Dr. Roger Buchanan

Professor of Neurobiology

BA - 1985 - Biology, University of Delaware
PhD - 1990 - Cell Physiology, University of Delaware

Office: ABI 211
Phone: (870) 680-4297
Email: rbuck@astate.edu

Animal Neurobiology

    * Effects of potential neuroactive compounds in the environment.
    * Characterizing the effects of continuous nicotine exposure (using implanted osmotic pumps) and exposure to tobacco smoke on brain responses in rats.

Dr. Roger Buchanan relocated to Jonesboro and Arkansas State University from The National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD) in 1992. From 1990 to 1992 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Lab for Neurobiology at the National Institutes of Health (NINDS). In 1992 he was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neurobiology at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Dr. Buchanan and collaborators at UAMS, (Drs. Robert Skinner and Edgar Garcia-Rill) have putatively identified a novel site of action for nicotine. They, along with postdoc Dr. Nori Mamiya, presented a poster “Novel Site of Action for Nicotine: Inhibition of Cholinergic Pedunculopontine (PPN) Output” at the 33rd Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience held in New Orleans in November, 2003. Additional data will be presented at meetings of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies and the Society for Research of Nicotine and Tobacco.

Curriculum Vitae

Research Laboratory

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