Psychology
BA, Psychology, Rutgers University;
Ph.D., Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
Behavioral neuroscience; especially hormonal effects on neural circuitry in the hypothalamus
Grafe, L.A., Kim, O.A., and L.M. Flanagan-Cato. Differential effects of mineralocorticoids and angiotensin II on mesolimbic activity. Hormones and Behavior 79: 28-36, 2016
Ferri, S.L., P.F. Hildebrand, S.E. Way, and L.M. Flanagan-Cato. Estradiol regulates markers of synaptic plasticity in the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus and amygdala of female rats. Hormones and Behavior, 409-420, 2014.
Grafe, L.A., A.E. Takacs, D.K. Yee and L.M. Flanagan-Cato. The role of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and the organum vasculosum lateral terminalis in the control of sodium appetite in male rats. J. Neuroscience, 34: 9249-9260, 2014.
Felgendreger, L.A., S.J. Fluharty, D.K. Yee, and L.M. Flanagan-Cato. Endogenous angiotensin II-induced p42/44 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation mediates sodium appetite but not thirst or neurohypophysial secretion. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 25: 97-106, 2013.
Ferri, S.L., C.J. Rohrbach, S.E. Way, K.S. Curtis, J.T. Curtis, and L.M. Flanagan-Cato. Dendritic arbor of neurons in the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). Hormones and Behavior 62: 173-179, 2013.
Ferri, S.L. and L.M. Flanagan-Cato. Oxytocin and dendrite remodeling in the hypothalamus. Hormones and Behavior, 61: 251-258, 2012.
Griffin, G.D. and L.M. Flanagan-Cato. Ovarian hormone action in the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus: remodelling to regulate reproduction. J. Neuroendocrinology, 23: 465-471, 2011
PSYC 239 Neuroendocrinology
PSYC 439 Neuroendocrinology
PSYC 600 (proseminar) Behavioral Basis of Biology