Student Research

Past Students:  I have mentored over twenty-five different student research projects over the years. Approximately 85% of these students were admitted to a graduate school or professional program. Listed below are some research topics:

• Parkinson's disease preclinical adaptations
• Aspartame effects on dopamine neurotransmission
• Pain Treatment
• Haloperidol induced receptor changes
• Biogenic amine differences in rat strains
• Phantom Tooth Pain
• Behavioral Ephedrine effects
• Serotonin and eating disorders
• Stimulus duration effects on extracellular dopamine
• Neuroprotective treatments for Parkinson's disease
• Neuroprotective treatments for Huntington's disease

                                                     Above: Faraday cage enclosing a stereotaxic apparatus for
                                                                    Fast-scan cyclic voltammetry experiments
 

                                                                    Above: Small animal stereotaxic apparatus
                                                                                    used for neurotoxin lesions
 

                                                                     Above: Narishige Micropipette puller for
                                                                            fabricating carbon-fiber microsensors
 

                                                             Above:  Bio-Rad Microplate Reader used for protein
                                                                                                assay.
 

                                                                    Above: Ultrasonic processor for lysing cells
 

                                             Above:  Perkin Elmer HPLC with an autosampler and ESA electrochemical
                                                                                                 detector