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Rodney D. Clark
Chair of the Neuroscience Program
Associate Professor of Psychology
Mailing Address:
Psychology Dept., Allegheny College
Meadville PA 16335
Phone: 814-332-4960
Fax: 814-332-2789
E-mail: rclark@allegheny.edu
Office: Carnegie 021
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Rodney received a B.A. degree from California State University Long
Beach in 1980, an M.S. from Western Michigan University in 1988, and
a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University in 1990. His M.S. and Ph.D.
research was in the experimental analysis of behavior with a specialty
in behavioral pharmacology. Rod's primary teaching and research interests
are neurobehavioral pharmacology, operant conditioning, drugs and social
issues and drug abuse in both young adult and geriatric populations.
He teaches the Psychology of Learning, Introduction to Behavioral Pharmacology,
Current Issues in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Behavioral
Mechanisms of Drug Action, Biomedical Ethics, and Drugs and Society.
Rodney's current research interests concern the behavioral pharmacology
of drug interactions with motivative variables. At present, Rodney is
currently conducting research examining the relationship between excitatory
amino acids (EAA), such as NMDA, and unlearned motivative variables.
NMDA as well as other EAA's produce a marked increase in water consumption
These studies specifically examine how water-reinforced operant behavior
maybe maintained by injections of NMDA without water deprivation. His
hobbies include restoration of "sixties muscle cars", football, bowling,
golf, and simulation wargames.
