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Adriana Uruena-Agnes
Associate Professor of Instruction and Coordinator of Undergraduate Affairs
CONTACT
Office: PCD 4133
Phone: 813/974-3187
Email
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EDUCATION
- Ph.D., University of South Florida Tampa
- M.A., Indiana University Bloomington B.A., University of South Florida Tampa
TEACHING
Drugs and Behavior, Physiological Psychology, Graduate Instructional Methods, Introduction to Psychological Science
RESEARCH
Current research interests include utilizing the neuropsychopharmacology approach to elucidate the neural mechanisms and risk factors associated with the development, expression, and persistence of substance and polysubstance abuse.
SPECIALTY AREA
CNS (Neuroscience)
Selected JOURNAL ARTICLES
Bernstein, D. A., Cameron, E. L., Khanna, M. M., McGee, J., Smith, E. I., Bihun, J. T., McBride, E., Uruena-Agnes, A. R., Stanley, C. M., & Lamana-Finn, K. (2023). Misconceptions about psychology after taking introductory psychology. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000374
Badanich, K.A., Fakih, M.E., Gurina, T.S., Roy, E.K., Hoffman, J.L., Uruena-Agnes, A.R., Kirstein, CL. (2016). Reversal learning and experimenter-administered chronic intermittent ethanol exposure in male rats. Psychopharmacology, 233(19), 3615-3626. doi:10.1007/s00213-016-4395-6 PMID: 27518574
HONORS AND AWARD
Social and Behavioral Sciences and Human Services Featured Faculty
Eve Levine Graduate Student Teaching Award
Dean's Teaching Award
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Uruena-Agnes, A. R., Badanich, K., and Kirstein, C. L (in prep). Ethanol attenuation of cocaine place preference in adult but not adolescent rats: The role of NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801. Psychopharmacology.
Uruena-Agnes, A. R (2017). SPC-USF Partner for Internship Program. Blue and White: St. Petersburg College.
Uruena-Agnes, A. R (2014). Developing an Animal Model of Polysubstance Abuse in Adolescence: The Role of NMDA Receptors in Alcohol/Cocaine Reward. Graduate Theses and Dissertations. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5440