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Degree: Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989

Specialization: Biological Psychology

Clinical Internship:Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical School.(1998-.1999)

Specialization: Behavioral Medicine; Health Psychology

Clinical and Research Interests

• Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology
• Psychopharmacology and behavioral pharmacology
• personality and health

Courses Taught: Graduate

• Biological Basis of Behavior/ Introduction to Neuropsychology
• Health Psychology
• Advanced Psychopathology
• Psychopharmacology
• M.A. Practicum and Internship Seminar

Selected Publications / Presentations

Wickett, A., Essman, W., Beck-Jennings, J., and Lysaker, P. (in press). Cluster B and C personality traits, symptom correlates and treatment utilization in post acute schizophrenia. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Rush, C.R.; Essman, W. D.; Simpson, C.A.; Baker, R. (2001). Reinforcing and subject-rated effects of methilpfenidate and d-amphetamine in non-drug-abusing humans. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 21:273-286.

Vanecek, S.A., Essman, W.D. and Woods, J.H. (1998). Discriminative stimulus characteristics of BMY 14802 in pigeons. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 284, 1-9.

Kung, M.P., Stevenson, D.A., Plossl, K., Meegalla, S.K., Beckwith, A., Essman, W.D., Mu, M., and Kung, H.F. (1997)[99mTc]TRODAT-1: a novel technetium-99m complex as a dopaminetransporter imaging agent. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 24, 372-80.

Kung, M.-P., Essman, W.D., Frederick, D., Meegalla, S., Goodman, M., Mu, M., Lucki, I. and Kung, H. (1995). IPT: A novel iodinated ligand for the CNS dopamine transporter.Synapse, 20, 316-324.

Essman, W.D., McGonigle, P. and Lucki, I. (1995). Variations in the behavioral responses to apomorphine in different strains of rats. Behavioural Pharmacology, 6, 4-15.

Essman, W.D., Singh, A. and Lucki, I. (1994). Serotonergic properties of cocaine: Effects on a 5HT2 receptor-mediated behavior and on extracellular concentrations of serotonin and dopamine. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 49,, 107-113.

Essman, W.D., McGonigle, P. and Lucki, I. (1993). Anatomical differentiation within the nucleus accumbens of the locomotor stimulatory actions of selective dopamine agonists and d-amphetamine. Psychopharmacology, 112, 233-241.

Essman, W.D. and Lucki, I. (1993). Animal behavioral approaches. In: Biological Bases of Brain Function and Disease, A. Frazer, P. Molinoff and A. Winokur (Eds), pp. 241-260. New York: Raven Press.

Woods, J.H., Bertalmio, A.J., Young, A.M., Essman, W.D. and Winger, G. (1988). Receptor mechanisms of opioid drug discrimination. In: Transduction Mechanisms of Drug Stimuli, F.C. Colpaert and R.L. Balster (Eds). Psychopharmacology Series 4: 95-106. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.