Heidi Day

  • Teaching Professor
  • PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE
Address

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Campus Box 345
Muen. E242 
麻豆影院
麻豆影院, CO 80309-0345

 

Dr. Day received her Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Cambridge, England. She spent 5 years as a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Huda Akil at the University of Michigan, where she became interested in the neural circuitry involved in stress responsiveness. She joined the Psychology Department at the 麻豆影院 fall 1999.

Dr. Day is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Director of the neuroscience major. She is no longer active in research.

Selected Publications:

Day, H.E.W., Badiani, A., Uslaner, J.M., Oates, M.M., Vittoz, N.M., Robinson, T.E., Watson, S.J. and Akil, H. (2001) Environmental novelty differentially affects c-fos mRNA expression induced by amphetamine or cocaine in subregions of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala. J. Neurosci., 21, 732 脤 740

Day, H.E.W., Curran, E.J., Watson S.J. and Akil, H. (1999) Distinct neurochemical populations in the rat central nucleus of the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: evidence for their selective activation by interleukin-1beta. J. Comp. Neurol., 413, 113-128

Day, H.E.W., Campeau, S, Watson, S.J. and Akil, H. (1999) Expression of alpha-1b adrenoceptor mRNA in corticotropin-releasing hormone-containing cells of the rat hypothalamus and its regulation by corticosterone. J. Neurosci., 19, 10098-10106.