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Behavioral Neuroscience Faculty and their Interests

  • Bozarth, Michael, A., Ph.D.; Neural basis of appetitive motivation and reward; drug addiction; biological psychiatry; motivational theory.
  • Capaldi, Elizabeth D. Ph. D.; Incentives and preference learning in animals and humans.
  • Daniels, Derek, Ph.D.; Anatomical and biochemical basis of ingestive behaviors, including food, water, and salt intake.
  • Dent, Micheal, Ph.D.; Behavioral and physiological measures of the perception of complex auditory stimuli in birds and mammals.
  • DiPirro, Jean M., Ph.D; Neuropeptidergic and monoaminergic regulation of pain, analgesia, maternal behavior and drug addiction.
  • Hastrup, Janice L., Ph.D.; Behavioral medicine; understanding genetic and other risk factors; methodological issues; epidemiology of stress-related disorders.
  • Kristal, Mark B., Ph.D.; Maternal behavior; opiate-mediated processes; feeding and drinking; taste-aversion learning.
  • Mercado, Eduardo, III, Ph. D.; Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory.
  • Richards, Jerry B., PhD.; Roles of dopamine and serotonin in control of impulsivity.
  • Shucard, David W., Ph.D.;Neural basis of cognition in normal and impaired infants, children, adults, and animals; clinical neurophysiology; clinical and experimental neuropsychology.
  • Smith, Charles James, Ph.D.
  • Thompson, Alexis, Ph.D.; Neural adaptations associated with increased vulnerability or expression of drug addicton, anxiety, and maternal behavior; behavioral regulation of pain and analgesia; neuropeptide regulation of monoamines..
  • Wersinger, Scott, Ph. D.; Molecular aspects of reproductive behavior.

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