David Wolgin

David Wolgin
  • Department of Psychology
  • 561-297-3366
  • wolgindl@fau.edu
  • Boca Raton - BS-12, 231

Education

M.A. Vanderbilt; Ph.D. Rutgers; Postdoc Penn, Illinois

Curriculum Vita (pdf.)

Research Interests

Drug tolerance; psychostimulant drugs; basal ganglia; response selection/inhibition

Research Description

Contingent Tolerance to stimulant drugs; role of basal ganglia in inhibiting stimulant-induced stereotypy; recovery from lateral hypothalamic damage.

Recent Publications

Wolgin, D.L.  Development and reversal of sensitization to amphetamine-induced hypophagia: Role of temporal, pharmacological, and behavioral variables.  Psychopharmacology, 1995, 117, 49-54.

 Wolgin, D.L. & Wade, J.V.  Learned suppression of stereotypy in amphetamine-treated rats: Implications for understanding tolerance to amphetamine 'anorexia.'  Behavioural Pharmacology, 1995, 6, 254-262.

 Wolgin, D.L. & Hertz, J.M.  Effects of acute and chronic cocaine on milk intake, body weight, and activity in bottle- and cannula-fed rats.  Behavioural Pharmacology, 1995, 6, 746-753.

 Wolgin, D.L. & Hughes, K.M.  Effect of sensitization of stereotypy on the acquisition and retention of tolerance to amphetamine hypophagia.  Psychopharmacology, 1996, 126, 219-225.

 Wolgin, D.L. & Hughes, K.M.  Role of behavioral and pharmacological variables in the loss of tolerance to amphetamine hypophagia.  Psychopharmacology, 1997, 132, 342-349.

 Hughes, K.M., Popi, L. & Wolgin, D.L.  Experiential constraints on the development of tolerance to amphetamine hypophagia following sensitization of stereotypy:  Instrumental contingencies regulate the expression of sensitization.  Psychopharmacology, 1998, 140, 445-449.

Hughes, K.M., Popi, L. & Wolgin, D.L.  Loss of tolerance to amphetamine-induced hypophagia in rats:  Homeostatic readjustment versus instrumental learning.  Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior, 1999, 64, 177-182.

 Wolgin, D.L.  Contingent tolerance to amphetamine hypophagia:  New insights into the role of environmental context in the expression of stereotypy.  Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2000, 24, 279-294.

 Wolgin, D.L. & Hughes, K.M.  Long term retention of tolerance to amphetamine hypophagia following cessation of drug injections and feeding tests.  Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior, 2001, 70, 367-373.

 Wolgin, D.L. Effects of chronic amphetamine on the appetitive and consummatory phases of feeding.  Appetite, 2002, 38, 221-223.

 Hughes, K.M. & Wolgin, D.L. Changes in behavioral contingencies produce a loss of tolerance to amphetamine hypophagia in rats despite continued tests while drugged.  Behavioural Pharmacology, 2002, 13, 279-286.

 Wolgin, D.L. & Jakubow, J.J. Tolerance to amphetamine hypophagia: A microstructural analysis of licking behavior in the rat.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 2003, 117, 95-104.

 Wolgin, D.L. & Jakubow, J.J. Tolerance to amphetamine hypophagia: A real-time depiction of learning to suppress stereotyped movements in the rat.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 2004, 118, 470-478.

 Wolgin, D.L. & Munoz, J.R. Role of instrumental learning in tolerance to cathinone hypophagia.  Behavioral Neuroscience, 2006, 120, 362-370.

 Bachand, K.D., Guthrie, K.M. & Wolgin, D.L. Expression of c-fos mRNA in the basal ganglia associated with contingent tolerance to amphetamine-induced hypophagia.  Behavioural Brain Research, 2009, 198, 388-396.

 Wolgin, D.L. Amphetamine stereotypy, the basal ganglia, and the “selection problem.”  Behavioural Brain Research, 2012, 231, 297-308.

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