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Marsha M. Dopheide.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
2005 - Present

Office:
Rm. 217, Haldeman-Thiessen
Phone: 309-457-2144
Email:
mdopheide@monm.edu  

Education:

B.S.; Psychology, minor in Zoology, Western Illinois University, 2000.

M.S.; Experimental Psychology, Western Illinois University, 2003.

Ph.D.; Cognition and Neuroscience, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007

 
 

Courses:

Psyc 101: Introduction to Psychology
Psyc 243: Mind, Brain, and Behavior
Psyc 303: Drugs and Behavior
Psyc 315: Learning and Motivation
Psyc 320: Cognition
Psyc 340: Personality
Psyc 415: Readings: Neurological Disorders
Psyc 420: Research Seminar
ISSI 408: Personal Identity

 

Research Interests:

My research involves using rats to further understand learning and memory processes. More specifically, I am interested in understanding how aging and brain insults compromise these processes and the effects various drugs have on learning and memory.

Publications:

Schachtman, T., Kichnet, R., and Dopheide, M.  In Press.  Extinction and stimulus competition in classical conditioning: Processes occurring at the time of testing. F. Columbus (Editor), Learning. Nova Science Publishers: Hauppauge, NY.

Dopheide, MM, Morgan, RE, Rodvelt, KR, Schachtman, TR, Miller, DK. In Press.  Modafinil evokes striatal [3H]dopamine release and alters the subjective properties of stimulants.  European Journal of Pharmacology.

Serfozo, P., Shelat, PB., Dopheide, MM, Coulibaly, AP, Schachtman, TR.  In Press.  Differential roles of hippocampal metabotropic glutamate receptors 1 and 5 in inhibitory avoidance learning.  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.

Morgan, RE, Crowley, JM, Smith, RH, LaRoche, RB, Dopheide, MM. 2007. Modafinil improves attention, inhibitory control, and reaction time in healthy, middle-aged rats.  Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior 86, 531-541.

Bills, C., Dopheide, M., Pineno, O. and Schachtman, T. 2006.  Effects of an extinguished CS on competition with another CS.  Behavioural Processes, 72(1), 14-22.

Dopheide, M., Smith, S., Bills, C., Kichnet, R., and Schachtman, T.  2005.  Unexpected post-CS events during extinction and the slow reacquisition effect.  International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 18, 249-256.

Miller, DK, Dopheide, MM, Smith, SM, and Casteel, SW.  2005.  Dietary cadmium exposure attenuates D-amphetamine-evoked [3H]dopamine release from striatal slices and methamphetamine-induced hyperactivity.  Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 80(4), 557-566.

 

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