Sarah M. Turgeon

Amherst College

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Amherst College

Neuroscience

Department Of Psychology

NoneSarah M. Turgeon is currently serving as a Amherst College faculty at Amherst College.

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Sarah M. Turgeon

Amherst College

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behavioral neuroscience neuroscience behavioural pharmacology pharmacology psychopharmacology behavioral sciences neuropharmacology neuropsychopharmacology behavioral experiments psychology addiction biology biological psychiatry depression experimental psychology behavioural process psychoactive drugs neurophysiology cognitive neuroscience anxiety disorders pharmacological research experimental pharmacology psychoneuroendocrinology behavioral research brain science dopamine delayed effects voluntary sucrose consumption child psychology behavioral disorders affective neuroscience neurochemistry gender development sex differences stress hormones psychotropic medication experimental psychopathology amphetamine-induced behavior adolescent caffeine exposure chronic caffeine adolescent rats experimental child psychology addictive behaviors functional foods behavioral nutrition pharmacotherapy applied pharmacology neuroinflammation brain imaging molecular neurobiology comorbidity neurotransmission experimental analysis of behavior appetite control experimental nutrition pharmacokinetics physiological regulation neurobiological mechanisms reward systems neurotransmitters behavioural physiology behavioral neuroendocrinology video game addiction vision research psychophysics visual function perceptual user interfaces creb phosphorylation fra expression risk factors amphetamine-induced locomotion nucleus accumbens disrupt latent inhibition s free drawings operant performance food reward latent inhibition

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Effects of Caffeine and Stress on Persistence and Performance in an Unsolvable Visual Search Task in Humans. Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental (2025)

behavioural processpsychological sciencevisual functionexperimental psychologyattentionvisual perceptionbehavioral experimentscognitive neuroscienceneurosciencevision researchpsychophysicsbehavioral researchperceptual user interfacesvisual systemapplied cognitive psychologycognitive sciencetask performancevisual science

Anxiety and Depression Associated With Increased Cardiovascular Disease Risk Through Accelerated Development of Risk Factors. JACC Advances (2024)

Giovanni CivieriShady AbohashemSimran S GrewalWesam AldosokyIqra QamarErin HanlonKarmel W ChoiLisa M ShinRachel P RosovskySandeep Chandra BollepalliHui Chong LauAntonis ArmoundasAntonia V SeligowskiSarah M TurgeonRoger K PitmanFrancesco TonaJason H WasfyJordan W SmollerSabino IlicetoJill GoldsteinCatherine GebhardMichael T OsborneAhmed Tawakol

mental healthpublic healthcardiovascular diseasepsychiatrycomorbidityrisk factorsdepressionanxiety disorderspsychology

Anxiety and Depression Increase Cardiovascular Disease Risk by Accelerating the Development of Risk Factors: Effects of Age and Sex. Journal of the American College of Cardiology (2024)

Giovanni CivieriShady AbohashemWesam AldosokyIqra QamarHui Chong LauMaria KhalilLisa ShinRachel RosovskyAntonia SeligowskiSarah TurgeonRoger PitmanJason H. WasfyJill GoldsteinCatherine Simone GebhardMichael Thomas OsborneAhmed A. Tawakol

mental healthpublic healthcardiovascular diseasecardiologypsychiatryageingdepressionpsychology

Chronic Caffeine Decreases Anxiety-Like Behavior in the Marble Burying Task in Adolescent Rats. Behavioural Pharmacology (2024)

behavioural processexperimental psychologybiological psychiatrymarble burying taskbehavioral experimentsbehavioral sciencesaddiction biologystress (biology)adolescent ratsexperimental psychopathologychronic caffeinepsychopharmacologyanxiety disorderspsychology

Genetic Susceptibility to Stress Syndromes Heightens the Risk of Acute Coronary Syndrome Triggered by Socio-Political Stress. Journal of the American College of Cardiology (2024)

Shady AbohashemGiovanni CivieriMaria KhalilWesam AldosokyTaha AhmadNicki NaddafErin HanlonIqra QamarHui Chong LauSarah TurgeonKarmel ChoiFarouc A. JafferJason H. WasfyMichael Thomas OsborneJordan SmollerAhmed A. Tawakol

cardiologysocio-political stressgenetic susceptibilityacute coronary syndromedevelopmental biologysociologymedical geneticsgenetics

Pharmacological Depletion of Serotonin and Norepinephrine With Para-Chlorophenylalanine and Alpha-Methyl-P-Tyrosine Reverses the Antidepressant-Like Effects of Adolescent Caffeine Exposure in the Male Rat. Behavioural Pharmacology (2020)

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Sex and Housing Conditions Modify the Effects of Adolescent Caffeine Exposure on Anxiety-Like and Depressive-Like Behavior in the Rat. Behavioural Pharmacology (2019)

stress hormonesbiological psychiatrybehavioral neuroendocrinologypsychopharmacologydepressive-like behaviorbehavioral disorderspsychiatric researchpsychologyhousing conditionsbehavioral neurosciencepsychoneuroendocrinologyadolescent caffeine exposurebehavioural pharmacologypsychopathologyanxiety disordersbehavioral sciencesbehavioural physiologystress (biology)affective disordersdepression

Chronic Caffeine Produces Sexually Dimorphic Effects on Amphetamine-Induced Behavior, Anxiety and Depressive-Like Behavior in Adolescent Rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior (2016)

amphetamine-induced behaviorbiological psychiatrybehavioral sciencesneuropsychopharmacologybehavioral neuroscienceadolescent ratsbehavioural pharmacologychronic caffeinepsychopharmacologypsychopathologydepressionpsychologyaddictive behaviorspsychoactive drugs

Sex Differences in College Students’ Free Drawings and Their Relationship to 2D: 4d Ratio and Recalled Childhood Play Behavior. Archives of Sexual Behavior (2013)

childhood play behaviorhuman behaviorvideo game addictiongender developmentbehavioral sciencesdevelopmental psychologycognitive developmentsexual behaviorchild psychologysex differenceschild developmentpsychology

The Effects of Phencyclidine (Pcp) on Anxiety-Like Behavior in the Elevated Plus Maze and the Light–Dark Exploration Test Are Age Dependent, Sexually Dimorphic, and Task Dependent. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior (2011)

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