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Name: Robin Kanarek
Departmental Affiliation: Psychology Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Psychology, Rutgers University; M.S. Psychology, Rutgers University; B.A., Biology, Antioch College
Expertise: Nutrition and Behavior
Behavioral Neuroscience
Psychopharmacology
E-mail: rkanarek@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, private foundations

Member of the Committee on Military Nutrition

Editorial board of a number of scientific journals

Vitale, M. A., Chen, D. and Kanarek, R. B. Chronic access to a sucrose solution enhances the development of conditioned place preferences for fentanyl and amphetamine in male Long-Evans rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 74: 529-539, 2003.

Busch, C. R., Taylor, H. A., Kanarek, R. B. and Holcomb, P. J. The effects of a confectionary snack on attention in young boys. Physiology and Behavior, 77:333-340, 2002.

Kanarek, R. B., Mandillo, S. and Wiatr, C. Chronic sucrose intake augments antinociception induced by injections of mu but not kappa opioid receptor agonists into the periaqueductal gray matter in male and female rats. Brain Research, 920: 97-105, 2001.

Mathes, W. F. and Kanarek, R. B. Wheel running attenuates the antinociceptive properties of morphine and its metabolite, morphine-6-glucuronide, in rats. Physiology and Behavior, 74: 245-251, 2001.

Mandillo, S. and Kanarek, R. B. Chronic sucrose intake enhanced nicotine-induced antinociception in female but not in male Long-Evans rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 68: 211-219, 2001.

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