Professor
Department of Psychology
Binghamton University
United States of America
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).
Stress responsive systems, neuroendocrinology, neural-immune interactions, behavior.