Research Interests
Animal modeling in psychopharmacology
Stress anxiety and depression
Pain and analgesia
Neurochemical substrates of social attachment
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 (in press) Preparing for a career at a research
university. In Davis SF, Giordano P, Licht CA (Eds.), Turning your psychology
degree into a career: Life after the PhD. Wiley-Blackwell, pp XX.
Rainey EP, Sufka KJ (in press) Pharmacological
dissociation of anxiety state in the elevated star maze in chicks. In AV Kalueff,
JL LaPorte (Eds.), Behavioral Models in Stress Research, Vol 2, Nova Publishers,
pp. XX.
Kochanowska AJ, Rao KV, Childress S, El-Afy A, Matsumoto
RR, Kelly M, Stewart GS, Sufka KJ, Hamann MT (in press) Secondary metabolites
from three Florida sponges with antidepressant activity. Journal of Natural
Products.
Kalueff AV, LaPorte JL, Murphy DL, Sufka KJ. (in press)
Hybridizing behavioral models: a possible solution to some problems in
neurophenotyping research? Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological
Psychiatry.
Warnick JE, Huang C-J, Acevedo EO, Sufka KJ (in press)
Modeling the anxiety-depression continuum in chicks. Journal of
Psychopharmacology.
Warnick JE, Sufka KJ (in press) Animal models of
anxiety: examining their validity, utility and ethical considerations. In AV
Kalueff, JL LaPorte (Eds.), Behavioral Models in Stress Research, Vol 1, Nova
Publishers, pp. XX.
Feltenstein MW, Sufka KJ (in press) Development and validation of alternative models of anxiety and depression using domestic fowl. In AV Kalueff, JL LaPorte (Eds.), Behavioral Models in Stress Research, Vol 1, Nova Publishers, pp. XX.
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.
Warnick JE, McCurdy CR, Sufka KJ (2005) Opiate receptor function in
social attachment in young domestic fowl. Behavioural Brain Research, 160,
277-285.
Feltenstein MW, Schüly W, Warnick JE, Fischer NH, Sufka KJ (2004)
Anti-inflammatory and anti-hyperalgesic effects of sesquiterpine lactones from
Magnolia and Bear’s Foot. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 79, 299-302.
Avula B, Ganzera M, Warnick JE, Feltenstein MW, Sufka KJ, Khan IA.
(2004) High performance liquid chromatographic determination of xanthohumol in
rat plasma, urine and fecal samples. Journal of Chromatographic Science, 42,
378-382.
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 Philosophy and Psychology
International Assoc. for the Study of Pain Society for the Teaching of Psychology
American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science Project Kaleidoscope
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
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)
