Department of Psychology

George Taylor, Ph.D.

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Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Missouri-St. Louis
442 Stadler Hall
8001 Natural Bridge Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
Phone: (314)-516-5475
Fax: (314) 516-5392
Email: geot@umsl.edu
http://www.umsl.edu/~psygtayl/
Curriculum Vitae

I am currently a professor of psychology and the director of M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Behavioral Neuroscience. I received my Ph.D. from the Univ. of New Mexico in animal psychology and did postdoctoral work in neurophysiology at Rockefeller Univ. in New York City. I also have held appointments as a guest scientist at Bordeaux (France) Medical Univ. in neuroendocrinology, at the German Cancer Research Center - Heidelberg in experimental pathology, and Tokyo Univ. in biology.
Research in my laboratory, staffed by a dozen graduate student and undergraduate research assistants, employs animal models for the study of various topics in behavioral neuroscience, including neurotransmitter changes under chronic typical and atypical psychotherapeutic drugs. But, my first love is the interaction of steroid hormones, brain and behavior. For example, we have ongoing experiments on the influence of estrogen on cognitive behaviors and of adrenal precursors of testosterone on sociosexual behaviors.