Dr. Terrence Deak

Professor
Department of Psychology
Binghamton University
United States of America

Professor Neurology
Biography

Dr. Terrence Deak began his research as an undergraduate in the laboratory of Dr. Jaak Panksepp at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. At the time, many of their studies were geared toward understanding developmental aspects of social processes, an issue that has resurfaced in some of our current research. Afterwards, He received an MA and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder under the direction of Dr. Steven Maier and Dr. Linda Watkins. Their joint laboratory remains a highly integrative lab that addresses fundamental issues ranging from stress reactivity, to complex behavioral processes, all the way down to molecular signaling cascades involved in enhanced pain states. During his time in Boulder, He also worked extensively with Dr. Robert Spencer and Dr. Moni Fleshner (Dept of Integrative Physiology).

Research Intrest

Stress responsive systems, neuroendocrinology, neural-immune interactions, behavior.

List of Publications
Hueston CM, Deak T. On the time course, generality, and regulation of plasma progesterone release in male rats by stress exposure. Endocrinology. 2014 Sep 1;155(9):3527-37.
Doremus-Fitzwater TL, Gano A, Paniccia JE, Deak T. Male adolescent rats display blunted cytokine responses in the CNS after acute ethanol or lipopolysaccharide exposure. Physiology & behavior. 2015 Sep 1;148:131-44.
Deak T, Quinn M, Cidlowski JA, Victoria NC, Murphy AZ, Sheridan JF. Neuroimmune mechanisms of stress: sex differences, developmental plasticity, and implications for pharmacotherapy of stress-related disease. Stress. 2015 Jul 4;18(4):367-80.