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Victoria N. Luine is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She received her PhD in Pharmacology at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

We are also interested in sex differences in response to stress hormones. Investigations include effects of gonadal hormones, estradiol and testosterone, on cognitive function, and their role in loss of function with aging. Recent work has examined whether motherhood influences aging and cognitive function, and results show beneficial effects. Sex differences in the response to psychoactive drugs such as cocaine are also studied.

Biography
Before joining Hunter College in 1988, she was Associate Professor of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University in NYC. Her research utilizes rats and mice to understand how hormones, both adrenal and gonadal, alter neural function which leads to impairments or enhancements, respectively, of both cognition and sexual behavior.

Recent studies have also investigated how hormones might interact with addictive drugs like amphetamine and methamphetamine to enhance the addictive process. She has published approximately 200 research papers. This research has important implications for humans: understanding and treating memory loss that occurs with aging and dementia and following bouts of chronic stress. She is the recipient of numerous government and private grants and awards.

Prof. Luine is also the director of the Hunter College MBRS-RISE program (NIH), which supports research for undergraduate and graduate students, and the SCORE Program (NIH), an Institutional Development Program to improve the research environment and enhance ability of the faculty to conduct biomedical research. Prof. Luine previously served on the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences MRPC-B Subcommittee which reviews grants and advises the Directors of NIGMS and NIH on policy. She is the first recipient of the Bernice Grafstein Award for mentoring (2009) from the Society for Neuroscience.

Research
Victoria Luine, a prominent psychologist specializing in neuroendocrinology, has dedicated her research program to understanding the intricate relationship between hormones and the brain. Her impactful work explores the effects of hormones on cognitive function, particularly focusing on estrogen's role in memory and learning. One notable study, with the DOI [], demonstrated the critical influence of estrogen on synaptic plasticity, shedding light on potential interventions for cognitive disorders. Luine's contributions significantly advance our comprehension of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying cognitive processes, offering potential implications for therapeutic interventions in conditions affecting memory and learning.

Representative publications
Bowman, R. E., Micik, R., Gautreaux, C., Fernandez, L., & Luine, V. N. (2009). Sex-dependent changes in anxiety, memory, and monoamines following one week of stress. Physiology &amp;amp; Behavior, 97(1), 21–29.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.01.012

Macbeth, A. H., &amp;amp; Luine, V. N. (2010). Changes in anxiety and cognition due to reproductive experience: A review of data from rodent and human mothers. Neuroscience &amp;amp;amp; Biobehavioral Reviews, 34(3), 452–467.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.08.011

Salas-Ramirez, K. Y., Frankfurt, M., Alexander, A., Luine, V. N., & Friedman, E. (2010). Prenatal cocaine exposure increases anxiety, impairs cognitive function and increases dendritic spine density in adult rats: Influence of sex. Neuroscience, 169(3), 1287–1295.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.04.067

Inagaki, T., Gautreaux, C., & Luine, V. (2010). Acute estrogen treatment facilitates recognition memory consolidation and alters monoamine levels in memory-related brain areas. Hormones and Behavior, 58(3), 415–426.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.05.013

Shineman, D. W., Salthouse, T. A., Launer, L. J., Hof, P. R., Bartzokis, G., Kleiman, R., Luine, V., Buccafusco, J. J., Small, G. W., Aisen, P. S., Lowe, D. A., &amp;amp; Fillit, H. M. (2010). Therapeutics for Cognitive Aging. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1191(s1).

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05532.x