Justin W. Kenney, B.A. & B.S.

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Bio: Justin joined the BBC in 2005 and currently works in the lab of Dr. Tom Gould. He received his BS in physics and BA in philosophy from Case Western Reserve University. Justin’s current research interests involve understanding how nicotine alters learning and memory processes at both a systems and molecular level with implications for treating nicotine addiction.

Representative publications/presentations

Kenney, J.W. & Gould, T. J. (in press). Nicotine enhances contextual learning but not context-shock associative learning. Behavioral Neuroscience.

Davis, J.A., Kenney, J.W. & Gould, T.J. (2007). Hippocampal alpha4beta2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor involvement in the enhancing effect of acute nicotine on contextual fear conditioning. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 10870-7.

Kenney, J.W., Florian, C., Portugal, G.S., Abel, T., Gould, T.J. (2008) Involvement of jun-N-terminal kinase in the enhancement of learning and memory by nicotine. Poster Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Portland, OR.