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Laura E. O'Dell    
Laura O'Dell
   
Personal Information    
Ph.D., Arizona State University (1997)

Assistant Professor

Curriculum Vitae

Neural Basis of Addiction Lab

O'Dell Selected Works
   
Research Interests    

My research program is focused on the neural mechanisms that mediate addiction to drugs of abuse. Our laboratory combines various neurochemical techniques with behavioral models to study the neural basis of addiction. 


Specific areas of interest include:
• Developing animal models of drug abuse, including intravenous and oral self-administration models

• Developmental factors and sex differences that influence drug use and withdrawal

• Behavioral and neurochemical mechanisms mediating nicotine and alcohol dependence

   
Sample Publications    

O'Dell, L.E. (in press). A psychobiological framework of the substrates that mediate nicotine use during adolescence. Neuropharmacology.

Torres, O.V., Natividad, L.A., Tejeda, H.A., O'Dell, L.E. (2008). Enhanced vulnerability to the rewarding effects of nicotine during the adolescent period of development. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 90: 658-663.

O'Dell, L.E., Torres, O.V., Natividad, L.A. and Tejeda, H.A. (2007). Adolescent nicotine exposure produces less affective measures of withdrawal relative to adult nicotine exposure in male rats. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 29(1): 17-22.

O'Dell, L.E. and Koob G.F. (2007). "Nicotine deprivation effect" in rats with intermittent 23-hour access to intravenous nicotine self-administration. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 86(2): 346-353.

O'Dell, L.E., Chen, S.A., Specio, S.E., Paterson, N.E., Balster, R.L., Markou, A., E.P. Zorilla, Koob G.F. (2006). Extended access to nicotine self-administration leads to dependence: Circadian measures, food and water intake measures, withdrawal measures, and extinction behavior in rats. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 320(1): 180-193.
   
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Department of Psychology
University of Texas at El Paso
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Psychobiology-PSYC 4324
Drugs of Abuse & Beh.-PSYC 3346
Animal Learning & Beh.-PSYC 5371
Grant Writing-PSYC 5355
Adv. Topics in Neurosci.-PSYC 5355
   
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