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Dr. Day received her Ph.D. in 1994 from the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Cambridge, England. She spent 5 years as a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Huda Akil at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Michigan, where she became interested in the neural circuitry involved in stress responsiveness. She joined the Psychology Department at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder fall 1999.

Dr. Day is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Director of the neuroscience major. She is no longer active in research.

Selected Publications:

Day, H.E.W., Badiani, A., Uslaner, J.M., Oates, M.M., Vittoz, N.M., Robinson, T.E., Watson, S.J. and Akil, H. (2001) Environmental novelty differentially affects c-fos mRNA expression induced by amphetamine or cocaine in subregions of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdala. J. Neurosci., 21, 732 Ì 740

Day, H.E.W., Curran, E.J., Watson S.J. and Akil, H. (1999) Distinct neurochemical populations in the rat central nucleus of the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: evidence for their selective activation by interleukin-1beta. J. Comp. Neurol., 413, 113-128

Day, H.E.W., Campeau, S, Watson, S.J. and Akil, H. (1999) Expression of alpha-1b adrenoceptor mRNA in corticotropin-releasing hormone-containing cells of the rat hypothalamus and its regulation by corticosterone. J. Neurosci., 19, 10098-10106.