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    Lee Gilman

    Department of Psychological Sciences
    Assistant Professor
    Contact Information
    Email:
    lgilman1@kent.edu
    Phone:
    (330) 672-2201
    Personal Website: Website

    Biography

    Graduate Areas:
    • Psychological Science - Behavioral Neuroscience

    Does Dr. Gilman plan to recruit a doctoral student for the next incoming class?

    Research Interests:

    Research in the Gilman lab is focused on bridging gaps in knowledge about how consuming unhealthy diets, or experiencing other forms of environmental stress, feed forward to promote maladaptive behavioral changes.  Such behavioral shifts include persistent consumption of unhealthy diet, inappropriate responses to stressors, or both, frequently culminating in psychiatric symptoms that are comorbid with metabolic or cardiovascular diseases.  Specifically, we are investigating how diet- and stress-related neuroactive hormones affect brain circuits regulating food seeking to initiate and perpetuate this feed-forward pathophysiology that can dramatically impact behavior.

    Lab Site:  https://www.thestressedbrain.com/

    Courses Frequently Taught:
    • Biopsychology
    • Neuroscience II
    • Neuropsychopharmacology
    Publications:
    • Go to my Google Scholar profile for an up-to-date list of my lab's publications. 

    Education

    Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University (2013)
    Healthy Communities Research Institute

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