Mary Meagher, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Office: 281 Psychology Building
email: M-Meagher@tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 845-2564
Lab: (979) 845-0482
Fax: (979) 845-4727
Web: http://Meagherlab.tamu.edu

Research Interests

• Psychoneuroimmunology: Impact of stress on CNS infection and demyelination
• Pain
• Illness behaviors
• Neural and psychological mechanisms of pain modulation

Education

Ph. D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1989)

Recent Publications

NOTE: * indicates graduate and undergraduate co-authors

*Rhudy, J. L., & Meagher, M. W. (2000). Fear and anxiety: Divergent effects on thermal pain thresholds in humans. Pain, 84, 65-75.

Welsh, C. J. R., *Campbell, T., *Sieve, A., **Scott, B., Deladorodriguez, M., Storts, R., & Meagher, M. W. (2000). The effects of restraint stress on the acute and chronic phases of Theiler’s virus infection. Journal of Neurovirology.

*Crown, E. D., *King, T. E., Grau, J. W., & Meagher, M. W. (2000). Shock-induced hyperalgesia: IV. The role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, the basolateral and central amygdaloid nuclei. Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 561-573.

Meagher, M. W., *Arnau, R. C., & *Rhudy, J. L. (2001). Pain and emotion: Effects of affective picture modulation. Psychosomatic Medicine, 63, 79-90.

*Arnau, R. A., Meagher, M. W., Norris, M. P., & Bramson, R. (2001). Psychometric evaluation of the BDI-II with primary care medical patients. Health Psychology, 20, 112-119.

* Sieve, A. N., *King, T. E., Grau, J. W., & Meagher, M. W. (2001). Pain and negative affect: Evidence the inverse benzodiazepine agonist DMCM inhibits pain and learning. Psychopharmacology, 153, 180-190.

*Rhudy, J. L., & Meagher, M. W. (2001). Noise-induced changes in radiant heat pain thresholds: Divergent effects in men and women. Journal of Pain, 2, 57-64.

*Campbell, T., Meagher, M. W., *Sieve, A., *Scott, B., Storts, R., Welsh, T. H., & Welsh, C. J. R. (2001). Effects of restraint stress on the neuropathogenesis of Theiler’s virus-demyelination I. Acute Disease. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 15, 235-254.

Meagher, M. W., * Ferguson, A.R.,**McLemore, S., *King, T. E., *Sieve, A. N., *Crown, E. D., & Grau, J. W. (2001). The generality of stress-induced hyperalgesia. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 27, 219-238.

*Rhudy, J. L., & Meagher, M. W. (2003). Individual differences in emotional reaction to shock determines whether hypoalgesia is observed. Pain Medicine.

Welsh, C.J.R., *Sieve, A., *Dean, D., Storts, R., Welsh, T.H. and Meagher, M.W. (in press). Effect of restraint stress on the neuropathogenesis of Theiler's virus infection II: NK cell function and cytokine levels in acute disease. Brain Behavior and Immunity

*Rhudy, J. L., & Meagher, M. W. (in press). Fear and Anxiety: II. Effects on an evaluative measure of human pain. Pain.

*Johnson, R.R., Storts, R., Welsh, T.H., Welsh, C.J.R. and Meagher, M.W. (in press) Social stress alters the severity of acute Theiler’s virus infection. J. Neuroimmunology.

Current Funding

Life Sciences Task Force, Program of Excellence in Life Science Training Grant, Texas A&M (PI). Recovery of Function Graduate Training Program, 6/03-6/04, $187,000.

NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, RO1, Co-Principal Investigator with Jane Welsh (PI), Stress effects on an animal model of autoimmune disease, 4/1/02-3/31/06, $1,531,593.00.

NIH/National Institute of Aging, RO1, Co-Investigator with Griffith (PI) Physiology of Cholinergic Basal Forebrain Neurons, 10/01/03-09/31/08, $1,455,000.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Co-Principal Investigator with Jane Welsh (PI), "The effects of stress the neuropathogenesis of Theiler's virus infection", 9/30/99-8/31/02, $312,997.

NIH/NIMH RO1 Grant, Co-Principal Investigator with Jim Grau (PI), "Sensitization: Behavioral properties & neural mechanisms", 12/96-11/00, $335,591 .

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