Judith E. Grisel
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NIH award helps fund a study on Ethanol Sensitivity in Beta-Endorphin Deficient Mice
Judith Grisel was raised on the East Coast and
received her B.A. from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, but
her graduate and post-doctoral work were done in the West. She received
her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Colorado in Boulder,
where she studied environmental influences toward drug abuse in the
behavioral neuroscience laboratory of Steven Maier. In order to develop
a more well-rounded knowledge of the biological basis of drug and
alcohol abuse, Dr. Grisel did a three-year post-doc at the Oregon
Health Sciences University, where she studied genetic contributions to
drug abuse at the Portland Addiction Research Center, under the
direction of John Crabbe. At Furman, she focuses on the interaction
between environmental and genetic factors that lead to a propensity to
abuse drugs. In particular, she studies the role of opioid peptides
(e.g., endorphin) in addiction.
Dr.
Grisel’s dissertation investigated the biochemical basis for learned
tolerance to morphine and was published in Pharmacology, Biochemistry
and Behavior and Psychopharmacology. Papers arising from her
post-doctoral work on the genetic substrates of amphetamine
sensitivity, characterization of a new morphine-like brain chemical,
and use of transgenic mice in the study of alcoholism have been
published in Journal of Neuroscience, Neuroreport, Neuroscience, and
Brain Research. Dr. Grisel has received two NIH grants during her
tenure at Furman to help pursue these interests. She is also committed
to a greater understanding of the ways that females and males differ in
terms of their neurobiology and behavior. Research continues to be one
of her highest goals, and Dr. Grisel is most excited about being at
Furman because of the unique and extensive opportunities it affords for
collaboration with students in this endeavor.
Dr.
Grisel married Jimmy Snow from Pumpkintown, SC in 2000 and has become a
stepparent to his two boys, Oliver and Trey Snow. Their daughter, Maren
Snow, will be five on their wedding anniversary this fall.
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