RICHARD BODNAR

Title	Professor of Psychology, Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, QC
Area	Neuroanatomy and Behavioral Neuroscience
Ph.D.	City University of New York, 1976
Office	139 Kiely
E-mail	richard.bodnar@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone	718-997-5190

Professional Activities:

Society Memberships:
    Society for Neuroscience
    Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society
    New York Neuropsychology Group
    American Psychological Society
    Eastern Psychological Association
    American Association for the Advancement of Science
    New York Academy of Sciences
    American Pain Society
    Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior

Editorial Advisory Boards:
    Physiology and Behavior
    Nutritional Neuroscience; Associate Editor
    Peptides
    Brain Research

Research Summary:

Since its inception in 1979, our Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory has been pursuing research examining the underlying pharmacology and neuroanatomical sites of action of two major neurobehavioral homeostatic systems: a) Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Food Intake, and b) Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Pain Inhibition. These studies involved different evolving themes over the years that can be summarized into the following major categories with peer-reviewed publications. In the study of Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Food Intake, the following themes have been examined: i) Pharmacology and Neuroanatomy of Conditioned Flavor Preferences, ii) Genetic Variance in Ingestive Responses, iii) Molecular Opioid Manipulations and Ingestive Behavior, iv) Neuroanatomical Mapping Studies of Opioid-induced Feeding, and v) Opioid Receptor Subtypes and Ingestive Behavior. In the study of [Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Pain Inhibition], the following themes have been examined: i) Sex Differences in Opioid-Induced Analgesia, ii) Neuroanatomical Mapping Studies of Opioid-Induced Analgesia, iii) Stress-induced Analgesia, and iv) Non-Opioid Analgesic Responses. Since 2002, I have written the Endogenous Opioids and Behavior Annual Reviews which covers all of the peer-reviewed articles in the field for the previous year as well as providing Other Invited Reviews and Book Chapters.

To accomplish all of this work, I have been fortunate to have had a great number of talented doctoral, masters and undergraduate students working with me.

Note: The Bodnar lab presented five posters at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego with co-authors of three PhD students, 4 Masters students, and 24 undergraduate students. Congratulations!

Recent Publications:

    Bernal S, K Touzani, M Gerges, Y Abayev, A Sclafani and RJ Bodnar. Examination of naltrexone effects in the nucleus accumberns shell and core upon flavor-flavor preferences conditioned by fructose and flavor-nutrient preferences conditioned by intragastric glucose in rats. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 95: 56-62, 2010.

    Bodnar, RJ. Endogenous opiates and behavior: 2009. Peptides 31: 2325-2359, 2010.

    Bodnar, RJ and B Kest. Sex differences in opioid analgesia, hyperalgesia, tolerance and withdrawal: central mechanisms of action and roles of gonadal hormones. Horm. Behav. 58: 72-81, 2010.

    Cataldo G, J Lovric, C-C Chen, C Pytte and RJ Bodnar. Ventromedial and medial preoptic hypothalamic ibotenic acid lesions potentiate systemic morphine analgesia in female, but not male rats. Behav Brain Res 214: 301-316, 2010.

    Dym, CT, V Bae, T Kraft, Y Yakubov, A Winn, A Sclafani and RJ Bodnar. Genetic variance contributes to dopamine and opioid receptor antagonist-induced inhibition of Intralipid (Fat) intake in inbred and outbred mouse strains. Brain Res. 1316: 51-61, 2010.