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Information trouvée : Dr. Crawley received her B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971.
She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1976, where she studied
catecholamines mediating isolation-induced aggression in male mice. Dr. Crawley did
postdoctoral training at Yale University with James Maas and Robert Roth, investigating
neuropharmacological activation of the locus coeruleus, using gas chromatography-mass
spectrometry to measure catecholamine metabolites in brain and plasma of rats. In
1979 she came to the NIMH as a PRAT Fellow and studied anxiety-like behaviors in mice.
Dr. Crawley spent several years at the Neurobiology Basic Research Program at DuPont
before returning to NIMH in 1983 to create a rodent behavioral neuropharmacology laboratory.
She served as Acting Deputy Scientific Director of NIMH (1993), President of the International
Behavioral Neuroscience Society (2000-2001), Organizer of the Summer Neuropeptide
Conference (1993-98), and Editor of the journal Neuropeptides (1997-present). Dr.
Crawley?s laboratory is studying the role of the neuropeptide galanin in learning
and memory, and its potential involvement in Alzheimer?s disease.