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Professor of Psychology, Neural Science
Ph.D. 1964, Yale; B.A. 1951, Colorado.
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Research Interests: behavioral analysis of neuronal mechanisms mediating hunger, reward, and pain; psychoimmunology and stress; aesthetics.
Selected Works:
Simson, P. E., and Coons, E. E. (1989). Lateral hypothalamic stimulation can augment or attenuate Nucleus Gigantocellularis escape: Evidence for appetite-associated aversion amelioration. Behavioral Neuroscience 103, 612-620.
Carden, S. E., and Coons, E. E. (1989). Diazepam modulates lateral hypothalamic self-stimulation but not stimulation-escape in rats. Brain Research 483, 327-334.
Miserendino, M. J. D., and Coons, E. E. (1989). Hedonic interactions of medial prefrontal cortex and Nucleus Reticularis Gigantocellularis. Brain Research 483, 233-250.
Porrino, L. J., Coons, E. E., and MacGregor, B. (1983). Two types of medial hypothalamic inhibition of lateral hypothalamic reward. Brain Research 277, 269-282.
Carr, K. D., and Coons, E. E. (1982). Rats self-administer nonrewarding brain stimulation to ameliorate aversion. Science 215, 1516-1517.
Coons, E. E., and White, H. A. (1977). Tonic properties of orosensation and the modulation of intracranial self-stimulation: The CNS weighting of external and internal factors governing reward. In Tonic Functions of Afferent Systems, eds. Wenzel, B., and Ziegler, P. (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 290, 158-179).
Coons, E. E., Schupf, N., and Ungerleider, L. G. (1976). Uses of double-pulse stimulation behaviorally to infer refractoriness, summation, convergence, and transmitter characteristics of hypothalamic reward systems. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 90, 317-342.
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