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Instructor, Department of
Psychiatry, Case School of Medicine
Office Phone: 440-526-3030 x6608
E-Mail: christine.nocjar@case.edu
Office Location: Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC, 116A/B
10000 Brecksville Road, Building 5, Room 48
Brecksville, OH 44141
Graduate School
PhD in Experimental Biological Psychology,
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
Fellowship Training
Animal Models of Addiction. Center for
Drug and Alcohol Programs, Neurobehavioral Pharmacology
Department, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston,
South Carolina
Neuropharmacology and Neuroanatomy. General
Mental Health, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center,
Brecksville, Ohio
Special Interests
Animal models of alcoholism and psychostimulant
addiction. Understanding the role of serotonin in drug-seeking
behaviors. Determining how serotonine alters cortical
glutamate function and how stress interacts with this
function.
Recent Publications
Nocjar, C.; Middaugh, L.D. & M. Tavernetti
(1999). Ethanol consumption and place-preference conditioning
in the alcohol-preferring C57BL/6 mouse: Relationship
with motor activity patterns. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental
Research, 23: 683-692.
Nocjar, C. & J. Panksepp (2002). Effect
of repeated amphetamine pretreatment on future amphetamine
place-preference conditioning and appetitive behavior
for natural rewards: interaction with environmental variables.
Behavioral Brain Research, 128: 189-203.
Nocjar, C.; Roth, B.L. & E.A. Pehek (2002).
Localization of 5-HT2A receptors on dopamine cells in
subnuclei of the midbrain A10 cell group. Neuroscience,
111:163-176.
Panksepp, J.,Nocjar,
C., Burgdorf, J., Panksepp, J.B., & Huber, R. (2004).
The role of emotional systems in addiction: A neuroethological
perspective.Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 50: 85-126.
Pehek, E.A.; Nocjar, C.; Roth, B.L.; Byrd,T.A.;Mabrouk,O.S.
(2006; published online 6 July 2005). Evidence for the
preferential involvement of 5-HT2A serotonin receptors
in stress- and drug-induced dopamine release in the rat
medial prefrontal cortex. Neuropsychopharmacology, 31:
265-277.
Research Projects
Cortical regulation of amphetamine-sensitized
reward-seeking behavior. Supported by NIDA and The Cleveland
VA Research and Education Foundation. 2003-present.
Glutamatergic regulation of amphetamine-sensitized
reward-seeking. Supported by CWRU Department of Pediatrics
and the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN 10,
Ohio Health Care System). 2003-present.
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