Dayan Knox, PI
Dayan Knox, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor at the University of Delaware
Research Interests
Peripheral hormones (e.g. glucocorticoids) and central ascending arousal systems (e.g. locus coeruleus efferents) contribute to cognitive/emotional processes that are critical for normal psychological functioning. These systems are also sensitive to stress, and under certain circumstances, may contribute to abnormal cognitive/emotional processes that result in psychiatric disorders. My research interests concern exploring how stress-induced changes in peripheral hormonal and ascending arousal systems contribute to abnormal cognitive/emotional processes.
Using near-infrared fluorochromes in neuroscience research
The role of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in emotional memory
Discussing research with Francis Collins (NIH director) Dennis Assanis (president of UD) and Chris Coons (US senator for Delaware)
Science Brief for the American Psychological Association [link]:
"Examining how arousal systems and stress exposure modulate fear and extinction memory processes"
Symposium Presentation at the Pavlovian Society Annual Meeting 2015 [link]:
"Effects of traumatic stress on fear conditioning"
The role of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in fear and extinction memory
Inhibiting corticosterone synthesis during fear memory formation exacerbates cued fear extinction memory deficits within the single prolonged stress model
My "25th" birthday party in the lab!