Mike Hawkins

Associate Professor

Biological Area

Office: 203 Audubon Hall
Department of Psychology
236 Audubon Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Office Phone: (225) 578-4112

pshawk@lsu.edu

RESEARCH INTEREST

My research focuses on historical developments in neuroscience and on the neuroanatomical and neuropharmacological systems which regulate stress responding in animals.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

• Baumeister, A.A. and Hawkins, M.F. (in press). The role of serendipity in the ontogenesis of modern psychopharmacology. In López-Muñoz F. and Alamo C. (Eds.), The History of Psychopharmacology, (2nd edition), Editorial Medica Panamericana Publisher.

• Baumeister, A.A., Hawkins, M.F., & Francis, J.L. (in press). Historical development of monoamine hypotheses of schizophrenia. In López-Muñoz F. and Alamo C. (Eds.), The History of Psychopharmacology, (2nd edition), Editorial Medica Panamericana Publisher.

• Baumeister, A.A. & Hawkins, M.F. (2005). Continuity and discontinuity in the ontogenesis of psychopharmacology. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 14, 199-209.

• Baumeister, A.A. & Hawkins, M.F. (2004). The serotonin hypothesis of schizophrenia: A historical case study on the heuristic value of theory in clinical neuroscience. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 13(3), 277-291.

• Baumeister, A.A., Hawkins, M.F., & Uzelac, S.M. (2003). The myth of reserpine-induced depression: Role in the historical development of the monoamine hypothesis. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 12 (2), 207-220.

• Hawkins, M. F., Uzelac, S. M., Baumeister, A. A., Hearn, J. K., Broussard, J. I., & Guillot, T. S. (2002). Behavioral responses to stress following central and peripheral injection of a 5-HT2 agonist DOI. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 73(3), 537-544.

• Baumeister, A. A. & Hawkins, M. F., (2001). Incoherence of neuroimaging studies of attention deficit/hyperactivity disoder. Clinical Neuropharmacology, 24, 2-10.

• Hawkins, M.F., Baumeister, A. A., LaRue, R. H., Uzelac, S. M., Fountain, L. T., Highsmith, R. W., Jeffries, A. C., (2000). Manipulation of central GABAergic and dopaminergic systems alters stress responding in the rat. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 66, 667-670.

• Hawkins, M. F., Baumeister, A. A., LaRue, R. H., Fountain, L. T., Highsmith, R. W., Jeffires, S. K., & Duke, M. A., (1999). Central GABA activation and behaviors evoked by tail pinch stress in the rat. Physiology and Behavior, 67(5), 705-709.

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