Stephen L. Dewey
Senior Chemist

Neurotransmitter interactions in healthy and diseased states, functional regulation of neurotransmitter systems, behavioral pharmacology and animal models of addiction, in vivo neurochemical monitoring techniques (microdialysis, PET, and microPET)

Telephone:  631-344-4395
e-mail:  sld@bnl.gov

B.S. Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1981; Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1985

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1985-1986; Assistant Chemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1986-1988; Associate Chemist, BNL, 1988-1991; Chemist, continuing, BNL, 1991-1995; Tenured Scientist, BNL, 1995-present; SeniorChemist, 1998-Present, Research Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, SUNY at Stony Brook

Selected publications:

Wynne K Schiffer, Jean Logan, and Stephen L Dewey
Positron Emission Tomography Studies of Potential Mechanisms Underlying Phencyclidine-Induced Alterations in Striatal Dopamine.
Neuropsychopharmacology, Jul 2003

WK Schiffer, D Marsteller, and SL Dewey
Sub-chronic low dose gamma-vinyl GABA (vigabatrin) inhibits cocaine-induced increases in nucleus accumbens dopamine.
Psychopharmacology (Berl), Jul 2003; 168(3): 339-43.

WK Schiffer, M Azmoodeh, M Gerasimov, ND Volkow, JS Fowler, and SL Dewey
Selegiline potentiates cocaine-induced increases in rodent nucleus accumbens dopamine.
Synapse, Apr 2003; 48(1): 35-8.

MR Gerasimov, J Logan, RA Ferrieri, RD Muller, D Alexoff, and SL Dewey
Effect of vehicle on brain uptake of [11C]toluene.
Nucl Med Biol, Jul 2002; 29(5): 607-12.

 CR Ashby Jr, M Paul, EL Gardner, MR Gerasimov, SL Dewey, IC Lennon, and SJ Taylor
Systemic administration of 1R,4S-4-amino-cyclopent-2-ene-carboxylic acid, a reversible inhibitor of GABA transaminase, blocks expression of conditioned place preference to cocaine and nicotine in rats.
Synapse, May 2002; 44(2): 61-3.

MR Gerasimov, RA Ferrieri, WK Schiffer, J Logan, SJ Gatley, AN Gifford, DA Alexoff, DA Marsteller, C Shea, V Garza, P Carter, P King, CR Ashby Jr, S Vitkun, and SL Dewey
Study of brain uptake and biodistribution of [11C]toluene in non-human primates and mice.
Life Sci, Apr 2002; 70(23): 2811-28. 

MR Gerasimov, WK Schiffer, D Marstellar, R Ferrieri, D Alexoff, and SL Dewey
Toluene inhalation produces regionally specific changes in extracellular dopamine.
Drug Alcohol Depend, Feb 2002; 65(3): 243-51.

Gerasimov MR, Schiffer WK, Gardner EL, Marsteller DA, Lennon IC, Taylor SJ, Brodie JD, Ashby CR, Dewey SL (2001) GABAergic blockade of cocaine-associated cue-induced increases in nucleus accumbens dopamine.
Eur J Pharmacol 414: 205-9.