RICHARD BODNAR

Title	Professor, Acting Dean of Research and Graduate Studies
Area	Neuroanatomy and Behavioral Neuroscience
Ph.D.	City University of New York, 1976
Office	240 Razran and 139 Kiely
E-mail	richard.bodnar@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone	718-997-3543 718-997-5191

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 Description:

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.

Recent Publications:

   Touzani, K, RJ Bodnar and A Sclafani. A role of the lateral hypothalamic dopamine D1 receptors in intragastric glucose-conditioned flavor preferences in rats. Neurobiol. Learning Mem. 92: 464-467, 2009.

    Touzani K., Bodnar, R.J., and Sclafani, A. Dopamine D1-like receptor antagonism in amygdala impairs the acquisition of glucose-conditioned flavor preferences in rats. Eur J Neurosci, 30, 289-298, 2009.

    Bernal S, P Miner, Y Abayev, E Kandova, M Gerges, K Touzani, A Sclafani and RJ Bodnar. Role of amygdala dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in the acquisition and expression of fructose-conditioned flavor preferences in rats. Behav Brain Res. 205: 183-190, 2009.

    Hadjimarkou, MM, C Abbadie, L Kasselman, YX Pan, GW Pasternak and RJ Bodnar. Changes in mMOR-1C-like immunoreactivity following food restriction and food deprivation in rats. Synapse 63: 585-597, 2009.

    Dym, CT, A Pinhas, M Robak, A Sclafani and RJ Bodnar. Genetic variance contributes to dopamine D1 and D2 antagonist-induced inhibition of sucrose intake in inbred and outbred mouse strains. Brain Res. 1257: 40-52, 2009.