Benjamin N. Greenwood Benjamin N. Greenwood, Ph.D. Department of Integrative Physiology University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0354 phone: (303) 492-7331 fax: (303) 492-6778 e-mail: Ben.Greenwood@Colorado.edu

Research Interests

• The neurobiological mechanisms by which physical activity status impacts cognitive and behavioral responses to stress, focusing primarily on learning and memory, depression-, and anxiety-related behaviors in rodents.

Education

• 1995-1999, B.A., Psychology and Kinesiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.


• 1999-2002, M.S., Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.


• 2002-2005, Ph.D., Neuroscience and Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.

Professional Experience

• 2005-2010, Research Associate, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.


• 2006-2007, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO.


• 2007-2008, Lecturer, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.


• 2010-Present, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

Honors, Grants and Awards

• 2002, Psychoneuroimmunology Society Scholars Award.


• 2002, National Institute of Mental Health Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award.


• 2007, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Stadard Research Grant Award.


• 2008, Society for Neuroscience Post-doctoral Travel Award.


• 2009, National Institute of Mental Health R03 Grant Award

Recent Publications

• Bland ST, Tamlyn JP, Barrientos RM, Greenwood BN, Watkins LR, Campeau S, Day HE, Maier SF. Expression of fibroblast growth factor-2 and brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA in the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus after uncontrollable or controllable stress. Neuroscience 144: 1219-28, 2007.


• Christianson JP, Ragole T, Amat J, Greenwood BN, Strong PV, Paul ED, Fleshner M, Watkins LR, Maier SF. 5-hydroxytryptamine 2C receptors in the basolateral amygdala are involved in the expression of anxiety after traumatic stress. Biological Psychiatry 67: 339-345, 2010.


• Dishman RK, Berthoud HR, Booth FW, Cotman CW, Edgerton VR, Fleshner MR, Gandevia SC, Gomez-Pinilla F, Greenwood BN, Hillman CH, Kramer AF, Levin BE, Moran TH, Russo-Neustadt AA, Salamone JD, Van Hoomissen JD, Wade CE, York DA, Zigmond MJ. Neurobiology of exercise. Obesity 14: 345-56, 2006.


• Greenwood BN, Flesher M. Exercise, learned helplessness, and the stress resistant brain. Neuromolecular Medicine, 2008;10(2):81-98.


• Greenwood BN, Strong PV, Brooks L, Fleshner M. Anxiety-like behaviors produced by acute fluoxetine administration in male Fischer 344 rats are prevented by prior exercise. Psychopharmacology, 199: 209-22, 2008.


• Greenwood BN, Strong PV, Dorey AA, Fleshner M. Therapeutic effects of exercise: wheel running reverses stress-induced interference with shuttle box escape. Behavioral Neuroscience 121: 992-1000, 2007.


• Greenwood BN, Strong PV, Fleshner M. Lesions of the basolateral amygdala reverse the long-lasting interference with shuttle box escape produced by uncontrollable stress. Behavioral Brain Research 211: 71-6, 2010.


• Greenwood BN, Strong PV, Fleshner M. A behavioral analysis of the impact of voluntary physical activity on hippocampal-dependent contextual conditioning. Hippocampus 19: 988-1001, 2009.


• Greenwood BN, Strong PV, Foley TE, Thompson RS, Fleshner M. Learned helplessness is independent of levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the hippocampus. Neuroscience 144: 1193-208, 2007.


• Sasse SK, Greenwood BN, Masini CV, Nyhuis TJ, Fleshner M, Day HEW, Campeau S. Six weeks of voluntary wheel running facilitates hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis response habituation to repeated audiogenic stress exposures in male Sprague-Dawley rats. Stress: The International Journal on the Biology of Stress 11: 425-37, 2008.


• Strong PV, Greenwood BN, Fleshner M. The effects of the selective 5-HT(2C) receptor antagonist SB 242084 on learned helplessness in male Fischer 344 rats. Psychopharmacology. 203: 665-75, 2009.