Martha K. McClintock, Ph.D. David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Department of Psychology Department of Comparative Human Development Director, Institute for Mind and Biology Co-Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research Committee on Neurobiology Committee on Evolutionary Biology Lab web page
	Reciprocal interaction between behavior and neuroendocrinology.  Broadly, McClintock's current research focuses on the interaction between behaviior and reproductive endocrinology.  Because behavior and endocrine function are reciprocally linked, Dr. McClintock focuses on the behavioral control of endorinology, in addition to the hormonal and neuroendocrine mechanisms of behavior.  Working with both animal and parallel clinical processes in humans, Dr. McClintock concentrates on the behavioral and environmental control of fertility and reproductive hormones.  In addition, Dr. McClintock is interested in the evolutionary function of hormone-behavior interactions, particularly their role in sexual selection. More specific areas of interest for Dr. McClintock include pheromonal communication, social modulation of aging, immune function and susceptibility to disease, mechanism and function of estrous and menstrual synchrony, social and neuroendocrine control of reproduction in Rattus norvegicus, biasing the sex ratio of offspring, psychosomatics in obstetrics and gynecology, mood variation during the menstrual cycle, sexuality, and labor complications and neural development of human infants.  Dr. McClintock also studies the psychosocial originals of malignant and infectious disease, applying this to the dramatic health disparity in cancer promoting genes between African-American women and women of Northern European ancestry.
References
McClintock, M.K. (1971)  Menstrual synchrony and suppression.  Nature, 291, 244-245. Stern, K. and McClintock, M.K. (1998)  Regulation of ovulation by human pheromones.  Nature, 392: (6672), 177-179. Jacob, S., McClintock, M.K., Zelano, B. and Ober, C.  (2002)  Paternally inherited HLA allels are associated with women's choice of male odor.  Nature Genetics, 30, 175-179. Cavigelli, S.A., McClintock, M.K.  (2003)  Fear of novelty in infant rats predicts adult corticosterone dynamics and an early death.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003 Dec 23; 100(26):16131-6. Spencer, N.A., McClintock, M.K., Sellergren, S.A., Jacob S., Bullivant S. and B, Menella, J.A.  (2004)  Social chemosignals from breastfeeding women increase sexual motivation.  Hormones and Behavior, 46, 362-370. Hermes, G.H., Rosenthal, L., Montag, A., McClintock, M.K.  (2006)  Social isolation and the inflammatory response:  sex differences in the enduring effects of brief stress.  American Journal of Physiology:  Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 290 (2):R273-82.
	Last updated 8/3/06