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Brian Hock, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Coordinator
Psychology Department
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, TN 37044
Office: 223E Clement Hall
Phone: (931) 221-1045
Fax: (931) 221-6267
Email: hockb@apsu.edu
I am originally from Michigan and completed my Bachelor’s at
Lake
Superior State University.
I then moved down to Ohio to attend
Kent State University,
where I completed my Master’s and Ph.D. working on the role of
the ventral hippocampus in learning and memory.
I also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at
Case Western
Reserve University
in the Department of Genetics studying the genetics of
Alzheimer’s disease using mouse models.
I joined the faculty at APSU starting in the fall of 2005.
I teach General Psychology, Statistics for the Behavioral
Sciences, Research Methods, Applied Psychopharmacology,
Physiological Psychology and Learning and Motivation.
When I am not “working” I enjoy spending time with my family,
being outdoors either hiking,
scuba diving,
hunting or volunteering at
Walden’s Puddle,
a wildlife rehabilitation center in Joelton, TN.
I am also a fan of the
Cleveland Browns,
which occupies the rest of my free time.
Research Interests
My current research interests involve investigating novel
methods of behaviorally measuring addiction in rodents. Recent
findings from our lab (Miller, Littlejohn Diaz, & Hock, 2008)
suggest that using a drug of addiction (i.e. caffeine) paired
with a substance (apple juice) that previously made a rat sick,
will not prevent the rat from still consuming that mixture, even
though the apple juice previously made them ill.
This concept relies on the principle of Conditioned Taste
Aversion (CTA) or the Garcia effect, aptly named after
John
Garcia, who discovered the method. One significant advantage
to using CTA to measure addiction in animals is that it can be
used to investigate the 7th criteria of the
DSM-IV-TR’s definition of dependency, continued use of the drug
despite adverse effects.
This is important to the field of psychopharmacology as
it provides an additional measure for researchers to use,
especially when tolerance and withdrawal effects are most
measured.
Publications and Presentations
Conference Abstracts with Students
Miller*, K., Littlejohn Diaz*, J. & Hock, B.J. (2009).
The role of the ventral
hippocampus in learning and memory.
Fourth Annual
Research Forum, APSU, p. 4.
Schmidt, C.J., Schmidt*, R.J. & Hock, B.J. (2008).
A novel behavioral paradigm to measure addiction in rats.
Society for
Neuroscience Abstracts, 38.
Petriello*, M.C., Hock, B.J. and Lamb, B.T. (2003).
Learning and memory impairments between different mouse
models of Alzheimer's disease. The Second Annual Senior
Capstone Fair, Case Western Reserve University
Hock, B.J., Price*, B., & Bunsey, M.D. (1999). The role of the
ventral hippocampus in learning and memory.
Society for
Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 29.
Selected Publications
Schmidt, C.J., Schmidt*, R.J. & Hock, B.J. (2008).
A novel behavioral paradigm to measure addiction in rats.
Journal
of Behavioral and Neuroscience Research,
6 (Fall), 15-22.
Hock, B.J., Lattal, K.M., Shapiro Kulnane, L., Abel, T.
& Lamb, B.T. (Submitted). Pathology dependent and
independent memory deficits in yeast artificial
chromosome
amyloid precursor protein transgenic mice.
Hock, Shapiro Kulnane*, L., Lehman, E.J.H., Hock, B.J.,
Tsuchiya, K.D. & Lamb, B.T. (2002). Rapid and Efficient
Detection of Transgene Homozygosity by FISH of Mouse
Fibroblasts.
Mammalian Genetics, 13(4), 223-226.
Hock, B.J. & Lamb, B.T. (2001). Transgenic mouse models of
Alzheimer's Disease.
Trends in Genetics, 17(10): S7-S12.
Hock, B.J. & Bunsey, M.D. (1998). Differential effects of dorsal
and ventral hippocampal lesions.
Journal of
Neuroscience, 18(17): 7027-7032.
*Denotes undergraduate students
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