Sherry McKee PhD Clin
Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Yale Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory
Departments & Organizations
Cancer Prevention and Control
Psychiatry: Connecticut Mental Health Center | CENTURY | Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory | Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) on Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women's Health | Stress & Addiction Clinical Research Program | Law and Psychiatry | Psychology Section: Division of Substance Abuse | Division of Addictions | Division of Women's Behavioral Health Research | Yale Translational Center to Develop Gender-Sensitive Treatment for Tobacco Dependence
Research Interests
Behavioral pharmacology; Medication development; Medication screening; Alcohol; Tobacco; nAChRs; Gender differences more...
Education
- Ph.D. Clin, University of Western Ontario, 1999
Selected Publications
- McKee SA, Sinha R, Weinberger AH, Sofuoglu M, Harrison EL, Lavery M, Wanzer J. (2011) Stress decreases the ability to resist smoking and potentiates smoking intensity and reward. J Psychopharmacol. 25, 490-502.
- Ashare RL, Sinha R, Lampert R, Weinberger AH, Anderson GM, Lavery ME, Yanagisawa K, McKee SA. (2011) Blunted vagal reactivity predicts stress-precipitated tobacco smoking. Psychopharmacology [Epub ahead of print]
- McKee SA, Harrison ELR, O’Malley SS, Krishnan-Sarin S, Shi J, Tetrault JM, Picciotto M, Petrakis IL, Estevez N, Balchunas E. (2009). Varenicline reduces alcohol self-administration in heavy drinking smokers. Biological Psychiatry, 66, 185-90.
