Christina J. Reppucci

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Professor of the Practice of Psychology and Neuroscience

Contact

Phone: 508-286-5533

Education

Ph.D., M.A. in Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience), Boston College
B.S. in Biology, Gettysburg College

About

I am behavioral neuroscientist whose graduate and postdoctoral research focused on better understanding the neural systems underlying motivated behaviors. Specifically, I used rodent models to ask questions about the roles of specific neurochemicals and specific neural pathways in the expression of behaviors like social play and food consumption, and whether these behaviors (and the neural systems that regulate them) were similar between the sexes, across the lifespan, and between species.

At Wheaton, I am sharing my passion for neuroscience with students in the classroom and am dedicated to providing students with meaningful laboratory experiences as supervisor of the Psychology & Neuroscience Department’s Behavioral Neuroscience Lab & Surgery Suite.

Teaching Interests

Courses

  • PSY-101: Introductory Psychology
  • PSY-211: Learning & Memory
  • PSY-225: Introduction to Neuroscience
  • PSY-227: Introduction to Psychopharmacology
  • PSY-341: Laboratory in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • PSY-398: Neurobiology of Eating & Eating Disorders

Student Projects

Current Research Students:

  • Michelle Aum5
  • Allie Taylor
  • Claire Deans-Rowe
  • Emma Zhou

Past Research Students:

  • Jordan Cook
  • Cassidy Fitzpatrick1,5: The role of oxytocin signaling in the ventral tegmental area on the regulation of social and anxiety-like behaviors.
  • Benjamin Goho1,2,3,5: The effects of environmental enrichment on social play, anxiety-like behavior, and plasticity in the medial prefrontal cortex of young male and female rats.
  • Chi-Ni Lin2,3
  • Nyima Bhuti1
  • Rachel Cozzens1
  • Sadie Drouin5: The effects of maternal separation and social isolation on memory and myelin in adolescent rats.

1 Summer Research Internship, 2 PSY-337 Internship, 3 Wheaton Research Partnership, 4 Independent Study (PSY-X99 or NEUR-X99), 5 Honors Thesis (PSY-500 or NEUR-500)

 

Department(s)

Psychology

Program(s)

Office

Mars Science Center 1131

Hours

Fall 2024:
Wednesdays 10:30am-1:30pm
or by appointment