For information about joining the Animal Behavior and Psycho-Pharmacology Lab, contact Dr. Mark Galizio or Dr. Kate Bruce.
Laura received her B.A. from UNCW in 2006 and her M.A. in Psychology in 2009. Laura has worked in the psychopharmacology lab for about four years, studying a wide variety of pharmaceuticals including MDMA (ecstasy), methamphetamine, methylphenidate (Ritalin), and morphine across a wide variety of spatial (Morris swim task, spatial memory span) and non-spatial olfactory tasks (olfactory memory span, repeated acquisitions procedure, and matching-to-sample/delayed MTS). For her masters thesis work, Laura studied the effects of NMDA antagonists on an olfactory delayed match-to-sample task in rats. Laura's other psychology interests include behavioral pharmacology, neuroscience, and animal behavior.
Thesis
"The effects of the NMDA antagonist dizocilpine on an olfactory delayed match-to-sample task in rats"
