Research Interests
- Psychopharmacology
- Developmental aspects of drug addiction and treatment
- Developmental neurobehavioral disorders and treatment
- Ontogeny and neural basis of memory systems
Education
B.S. in Psychology & Neuroscience (Hons) w/ Distinction - University of Delaware, 2009-2013
M.S. in Neuroscience - University of Delaware, 2013-2014
Ph.D. in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014-present
Grants
American Psychological Foundation and the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology
- Peter and Malina James & Dr. Louis P. James Legacy Scholarship - 2018
Awards and Honors
2012 Supply and Expense Grant Award, Undergraduate Research Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2013 Donald W. Harward Fellows Grant Award, Undergraduate Research Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2014 Student Travel Award, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA
2013 Graduate Student Travel Award, Psychology Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2013 Professional Development Award, Office of Graduate and Professional Education, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2014 Student Travel Award, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.
2018 Student Travel Award, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA
2018 Graduate College Conference Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2019 Illinois Mentoring Certificate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2017, '18, '19 Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (Outstanding Rating), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2019 Conference Travel Award for Early Career Investigators, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, San Antonio, TX
2019 Student Travel Award, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL
Courses Taught
PSYC 311 Behavioral Neuroscience Lab:
Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Westbrook, S.R., Hankosky, E.R., Dwyer, M.R., & Gulley, J.M. (2018). Age and sex differences in behavioral flexibility, sensitivity to reward value, and risky decision-making. Behavioral Neuroscience 132(2): 75-87.
Ramsaran, A.I., Westbrook, S.R., & Stanton, M.E. (2016). Ontogeny of object-in-context recognition in the rat. Behav Brain Res 298(Pt A): 37-47.
Westbrook, S.R., Brennan, L.E., & Stanton, M.E. (2014). Ontogeny of object recognition vs. object location performance in the rat: Acquisition and retention effects. Dev Psychobio 56(7): 1492-506.
Jablonski, S.A., Schreiber, W.B., Westbrook, S.R., Brennan, L.E., & Stanton, M.E. (2013). Determinants of novel object and location recognition during development.
Recent Publications
Westbrook, S.R., Kang, M., Sherrill, L.K., O’Hearn, D., Krishnamani, T., & Gulley, J.M. (2018). Sex differences in adolescent ethanol drinking to behavioral intoxication. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 110 (1): 54-62.
Hankosky, E.R., Westbrook, S.R., Haake, R.M., Willing, J., Raetzman, L.T., Juraska, J.M., & Gulley, J.M. (2018). Age- and sex-dependent effects of methamphetamine on cognitive flexibility and 5-HT2C receptor localization in the orbitofrontal cortex of Sprague-Dawley rats. Behavioural Brain Research 349: 16-24.
Hankosky, E.R., Westbrook, S.R., Haake, R.M., Marinelli, M., & Gulley, J.M. (2018). Reduced sensitivity to reinforcement in adolescent compared to adult Sprague-Dawley rats of both sexes. Psychopharmacology 235(3): 861-871.
