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Juan Dominguez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Email: dominguez@psy.utexas.edu Phone: 232-8050 Office: SEA 5.252 Dominguez Lab See also Behavioral Neuroscience

Juan Dominguez received his Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. His postdoctoral fellowship was conducted with dual appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Cell Biology at The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Following postdoctoral training, Dr. Dominguez joined the research faculty of the neuroscience program at Florida State University. Before joining the UT faculty, he was an assistant professor of psychology at American University in Washington, DC. The goals of his lab are to elucidate the underlying neural and endocrine mechanisms regulating motivated behaviors, specifically, using the study of sexual behavior as a prototypic model for understanding motivation, its acquisition and associated disorders.

Selected Representative Publications

J.M. Dominguez (in press). A role for preoptic glutamate in the regulation of male reproductive behavior. The Neuroscientist.

J.M. Dominguez, M.E. Balfour, H.S. Lee, J.L. Brown, B.A. Davis, L.M. Coolen (2007). Mating activates NMDA receptors in the medial preoptic nucleus. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121: 1023-1031.

E.M. Hull and J.M. Dominguez (2007). Sexual behavior in male rodents. Hormones and Behavior, 52: 45-55.

J.M. Dominguez, J.H. Brann, M. Gil, E.M. Hull (2006). Sexual experience increases nitric oxide synthase in the medial preoptic area of male rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 120: 1389-1394.

J.M. Dominguez, M. Gil, E.M. Hull (2006). Preoptic glutamate facilitates male sexual behavior. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26: 1699-1703.

J.M. Dominguez and E.M. Hull (2005). Dopamine, the medial preoptic area, and male sexual behavior. Physiology & Behavior, 86: 356-368.

J.M. Dominguez, J.W. Muschamp, J.M. Schmich, E.M. Hull (2004). Nitric oxide mediates glutamate-evoked dopamine release in the medial preoptic area. Neuroscience, 125: 203-210.

J. M. Dominguez, J.V. Riolo, Z. Xu, E.M. Hull (2001). Regulation by the medial amygdala of copulation and medial preoptic dopamine release. The Journal of Neuroscience, 21: 349-355.