Faculty
Psychology Faculty
Loretta M. Flanagan-Cato
Research Interests: Neuroendocrinology; Sexual behavior; Neural plasticity
Email: flanagan@cattell.psych.upenn.edu
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/flanagan.htm
Lab: www.psych.upenn.edu/~flanagan
Harvey Grill
Research Interests: Energy balance; Feeding; Obesity
Email: grill@cattell.psych.upenn.edu
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/grill.htm
Lab: www.psych.upenn.edu/feedinglab/
Joel M. Kaplan
Research Interests: Satiety signals and the microstructure of meals
Lab: www.psych.upenn.edu/feedinglab/
Laura L. Peoples
Research Interests: Mechanisms of addiction; Reinforcement
Email: peoples@psych.upenn.edu
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/peoples.htm
Associated Faculty
Ted Abel (Biology)
Research Interests: Genetic approaches to learning and memory
Email: abele@sas.upenn.edu
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/abel.htm
Gary Aston-Jones (Psychiatry)
Research Interests: Neurobiology of attention, affect and reward
Email: gaj@mail.med.upenn.edu
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/ajones.htm
Tracy Bale (Veterinary Medicine)
Research Interests: Obesity; Depression; Stress-related disorders
Email: tbale@vet.upenn.edu
Website: w3.vet.upenn.edu/faculty/tbale
Julie Blendy (Pharmacology)
Research Interests: Molecular basis of drug abuse
Email: blendy@pharm.med.upenn.edu
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/blendy.htm
David Dinges (Psychiatry)
Research Interests: Neurobehavioral functions
Email: dinges@mail.med.upenn.edu
Website: www.uphs.upenn.edu/cnb/dinges.htm
Steve Fluharty (Animal Biology)
Research Interests: Neuropeptide mechanisms in ingestive behavior
Email: fluharty@vet.upenn.edu
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/fluharty.htm
Irwin Lucki (Pharmacology)
Research Interests: Stress and Antidepressant mechanisms
Email: lucki@pharm.med.upenn.edu
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/lucki.htm
Lab: www.uphs.upenn.edu/cnb/Lucki.htm
Richard Miselis (Animal Biology)
Research Interests: Hypothalamic control of autonomic functions
Email: rmiselis@vet.upenn.edu
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/miselis.htm
Michael Nusbaum (Neuroscience)
Research Interests: Neural network modulation
Email: nusbaum@mail.med.upenn.edu
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/nusbaum.htm
Marc Schmidt (Biology)
Research Interests: Vocal learning in song birds
Email: marcschm@sas.upenn.edu
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/schmidt.htm
Amita Seghel (Neuroscience)
Research Interests: Molecular basis of circadian rhythms
Email: amita@mail.med.upenn.edu
Website: www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/sehgal.htm