Tenure track position (https://t.co/ZK3ajvpSju). QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS. Primary research interests should complement those of existing faculty in one or more of our graduate program areas: Behavioral Health, Social/Personality, Evolutionary & Comparative. https://t.co/ysK9EX1kEz
Dr. Allyson Bennett is the winner of the 2020 Clifford T. Morgan award for service from #SBNCP APA Div 6. Dr Bennett’s record of service to science and scientists is simply impressive. A richly deserved recognition. Congratulations Dr. Bennett. @AllysonJBennett#APA2020
Pain management is essential but ensuring medications are safe is paramount. Jermaine Jones quantifies abuse potential for common opioid analgesics in a clinical pharmacology setting. @BxNeuroCompPsy@APADiv28 @BehaviorAnalysis @APAdivision50#APA2020#EarlyCareer
Erik Garcia, a postdoctoral fellow at Texas Medical Branch discusses a non-opioid therapeutic strategy and shows that activating the serotonin 5-HT2C receptor reduces oxycodone reinforcement in rats. @erikgarcia21@utmbhealth @APA2020
Haley Fisher, a graduate student at Kansas State University, explains her work on the role of the orbital frontal cortex and the prelimbic cortex in behavioral flexibility and learning in rats: https://t.co/XNUCvwZw6d. @hayfish24 @chippickens @KState@KSUPsychSci#APA2020
Building relationships between human and animal research is critical. Dr Cecilia Bergeria discusses trait-level predictors to understand opioid reinforcement and pain analgesia for safer opioid prescribing. @ceciliabergeria @APADiv28 @BehaviorAnalysis @APAdivision50
Diverse Translational Perspectives in the Development of Opioid and Substance Use Disorders. @ceciliabergeria, Ryan Lacy, and Jermaine Jones share their work on the development of SUDs. @BxNeuroCompPsy@APADiv28 @BehaviorAnalysis @APAdivision50#APA2020#EarlyCareer
Mother’s milk programs growth and development: Dr. Amanda Dettmer discusses her & colleagues’ work on the influence of neonatal maternal milk glucocorticoids on brain and social development in rhesus monkeys @amanda_dettmer @YaleCSC@YaleMed#APA2020
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Congratulations Dr Audrey Parrish (The Citadel), winner of the #SBNCP APA Div 6 Brenda A. Milner Award for outstanding paper in Comparative Psychology. Dr Parrish’s presents on the density bias in nonhuman primates at #APA2020@CogSciGSU
Our session on the Future of Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology features talks by early career scientists including @vtempler@SEByosiere @amanda_dettmer @hayfish24 and @erikgarcia21. Join us to check out some of their amazing work! #APA2020
Want some new creative ideas for teaching and communicating behavioral neuroscience and comparative psychology? Check out our open source collaborative session with @TeachPsych, @amanda_dettmer : https://t.co/ltFmNssEbI
Episodic memory in animals? Dr. Jonathon Crystal from Indiana University discusses his work on animal models of episodic memory, with important implications for Alzheimer’s disease research: https://t.co/rzEH8Aq0vN @IndianaUniv@iubloomington
Why do animals play? Donald O. Hebb award winner Dr. Gordon Burghardt shares his research and theoretical explorations on the origins, evolution, and importance of play behavior. You can watch Dr. Burghardt’s talk here: https://t.co/FlhWlORzzu #APA2020#SBNCP#APA2020
#APA2020 starts today! Don’t miss Dr Dorothy Fragaszy’s virtual talk 1245-145 (EST). Capuchin monkeys using tools: Knowledge in action. Dr Fragaszy is editor of Journal of Comparative Psychology and a professor of psychology at the University of Georgia. @BxNeuroCompPsy
Every year, #SBNCP awards the D.O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award to a psychologist who has made significant contributions. This year’s winner is Dr. Gordon Burghardt from @UTKnoxville for his decades of work on reptile behavior and animal play behavior.
Watch Dr. Ben Farrar from the University of Cambridge talk explain the #replication crisis in comparative psychology, and tell us what we can do to solve it: https://t.co/t3Tyuk5dmf. #APA2020@bg_farrar@CambPsych