RESEARCH & FACULTY

Stefany Primeaux,  Adjunct Assistant Professor Department/Laboratory: Joint Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism Program
Phone: (225) 763-2777	Fax: (225) 763-2525
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EDUCATION

Louisiana State University, Psychology, B.S. 1994
Southeastern Louisiana University, Psychology, M.A. 1996
University of Georgia, Psychology, Ph.D., 2000

RESEARCH INTERESTS

1) factors that affect the intake of dietary fat 2) effects of dietary fat on central and peripheral nervous systems 3) Neurotrauma and nutrition 4) comorbidity of obesity and depression 5) anxiety-related behaviors

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1.Primeaux, S.D. (2011). QRFP in Female Rats: Effects on High Fat Food Intake and Hypothalamic Prepro-QRFP Expression across the Estrous Cycle. Peptides, 32 (6), 1270-1275.
2.Thanos, P.K., Cho, J., Kim, R., Michaelides, M., Primeaux, S.D., Bray, G.A., Wang, G.J., & Volkow, N.D. (2011) Bromocriptine increased operant responding for high fat food but decreased chow intake in both obesity-prone and obesity-resistant rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 217(1), 165-170.
3.King, B.M., Primeaux, S.D., Zadeh, M.L., de Gruiter, J.E., Plant, J.D., Ferguson, A.V. & Bray, G.A. (2011). Olfactory bulbectomy impairs the feeding response to 2-deoxy-D-glucose in rats. Brain Research, 1367, 207-212.
4.Thanos, P.K., Kim, R., Cho, J., Michaelides, M., Anderson, B.J., Robinson, J.K., Primeaux, S.D., Bray, G.A., Wang, G.J., & Volkow, N.D. (2010) Obesity resistant S5B rats showed greater cocaine conditioned place preference than the obesity prone OM rats. Physiology & Behavior, 101(5), 713-718.
5.Primeaux, S. D., Barnes, M.J. Braymer, H.D. & Bray, G.A. (2010). Sensitivity to the satiating effects of Exendin 4 is decreased in obesity-prone Osborne-Mendel rats compared to obesity-resistant S5B/Pl rats. International Journal of Obesity, 34(9), 1427-1433.
6.Primeaux, S.D., Blackmon, C., Barnes, M.J., Braymer, H.D. & Bray, G.A. (2008) Central administration of the RFamide peptides, QRFP-26 and QRFP-43, increases high fat food intake in rats. Peptides, 29(11), 1994-2000. PMCID:PMC2610851
7.Primeaux, S.D., Tong, M. & Holmes, G.M. (2007) Effects of spinal cord injury on body weight and body composition in rats fed a standard chow diet. American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 293(3), 1102-1109.
8.Primeaux, S.D., Barnes, M.J., & Bray, G.A. (2007). Olfactory bulbectomy increases food intake and hypothalamic neuropeptide Y in obesity-prone but not obesity-resistant rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 180(2), 190-6. PMCID: PMC1978179
9.Primeaux, S.D., Wilson, S.P., Bray, G.A., York, D.A. & Wilson, M.A. (2006). Overexpression of neuropeptide Y in the central nucleus of the amygdala decreases ethanol self-administration in “anxious” rats. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 30 (5), 791-801.
10.Primeaux, S.D., York, D.A., & Bray, G.A. (2006). Neuropeptide Y administration into the amygdala alters high fat food intake. Peptides 27 (7), 1644-1651.
11.Primeaux, S.D., Wilson, S.P. Cusick, M.C., York, D.A. & Wilson, M.A. (2005) Effects of altered amygdalar neuropeptide Y expression on anxiety-related behaviors. Neuropsychopharmacology, 9, 1589-1597.
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