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Joseph DeBold
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1975
joe.debold@tufts.edu

Dr. DeBold conducts research examining the neural and hormonal control of animal sexual behavior, the neuroanatomy of brain systems necessary for animal social behavior, hormone-drug interactions, and aggressive behavior.

Representative Publications   

Floody, O.R. and DeBold, J.F. (2004) Effects of midbrain lesions on lordosis and ultrasound production. Physiology and Behavior 82: 791-804.

Miczek, K.A., Fish, E.W., de Almeida, R.M.M., Faccidomo, S. and De Bold, J.F. (2004) Role of alcohol consumption in escalations to violence. In Youth Violence: Scientific Approaches to prevention. Devine, J., Gilligan, J., Miczek, K.A., Pfaff, D.W., and Shaikh, R. (Eds). Annals of New York Academy of Sciences 1036: 278-289.

Miczek, K.A., Faccidomo, S., de Almeida, R.M.M., Bannai, M., Fish, E.W. and De Bold, J.F. (2004) Escalated aggressive behavior: New Pharmacotherapeutic approaches and opportunities. In Youth Violence: Scientific Approaches to prevention. Devine, J., Gilligan, J., Miczek, K.A., Pfaff, D.W., and Shaikh, R. (Eds). Annals of New York Academy of Sciences 1036: 336-355.

Gourley, S.L., DeBold, J.F., Cook, J., Yin, W., and Miczek, K.A. (2005) Benzodiazepines and heightened aggressive behavior in rats: reduction by GABAA/a1 receptor antagonists. Psychopharmacology 178: 232-240

Fish, E.W., DeBold, J.F. and Miczek, K.A. (2005) Escalated aggression as a reward: Corticosterone and GABAA receptor positive modulators in mice. Psychopharmacology, 182(1):116-27.

Miczek, K.A., Faccidomo, S., Fish, E.W. and De Bold, J.F. (2006) Neurochemistry and molecular neurobiology of aggressive behavior. In Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology, Vol 21. Lathja, A., and Blaustein, J.D. (Eds). (in press).