Dr. Craig H Kinsley

Professor of Psychology
103 Richmond Hall
Office: (804) 289-8132
Fax: (804) 287-1905

http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~ckinsley/

Teaching:
Behavioral Neuroscience

Research:
The neurobiology and neurochemistry underlying social behaviors in animals, particularly the effects of reproductive experience (pregnancy, lactation and exposure to offspring) on the maternal and paternal brain.

Education:
Ph.D. - University at Albany, State University of New York

Selected Publications:

Kelly G. Lambert and Craig H. Kinsley. Clinical Neuroscience: A Neurobiological Approach to Clinical Psychology. New York: Worth Publishers, 2005.  

Keyser, L., Stafisso-Sandoz, G., Gerecke, K., Jasnow, A., Nightingale, L.,  Lambert, K.G., Gatewood, J. & Kinsley, C.H. (2001)  Alterations of medial preoptic area neurons following pregnancy and pregnancy-like steroidal treatment in the rat.  Brain Research Bulletin, 55, 737-745.  

Kinsley, C.H. (2001)  Book review of:  The Domestic Cat:  The Biology of its Behaviour.  Edited by Dennis C. Turner & Patrick Bateson (2nd ed.).  Cambridge University Press, 2000.  For:  Science, Books and Films (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 37, 152. 
 
Lambert, K.G., Quadros, P., Gerecke, K., Doudera, E., Jasnow, A.M. & Kinsley, C.H. (2000)  Chronic stress increases density of GFAP-immunoreactive astrocytes in the rat hippocampus.  Stress, 3, 275-284.

Kinsley, C.H. (1999)  Book review of:  Sensory Exotica:  A World Beyond Human Experience, by Howard C. Hughes.  MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.  For:  Science, Books and Films (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 36, 169.
 
Kinsley, C.H., Madonia, L., Gifford, G.W., Tureski, K., Griffin, G.R., Lowry, C., Williams, J., Collins, J., McLearie, H. & Lambert, K.G. (1999)  Motherhood improves learning and memory:  Neural activity in rats is enhanced by pregnancy and the demands of rearing offspring.  Nature, 402, 137-138.

Miller, S., Mueller, E., Gifford, G. & Kinsley, C.H. (1999)  Prenatal stress-induced modifications of neuronal nitric oxide synthase in amygdala and medial preoptic area are associated with reductions in sexual and aggressive behavior in the rat.  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 877, 760-763.  

Lambert, K.G., Quadros, P., Aurentz, C., Lowry, C. & Kinsley, C.H. (1999)  Does chronic activity-stress produce hippocampal atrophy and basal forebrain lesions?  A preliminary analysis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 877, 742-746.