Faculty Fellows
Jeanne M. Wehner
447 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0447
phone: (303) 492-2839
fax: (303) 492-8063
email: wehner@ibg.colorado.edu
website:
http://www.colorado.edu/neuroscienceprogram/
center/people/jeanne_wehner.html
Research Interests:
The genetic and biochemical regulation of sensitivity and tolerance to alcohol, and genes that regulate learning and memory processes.
Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1997-present.
Selected Publications:
1. Booker TK, Butt CM, Wehner JM, Heinemann SF, Collins AC. (2007). Decreased anxiety-like behavior in beta3 nicotinic receptor subunit knockout mice. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 87(1), 146-57. | pubmed abstract |2. Kelso ML, Wehner JM, Collins AC, Scheff SW, Pauly JR. (2006). The pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury in alpha7 nicotinic cholinergic receptor knockout mice. Brain Research, 1083(1), 204-10. | pubmed abstract |
3. Wehner JM, Keller JJ, Keller AB, Picciotto MR, Paylor R, Booker TK, Beaudet A, Heinemann SF, Balogh SA. (2004)
Role of neuronal nicotinic receptors in the effects of nicotine and ethanol on contextual fear conditioning.
Neuroscience, 129(1), 11-24. | pubmed abstract |