Yvon Delville
Professor
Department of Psychology

I received my Ph.D in 1992 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst working in the laboratory of Jeff Blaustein.  Afterwards, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Physiology Department at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester in the laboratory of Craig Ferris.  I became Assistant Professor in the Behavioral Neuroscience Program of the Psychiatry Department at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester in 1994.  I joined the Psychology Department at the University of Texas in 1999.  I am a member of the Behavioral Neuroscience Area in the Psychology Department and of the Institute For Neuroscience.

Lab Pictures

 

Graduate Students

Lina Fernanda Gonzalez-Martinez

Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience

The University of Texas at Austin

Lina is looking at the effects of social stress in early puberty on various aspects of impulsivity, emotional reactivity, behavioral flexibility and perseverance in hamsters.

 

Lindsay Ferguson

Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience

The University of Texas at Austin/The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Lindsay is studying neural encoding of incentive salience in rats.  She performs electrophysiological studies  on dopaminergic neurons within the ventral segmental area, comparing sign-tracker and goal-trackers.