Patti Waters

Email: pw08ty@brocku.ca

Focus: Behavioural Neuroscience

Thesis Advisor: Cheryl McCormick

Research interests:

Publications:

Waters, P., Woodley, S.K. & Baum, M.J. Sex difference in the distribution and size of glomeruli in the ferret's main olfactory bulb. (2005). Neuroscience letters, 381:237-241.

Mathews, IZ., Waters, P., McCormick, CM (in press). Changes in acute hyporesponsiveness to amphetamine and age differences in tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactiviity in the brain over adolescence in male and female rats. Developmental Psychobiology.

McCormick, CM., Mathews, IZ., Thomas, C., Waters, P. (in press). Investigations of HPA function and the enduring consequences of stressors in adolescence in animal models. Brain and Cognition.

Alekseyenko, O.V., Waters, P., Zhou, H., Baum, M.J. Bilateral damage to the sexually dimorphic medial preoptic area/anterior hypothalamus of male ferrets causes a female-typical preference for and a hypothalamic Fos response to male body odors. Physiol. Behav. (2007). 90(2-3):438-49. E pub 2006

Cloe, A.L., Woodley, S.K.., Waters, P., Zhou, H. and M.J. Baum. (2004). Contribution of anal scent gland and urinary odorants to mate recognition in the ferret. Physiol Behav. 82:871-875.

Woodley, S.K., A. Cloe, Waters, P., and M.J. Baum. (2004). Effects of vomeronasal organ removal on olfactory sex discrimination and odor preferences of female ferrets. Chemical Senses. 29:659-669.

Research Poster Presentations :

Waters, P., Thomas, C., Mathews, IZ., McCormick, C.M. (June 2009). Effects of chronic corticosterone administration in adolescence and adulthood on anxiety and depressive behaviour in male rats. Poster presented at the Annual Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology conference, East Lansing, MI.

Waters, P. , Thhomas, C., Mathews, IZ., McCormick, CM. (October 2009). Immediate and long term effects of chronic corticosterone administration in adolescence or in adulthood on anxiety and depressive behaviour in male rats. Poster to be presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology conference, Chicago, IL.

Waters, P., Thomas, C., Mathews, IZ., McCormick, C.M. (October 2009). Corticosterone treatment increases the age difference in the forced swim test in male rats: Depressive behaviour in adolescence. Poster to be presented at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference, Chicago, IL.

Thomas, C., Waters, P., Mathews, IZ., McCormick, CM. (June 2009). Effects of social stress in adolescence on cell proliferation and survival in the dentate gyrus in rats. Poster session presented at the annual Society for Behavioral neuroendocrinology conference, East Lansing, MI.

Thomas, C., Waters, P., Mathews, IZ., McCormick, C.M. (October 2009). Adolescent social instability alters hippocampal neurogenesis into adulthood. Poster to be presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Conference, Chicago, IL.

Thomas, C., Waters, P., Mathews, IZ., McCormick, CM. (October 2009). Effects of social stress on cell proliferation and survival in the adolescent rat dentate gyrus. Poster to be presented at the annual Society for Neuroscience Conference, Chicago, IL.