After receiving my doctorate in 1988, I taught for one year at Auburn University. In 1989 I accepted a position in the psychology department at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, VA, where I continue to teach and conduct research in the field of behavioral neuroscience. Sex differences and gonadal hormones influence susceptibility to the activity-stress paradigm. The influence of environmental enrichment and sex on predator-stress response in rats. Prenatal stress attenuates ulceration in the activity-stress paradigm.
Prenatal stress alters the size of the rostral anterior commissure in the rats .
Brain Research Bulletin , recently accepted. Activity stress induces atrophy of apical dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons in male rats. Physiology and Behavior , in press. Increase in somal area inmedial preoptic area neurons following pregnancy and pregnancy-like steroidal treatment in the rat. Hormones and Behavior , submitted.