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Dr. Mary Ann Raghanti

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Kent State University

 

Grant Support: NSF BCS-0921079

Selected Publications

Bauernfeind, A.L., de Sousa, A.A., Avasthi, T., Dobson, S.D., Raghanti, M.A., Lewandowski, A.H., Zilles, K., Semendeferi, K., Allman, J.M., Craig, A.D., Hof, P.R., Sherwood, C.C. (2013) A volumetric comparison of the insular cortex and its subregions in primates. Journal of Human Evolution
doi:pii:S0047-2848(13)00018-3. 10.1016/j.hevol.2012.12.003

Raghanti, M.A., Conley, T., Sudduth, J., Erwin, J.M., Stimpson, C.D., Hof, P.R., Sherwood, C.C. (2013) Neuropeptide Y-immunoreactive neurons in the cerebral cortex of humans and other haplorhine primates. American Journal of Primatology 75, 415-424.

Sayers, K., Raghanti, M.A., Lovejoy, C.O. (2012) Human evolution and the chimpanzee referential doctrine. Annual Review of Anthropology 41, 119-138.

Sherwood, C.C., Bauernfeind, A.K., Bianchi, S., Raghanti, M.A., Hof, P.R. (2012) Human brain evolution writ large and small. Progress in Brain Research 195, 237-254.

Muehlenbein, M.P., Ancrenaz, M., Sakong, R., Ambu, L., Prall, S., Fuller, G., Raghanti, M.A. (2012) Ape conservation physiology: fecal glucocorticoid responses in wild Pongo pygmaeus morio following human visitation. Plos One doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033357.

Sherwood, C.C., Bauernfeind, A.L., Bianchi, S., Raghanti, M.A. Hof, P.R. (2012) Human brain evolution writ large and small. Progress in Brain Research 195, 237-254.

Eaton, J.L., Roache, L., Nguyen, K.N., Cushing, B.S., Troyer, E., Papademetriou, E., Raghanti, M.A. (2012) Organizational effects of oxytocin on serotonin innervation. Developmental Psychobiology 54, 92-97.

Raghanti, M.A., Simic, G., Watson, S., Stimpson, C.D., Hof, P.R., Sherwood, C.C. (2011) Comparative analysis of the nucleus basalis of Meynert among primates. Neuroscience 184, 1-15.

Butti, C., Raghanti, M.A., Sherwood, C.C., Hof, P.R. (2011) The neocortex of cetaceans: cytoarchitecture and comparison with other aquatic and terrestrial species. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1225, 47-58.

Raghanti, M.A., Spocter, M.A., Butti, C., Hof, P.R., Sherwood, C.C. (2010) A comparative perspective on minicolumns and inhibitory GABAergic interneurons in the neocortex.  Frontiers in Neuroanatomy doi:10.3389/neuro.05.035.2010. 

Treichler, F.R., Raghanti, M.A. (2010) Monkeys combining serial lists: Test cues and linking.  Animal Cognition 13, 121-131.

Sherwood, C.C., Raghanti, M.A., Stimpson, C.D., Uddin, M., Spocter, M.A., Bonar, C.J.,  Phillips, K.A., Preuss, T.M., Erwin, J.M., Hof, P.R. (2010) Inhibitory interneurons of the human frontal cortex: evolution of the phenotype and related genes.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 299, 1011-1020.

Raghanti, M.A., Spocter, M.A., Stimpson, C.D., Erwin, J.M., Bonar, C.J., Allman, J.M., Hof, P.R., Sherwood, C.C. (2009) Species-specific distributions of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive neurons within the prefrontal cortex of anthropoid primates.Neuroscience 158, 1551-1559.

Raghanti, M.A., Stimpson, C.D., Marcinkiewicz, J.L., Erwin, J.M., Hof, P.R., Sherwood, C.C. (2008) Cortical dopaminergic innervation among humans, chimpanzees, and macaque monkeys: A comparative study. Neuroscience 155, 203-220.

Raghanti, M.A., Stimpson, C.D., Marcinkiewicz, J.L., Erwin, J.M., Hof, P.R., Sherwood, C.C. (2008) Cholinergic innervation of the frontal cortex: Differences among humans, chimpanzees, and macaques. Journal of Comparative Neurology 506, 409-424.

Raghanti, M.A., Stimpson, C.D., Marcinkiewicz, J.L., Erwin, J.M., Hof, P.R., Sherwood, C.C. (2008) Differences in cortical serotonergic innervation among humans, chimpanzees, and macaque monkeys: A comparative study. Cerebral Cortex 18, 584-597.

Treichler, F.R., Raghanti, M.A., Van Tilburg, D.N. (2007) Serial list linking by macaque monkeys (Macaca mulatta): List property limitations. Journal of Comparative Psychology 121, 250-259.

Sherwood, C.C., Raghanti, M.A., Stimpson, C.D., Bonar, C.J., de Sousa, A.J., Preuss, T.M., and Hof, P.R. (2007) Scaling of inhibitory interneurons in areas V1 and V2 of anthropoid primates as revealed by calcium-binding protein immunohistochemistry.  Brain, Behavior and Evolution 69, 176-195.

Sherwood, C.C., Stimpson, C.D., Raghanti, M.A., Wildman, D.E., Uddin, M., Grossman, L.I., Goodman, M., Redmond, J.C., Bonar, C.J., Erwin, J.M., Hof, P.R. (2006) Evolution of increased glial cell density in the human frontal cortex.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, 13606-13611.

Ulyan, M.J., Burrows, A.E., Buzzell, C.A., Raghanti, M.A., Marcinkiewicz, J.L., Phillips, K.A. (2006) The effects of predictable and unpredictable feeding schedules on the behavior and physiology of captive brown capuchins (Cebus apella).  Applied Animal Behavior Science 101, 154-160.

Sherwood, C.C., Raghanti, M.A., Wenstrup, J.J. (2005) Is humanlike cytoarchitectural asymmetry present in another species with social vocalization?  A stereologic analysis of mustached bat auditory cortex.  Brain Research 1045, 164-174.

Treichler, F.R., Raghanti, M.A., Van Tilburg, D.N. (2003) Linking of serially ordered lists by macaque monkeys:  List position influences.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Animal Behavior Processes 29, 211-221.

 

Research Areas

• Comparative neuroanatomical studies to address questions of human and nonhuman primate evolution
• Physiological correlates of behavior
• Conservation medicine in captive animals, including identifying serum biomarkers predictive of disease processes in addition to osteological measures of health status

OFFICE

Department of Anthropology

CONTACT INFO

Phone: 330-672-9354
Fax: 330-672-2999
mraghant@kent.edu

EXPERTISE

• Biological Anthropology