reciprocal "top down" projections to neocortical layer I of rat primary somatosensory and auditory cortices converge from higher cortical areas with afferents from interareal neurons of layer VII upon the distal dendrites of corticobulbar neurons (1995) Clancy, B., Brown, R.** and Cauller, L. J., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 21:112.
Neuroanatomical evidence in SI neocortex of rats that widespread backward projections in layer I from SII and MI converge with layer VII projections upon the distal dendrites of cortico-bulbar neurons: Reduction of background fluorescence by sodium borohydride enhances detection of axons in layer I (1994) Clancy, B. and Cauller, L. J., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 20:985.
Cortico-control projections between primary and secondary somatosensory areas of rats: Backward projections label layer I most heavily (1993) Clancy, B. and Cauller, L. J., Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 19:1211.
Invited Reviewer
National Science Foundation (NSF) 2006
Behavioral & Brain Sciences 2004, 2005, 2006
Brain Research 2006
Brain, Behavior and Evolution 2001, 2002
Journal of Cytology and Histochemistry 2000
Invited Commentary
Fetal Pain and Conscious Sensory Perception (written with K.J.S. Anand and Bjorn Merker)
Offered to Constitution Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives January, 2006
U. S. House Committee on the Judiciary
109th United States Congress
Invited Presentation
Conference on the Evolution of Intelligent Behavior, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (May, 2001) Title: Translating developmental time across mammalian species. (Presented with Darlington, R.B. and Finlay, B. L.)
Professional Societies
Member of the National Society for Neuroscience 1992- present
Member of the International Society for Neuroscience 2002-present
Member of the Arkansas Society for Neuroscience 2002-present (elected treasurer 2004-present)
Member of the Arkansas Academy of Sciences 2002-present
Member of the Faulty for Undergraduate Neuroscience 2001-present
Member of Midsouth Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Society 2003-present
