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Dr. Rick Bevins
Room 238, Burnett HallUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0308 email: rbevins1@unl.edu Office phone: (402) 472-1189 As an undergraduate student I studied such topics as reinforcement schedules and timing under the direction of Dr. William Palya at Jacksonville State University. In 1989, I completed my B.S. in Psychology, packed the moving truck, and headed to the Ph.D. program in Neuroscience and Behavior at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst to work with Dr. John Ayres. My research as a graduate student focused on associative learning processes—especially Pavlovian fear conditioning. In the latter part of my graduate training I became interested in pharmacology as a tool for understanding learning processes. To follow this interest, upon receiving my Ph.D. in 1993, I took a post-doctoral position at the University of Kentucky to work with Dr. Michael Bardo. In those 3 years, I received further training in behavioral and neuropharmacology. Perhaps more importantly, I learned that associative processes involving drugs of abuse were in and of themselves an important and intellectually challenging area of research. With this perspective, I joined the Psychology Department faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1996 and established the Behavioral Neuropharmacology Laboratory. Research support over the years has come from NIH, Nebraska Department of Health, and the UNL Research Council. Please see Our Research link for current funding and a more detailed description of ongoing research. I am currently a tenured Professor in the Department of Psychology. I also serve as the Vice Chair for the Department and the Area Director for Biopsychology. Bevins RA, Eurek S, & Besheer J (2005) Timing of conditioned response in a nicotine locomotor conditioning preparation: Manipulations of the temporal arrangement between context cues and drug administration. Behavioural Brain Research, 159, 135-143. Bevins RA (2005) The reference-dose place conditioning procedure yields a graded dose-effect function. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 18, 101-111. Bevins RA & Besheer J (2005) Novelty reward as a measure of anhedonia. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 29, 707-714. Bevins RA, Wilkinson JL, Palmatier MI, Siebert HL, & Wiltgen SM (2006) Characterization of nicotine’s ability to serve as a negative feature in a Pavlovian appetitive conditioning task in rats. Psychopharmacology, 184, 470-481. Wilkinson JL, Palmatier MI, & Bevins RA (2006) Pre-exposure to nicotine alters the subsequent locomotor stimulant effects of bupropion in rats. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 8, 141-146. See Our research for a complete list of publications. 
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