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Name: Joseph DeBold
Title: Professor of Psychology
Departmental Affiliation: Psychology Department
Degrees: Ph.D. University of California at Irvine; A.B. University of California at Los Angeles
Expertise: neural and hormonal control of animal sexual behavior, the neuroanatomy of brain systems necessary for animal social behavior, hormone-drug interactions, and aggressive behavior
E-mail: jdebold@emerald.tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: DeBold, J.F. and Frye, C.A. (1994) Progesterone and the neural mechanisms of hamster sexual behavior. Psychoneuroendocrinology 19: 563-579.

Miczek, K.A., DeBold, J.F. and van Erp, A.M.M. (1994) Neuropharmacological characteristics of individual differences in alcohol effects on aggression in rodents and primates. Behavioural Pharmacology 5: 407-421.

DeBold, J.F. and Frye, C.A. (1994) Genomic and non-genomic actions of progesterone in the control of female hamster sexual behavior. Hormones and Behavior 28: 445-453.

Miczek, K.A., DeBold, J.F., van Erp, A.M.M. and Tornatzky, W. (1996) Alcohol, benzodiazepine-GABAA receptor complex and aggression. In Recent Developments in Alcoholism. Vol. XIII. Alcohol and Violence. M. Galanter (Ed.) New York: Plenum Press, pp. 139-171.

Ramos, S.M. and DeBold, J.F. (1999) Protein synthesis in the medial preoptic area is important for mating-induced decrease in estrus duration in hamsters. Hormones and Behavior 35: 177-185.

DeBold, J.F., Parow, A.M. and Fish, E.W. (2000) The NMDA antagonist MK-801 has opposite effects on sexual receptivity when infused into the VMH as opposed to the VTA of female hamsters. Trabajos del Institutos Cajal 77: 262-263.

Ramos, S.M. and DeBold, J.F. (2000) Fos expression in female hamsters after various stimuli associated with mating: Preferential expression in the POA and BNST. Physiology and Behavior 70: 557-566.

Fish, E.W., Faccidomo, S., DeBold, J.F. and Miczek, K.A. (in press) Alcohol, allopregnanolone and aggression in mice. Psychopharmacology

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