John F. Neumaier M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
R&T 303C Harborview Medical Center
325 Ninth Ave., Box 359911
Seattle, WA 98104
tel: 206-341-5803  fax: 206-341-5804
neumaier@u.washington.edu
http://depts.washington.edu/mnsl/

In February 2005 Dr. John Neumaier was named an Associate Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute and will oversee the ADAI Small Grants Program. Prior to that, he had served as a reviewer for the Small Grants program for serveral years.

Dr. Neumaier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and head of the Division of Neurosciences within that department. He studied biology at Reed College in Portland, and received his medical and graduate training at the University of Washington. Dr. Neumaier directs the Molecular Neurosciences laboratory in the Harborview Research and Training Building, where his research focuses on the regulation of serotonin receptors in rat brain in animal models of psychiatric illness.

Recent and Representative Publications:

1. Ferguson SM, Mitchell ES, Neumaier JF. Increased expression of 5-HT(6) receptors in the nucleus accumbens blocks the rewarding but not psychomotor activating properties of cocaine. Biol Psychiatry 2007 (in press). (Pubmed abstract)

2. Hoplight BJ, Vincow ES, Neumaier JF. Cocaine increases 5-HT1B mRNA in rat nucleus accumbens shell neurons. Neuropharmacology 2007;52(2):444-9. (Pubmed abstract)

3. Hiroi R, Neumaier JF. Differential effects of ovarian steroids on anxiety versus fear as measured by field test and fear-potentiated startle. Behav Brain Res 2006;166(1):93-100. (Pubmed abstract)

4. The effects of SB 224289 on anxiety and cocaine-related behaviors in a novel object task. Physiol Behav 2004;84(5):707-14. (Pubmed abstract)

5. Clark MS, Vincow ES, Sexton TJ, Neumaier JF. Increased expression of 5-HT1B receptor in dorsal raphe nucleus decreases fear-potentiated startle in a stress dependent manner. Brain Research 2004;1007(1-2):86-97. (Pubmed abstract)

6. Holtzheimer PE, Neumaier JF. Treatment of acute mania. (Review) CNS Spectr. 2003;8(12):917-20, 924-8. (Pubmed abstract)

7. Neumaier JF. Gene therapy in psychiatric disorders: too early, too complex? (Review) Current Opinion in Pharmacology 2003;3(1):68-72. (Pubmed abstract)

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