Loretta Flanagan-Cato

Associate Professor

BA, Psychology, Rutgers University

Ph.D., Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh

M.S. Ed., Education Policy, University of Pennsylvania

Office Location:

304B Lynch Laboratories

Email:

flanagan@psych.upenn.edu

Phone:

215-898-4085

Website:

https://web.sas.upenn.edu/flanagan

Research Interests:

Community engagement and education outcomes

Specific Research Areas:

Neuroscience outreach; social connection and achievement

Professor Loretta Flanagan-Cato will be considering applications for admission for Fall 2020.

Selected Publications:

Flanagan-Cato, L.M. Everyday Neuroscience: A Community Engagement Course. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, in press 2019.

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

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.

Courses Taught:

BIBB 160 Everyday Neuroscience (ABCS)

BIBB 260 Neuroendocrinology

BIBB 460 Neuroendocrinology

PSYC 600 (proseminar) Behavioral Basis of Biology