This seeks to identify normally healthy persons who may show exaggerated cardiovascular responses to mental stress. The fourth concerns the long-term effects of alcohol abuse on cardiovascular and endocrine function. Top of page Behavioral Genetics Laboratory Department of Pediatrics Thomas W. Seale, Ph.D., Professor This facility consists of five adjacent laboratories with 1,100 square feet of research space in the Biomedical Sciences Building, the central research building on campus, which also houses the main Animal Care Facility. These laboratories are equipped for a broad spectrum of behavioral, genetic, neurochemical, and pharmacological analyses and are compartmentalized according to function. Two quiet rooms with adjustable lighting control are dedicated full-time to behavioral experiments.
Active projects focus primarily on anxiety-related disorders.
Top of page Clinical Physiology Presbyterian Hospital O.H. Rundell, Ph.D., Director Diplomate, American Board of Sleep Medicine Renee K. Jones, Ph.D., Associate Director Diplomate, American Board of Sleep Medicine Sleep Disorders Center . The Center includes a four-bedroom suite equipped with the latest in computerized data acquisition and scoring equipment. The Urodynamics Laboratory assists in the evaluation of urinary incontinence and retention, as well as a wide variety of micturition disorders, including the neurogenic bladder, intrinsic sphincteric incompetence, bladder outlet obstruction, detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia, areflexia, and hyperreflexia. Non-invasive Vascular Laboratory . Established in 1982 as the first non-invasive peripheral vascular laboratory in Oklahoma City, the laboratory provides color Doppler arterial segmental pressures and ultrasound scans of the extremities, as well as the carotid and basilar arteries.