Affiliated Appointment
Visiting Research Professor, Comparative Biology Centre & Institute for Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Research Interests
Animal modeling in psychopharmacology
Pain and analgesia
Philosophy of mind
Courses Offered
General Psychology (Psy 201)
Brain and Behavior (Psy 319)
Psychopharmacology Lab (Psy 405/420)
Physiological Psychology (Psy 615)
Teaching of Psychology (Psy 621)
2006 Thomas F. Frist Student Service Award (for
extraordinary service to students), University of Mississippi
2005 Faculty Achievement Award (for outstanding teaching
and scholarship), University of Mississippi
2000 Presidential Citation (for national efforts in
psychology curricular reform), American Psychological
Association
1999 Top 40 Under 40 Mississippian (for professional excellence and contributions to the community),
Mississippi Business Journal & Bank of Mississippi
1997 Alpha Epsilon Delta Outstanding Teacher,
Pre-Medicine Honor Society, University of Mississippi
1997 University's Outstanding Faculty, Higher Education
Appreciation Day--Working for Academic
Excellence, The State of Mississippi Legislature
1996 Elsie M. Hood University's Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Mississippi
Publications (last three years)
Sufka KJ, Weldon M, Allen C (in press) The case for animal emotions: Modeling neuropsychiatric disorders. In J Bickle (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Neuroscience, Oxford University Press.
Sufka KJ (in press) Preparing for a career at a research university. In SF Davis, P Giordano, CA Licht (Eds, Turning your psychology degree into a career: Life after the PhD. Wiley-Blackwell.
Rainey EP, Sufka KJ (in press) Pharmacological dissociation of anxiety state in the elevated star maze in chicks. In AV Kalueff, JL LaPorte (Eds.), Experimental Animal Models in Neurobehavioral Research, Nova Science Publishers.
Warnick JE, Huang C-J, Acevedo EO, Sufka KJ (in press) Modeling the anxiety-depression continuum in chicks. Journal of Psychopharmacology.
Kalueff AV, LaPorte JL, Murphy DL, Sufka KJ. (2008) Hybridizing behavioral models: a possible solution to some problems in neurophenotyping research? Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 32, 1172-1178.
Feltenstein MW, Sufka KJ (2008) Development and validation of alternative models of anxiety and depression using domestic fowl. In AV Kalueff, JL LaPorte (Eds.), Behavioral Models in Stress Research, Nova Science Publishers, pp. 23-54.
Warnick JE, Sufka KJ (2008) Animal models of anxiety: examining their validity, utility and ethical considerations. In AV Kalueff, JL LaPorte (Eds.), Behavioral Models in Stress Research, Nova Science Publishers, pp. 55-71.
Kochanowska AJ, Rao KV, Childress S, El-Afy A, Matsumoto RR, Kelly M, Stewart GS, Sufka KJ, Hamann MT (2008) Secondary metabolites from three Florida sponges with antidepressant activity. Journal of Natural Products, 71, 186-189.
Sufka KJ, Feltenstein MW, Warnick JE, Acevedo EO, Webb HE, Cartwright CM (2006) Modeling the anxiety-depression continuum hypothesis in domestic fowl chicks. Behavioural Pharmacology, 17, 681-689.
Price DD, Sufka KJ (2006) Theories of pain. In J Mao (Ed.),
Translational Pain Research, Vol. 1: Current Status and New Trends, Nova
Publishers, pp. 1-27.
McCurdy CR, Sufka KJ, Smith GH, Warnick JE, Nieto MJ (2006) Antinociceptive
profile of Salvinorin A, a structurally unique kappa opioid receptor agonist.
Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 83, 109-113.
Warnick JE, Wicks RT, Sufka KJ (2006) Modeling anxiety-like states: pharmacological characterization of the chick separation stress paradigm. Behavioural Pharmacology, 17, 581-587.
Polger TW, Sufka KJ (2005) Closing the gap on pain. In M Aydede (Ed.), Pain: New Essays on the Nature of Pain and the Methodology of its Study, MIT Press, pp. 325-350.
Feltenstein, MW, Sufka KJ (2005) Screening antidepressants in the chick separation-stress paradigm. Psychopharmacology, 181, 153-159.
Sufka KJ, Turner DD (2005) An evolutionary account of chronic pain: integrating the natural method in evolutionary psychology. Philosophical Psychology, 18, 243-257.
Warnick JE, McCurdy CR, Sufka KJ (2005) Opiate receptor
function in social attachment in young domestic fowl. Behavioural Brain
Research, 160, 277-285.
Patent Pending
Animal Model of Anxiety and Depression (PCT application # 11/549,332 filed Oct 13, 2006).
Grants and Contracts
PI: Identification of reinforcing constituents in botanical extracts. National Institute of Health (project in $11M COBRE to UM), Washington, D.C. (08/01/06-07/31/11, Total costs $535,031)
Collaborator: Neoplasia and pain in laboratory animals, MRC United Kingdom (January 1, 2005-December 31, 2007, PI P. Flecknell)
PI: The effects of eszopiclone on nociceptive processing in the adjuvant model of arthritis in rats. Sepracor, Inc., Marlborough, MA. (04/01/06-06/30/06, Total costs: $36,000)
Co-PI: Mammalian metabolism/kinetics of xanthohumol. Hop Research Council, Harrah, WA. (06/01/01-05/31/03, Total costs: $201,022)
PI: Screening botanical extracts for sedative properties. NEXT Pharmaceuticals, Irvine, CA. (11/01/02-2-28-03, $7,140)1
PI: Screening botanical extracts for analgesic and antiinflammatory properties in the adjuvant arthritic rat. Eurovita, Karlslunde, Denmark. (06/01/01-08/15/01, Total costs: $12,500)1
PI: Screening botanical extracts for anxiolytic/analgesic properties. NEXT Pharmaceuticals, Irvine, CA. (ongoing fixed price/sample contract)
Professional affiliations
Society for Neuroscience
Society for the Teaching of Psychology
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sigma Xi Scientific Society
COURSES OFFERED
General Psychology (Psy 201)
Brain Science and Behavior (Psy 319)
Minor Research Problems in Psychopharmacology (Psy 405)
Special Topics in Psychopharmacology (Psy 420)
Advanced Physiological Psychology (Psy 528)
Teaching of Psychology (Psy 621)
