Curriculum Vitae
ADDRESS:
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of Psychology
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wsternbe@haverford.edu
1986-1990
B.S., Cum Laude,
Psychology/Biology, 1990
1990-1994
M.A., Psychology, 1992 (Behavioral Neuroscience Area)
Ph.D.,
Psychology, 1994 (Behavioral Neuroscience Area)
ACADEMIC
POSITIONS HELD:
7/02-present
7/95 – 6/02
6/94-6/95
Post-doctoral
Research Fellow
Dr. Norman
Cousins Program in Psychoneuroimmunology,
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
2005-2008 NSF Research in
Undergraduate Institutions Grant
Long-term consequences of early pain
2003 Christian
R. and Mary F. Lindback Teaching Award
2001-2004 NIH Academic
Research Enhancement Award
Psychobiological
Studies of the Analgesia Induced by Competition
1997-2002 NSF Research in Undergraduate Institutions Grant
Sex, age
and hormonal factors in endogenous pain inhibition
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS:
American Pain Society
Society for Neuroscience
Faculty for
Undergraduate Neuroscience
*indicates Haverford student
Journal
Articles:
Sternberg,
W.F., Scorr, L.*, Smith, L.D.*, Ridgway, C.G.*, Stout, M.* (2005). Long-term
effects of neonatal surgery on adulthood pain behavior. Pain, 113, 347-353.
Sternberg,
W.F., Smith, L.D.*, Scorr, L.*. (2004). Nociception and antinociception on the day of
birth in mice: sex differences and test dependence. The Journal of Pain, 5(8),
420-426.
Sternberg,
W.F., Chesler, E.J.,
Sternberg,
W.F., Ritchie, J., Mogil, J.S. (2004). Qualitative
sex differences in k-opioid analgesia in
mice are dependent on age. Neuroscience
Letters, 363, 178-181.
Sternberg,
W.F., & Ridgway, C.G. * (2003). Effects of gestational stress and neonatal
handling on pain, analgesia, and stress behavior of adult mice. Physiology and Behavior,78, 375-383.
Sternberg, W.F., & Mogil, J.S. (2001). Genetic and hormonal
basis of pain states, Bailleres Practice and Research: Clinical
Anesthesiology, 15(2) 229-245.
Sternberg, W.F., Bokat, C.*, Kass, L.*, Alboyadjian, A.* & Gracely,
R.H. (2001), Sex-sdependent components of the analgesia produced by athletic
competition , The Journal of Pain, 2(1) 65-74.
Mogil,
J.S., Chesler, E., J.,
Sternberg,
W.F. (1999) Sex differences in the
effects of prenatal stress on stress-induced analgesia, Physiology and Behavior, 68
63-72.
Sternberg,
W.F. (1999) Research Update: Athletes, pain and pain inhibition. American Pain Society Bulletin, 9 1;18-19.
Sternberg, W.F.
(1998) Animal models of sex differences in pain and analgesia. Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain, 6(3),
37-40.
Sternberg,
W.F., Bailin, D*., Grant, M.*, and Gracely, R.H. (1998) Competition alters the
perception of noxious stimuli in male and female athletes. Pain, 76,
231-238.
Sternberg,
W.F. (1997) Sex differences in descending pain modulatory pathways may clarify
sex differences in pain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20(3),
466.
Mogil, J.
S., Sternberg, W. F., Balian, H., Liebeskind, J. C., & Sadowski, B. (1996) Opioid and non-opioid swim
stress-induced analgesia: a parametric analysis. Physiology & Behavior, 59, 123-132.
Mogil, J.
S., Sternberg, W. F., Marek, P., Sadowski, B., Belknap, J. K., and Liebeskind,
J. C. (1996). The genetics of pain and
pain inhibition. Proceedings of the
Mogil, J.
S., Flodman, P., Spence, M. A.,
Sternberg, W. F., Kest, B., Sadowski, B., Liebeskind, J. C., & Belknap, J.
K. (1995). Oligogenic determination of morphine analgesic
magnitude: a genetic analysis of selectively bred mouse lines. Behavior Genetics, 25, 397-406
Sternberg,
W.F. (1995). Methodological and
life-span factors modulate gender differences in the analgesic response to
stress. Pain Forum, 4(4),
222-224.
Sternberg, W. F., Mogil, J. S., Kest, B., Page, G. G.,
& Liebeskind, J. C. (1995). Neonatal testosterone exposure
influences neurochemistry of swim stress-induced analgesia in adult mice. Pain, 63, 321-326.
Sternberg, W.F.,
and Liebeskind, J.C. (1995). The
analgesic response to stress: genetic and gender considerations. European Journal of Anesthesiology, 12(Suppl.
10), 14-17.
Mogil, J.
S., Marek, P., Floodman, P., Spence, M. A., Sternberg, W. F., Kest, B.,
Sadowski, B., & Liebeskind, J. C.
(1995). One or two genetic loci mediate high opiate analgesia in selectively
bred mice. Pain, 60, 125-135.
Kest, B.,
Mogil, J.S., Sternberg, W.F., Pechnick, R., and Liebeskind, J.C. (1995). 1,3-di-o-Tolyguanidine
(DTG) differentially affects acute and tonic formalin pain: antagonism by
rimcazole. Pharmacology, Biochemistry
and Behavior, 52(1), 175-178.
Kest, B.,
Mogil J. S., Sternberg, W. F., Pechnick, R., & Liebeskind, J. C. (1995).
Antinociception following 1,3,-DI-o-Tolylguanidine
(DTG), a sigma ligand. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 50(4),
587-592.
Sternberg, W. F., Mogil, J. S., Pilati, M. L., Boun, C.,
Wong, S. K., & Liebeskind, J. C. (1994). Nerochemical quality of non-opioid stress-induced
analgesia is not altered by estrous phase in female mice. Proceedings of the Western Pharmacology
Society, 37, 141-143.
Kest, B.,
Mogil, J. S., Sternberg, W. F., Pechnick, R. N., & Liebeskind, J. C.
(1994). Haloperidol increases pain
behavior following peripheral tissue injury.
Proceedings of the Western Pharmacology Society, 37,
89-90.
Kest, B., Mogil, J. S., Sternberg, W. F., Liebeskind, J.
C., & Sadowski, B.
(1993). The
kappa opiate receptor is functionally up-regulated in mice selectively bred for
high analgesic responsivity. Proceedings
of the Western Pharmacology Society, 36, 249-253.
Mogil, J.
S., Sternberg, W. F., Kest, B., Marek, P., & Liebeskind, J. C. (1993) Sex
differences in the antagonism of non-opioid swim stress-induced analgesia: Effects
of gonadectomy and estrogen replacement. Pain, 53, 17-25.
Ben-Eliyahu,
S., Marek, P., Vaccarino, A. L., Mogil, J. S., Sternberg, W. F. and Liebeskind,
J. C. (1992). The NMDA antagonist MK-801 prevents long-lasting non-associative
morphine tolerance in the rat. Brain Research, 575, 304-308.
Marek, P.,
Mogil, J. S., Sternberg, W. F., Panocka,
Vaccarino,
A. L., Marek, P., Sternberg, W. F., & Liebeskind, J. C. (1992).
The NMDA antagonist MK-801 blocks stress-induced analgesia in the
formalin test. Pain, 50,
119-123.
Book
Chapters:
Sternberg, W.F. (in
press). Pain: Basic Concepts. In D. Pargman (Ed.) Psychological Bases of Sports
Injuries 3rd Edition
Sternberg,
W.F., & Al-Chaer, E.D, (in press). Long-term consequences of neonatal and infant
pain from animal models. In K.S. Anand,
B. Stevens, P. McGrath (Eds.) Pain in Neonates and Infants 3rd
Edition.
Sternberg, W.F. & Wachterman, M.*, (2000). Experimental studies of sex-related factors influencing
nociceptive responses: Nonhuman animal research. In R.B. Fillingim (Ed.), Sex, Gender, and
Pain IASP Press.
Sternberg, W.F.
(2000) Gender and hormonal factors in endogenous pain inhibition, in M.M
Morrison and P.D. Kroboth (Eds.), Endocrine Basis of Geriatric Psychiatry,
Cambridge University Press.
Mogil, J. S., Sternberg, W. F., & Liebeskind, J. C.
(1993). Studies of pain,
stress, and immunity. In C. R. Chapman, & K. M. Foley (Eds.), Current
and Emerging Issues in Cancer Pain: Research and Practice. Raven Press:
Abstracts/Presentations:
Horn, C.C., Sternberg, W.F., Friedman, M.I. (2004). Cisplatin,
a cancer chemotherapy agent, activates the gut-brain pathways for the detection
of toxins in the rat. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 29. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience
Annual Meeting,
Sternberg,
WF, Ridgway, C, Stout, M, Takahaski, H., Steinemann, J. (2002) Untreated pain
on day of birth permanently alters pain sensitivity in mice. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 28.
Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting,
Sternberg, WF, Chesler, EJ, Wilson, SG, Mogil, JS. (2001). Progesterone influences
analgesia mechanism in female mice. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 27. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience
Annual Meeting,
Sternberg, W.F., Wellington, A.*, Lord, A.*. (2000). Perinatal stressors alter
the magnitude of stress-induced analgesia in adult mice. Society for
Neuroscience Abstracts, 26, 489.
Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting,
Sternberg,
W.F. (2000). Expectancy influences pain unpleasantness but not intensity
ratings in male and female college students.
Presented at the American Pain Society Annual Meeting,
Sternberg, W.F., Bokat, C.*, Kass, L.*, Alboyadjian, A.*,
and Gracely, R. H. (1999). Sex-dependent effects of exercise and sedentary
competition on pain report in human subjects.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25, 142. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience
Annual Meeting,
Sternberg,
W.F. (1998). Estrogen-dependent
alterations in analgesic magnitude induced by prenatal stress. Society for
Neuroscience Abstracts, 24, 1136.
Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting,
Sternberg,
W.F., Bailin, D.*, Grant, M.*, and Gracely, R.H. (1997). Competition alters the perception of noxious
heat and cold in male and female athletes.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 23, 2353. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience
Annual Meeting and the American Pain Society Annual Meeting,
Sternberg, W.F., Geneve, C.*, Goldstein, D.*, &
Mogil, J.S. (1996). Stress-related alterations in
territorial aggression in mice selectively bred for high and low stress-induced
analgesia. Society for Neuroscience
Abstracts, 22, 462. Presented
at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting,
Sternberg, W. F., & Liebeskind, J. C. (1994). Age-related changes in the neurochemical mediation and the
magnitude of swim stress-induced analgesia in mice. Society for Neuroscience
Abstracts, 20, 1390.
Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, and the
American Pain Society Annual Meeting,
Sternberg, W. F., Kest, B., Mogil, J. S., &
Liebeskind, J. C. (1993). Female mice display less pain behavior than males following acetic acid
or formalin administration. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 19,
1572. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting,
Kest, B., Mogil, J. S., Sternberg, W., Pechnick, R.,
& Liebeskind, J. C. (1993). The sigma receptor ligand 1,3, di-O-tolylguanidine (DTG) differentially affects acute and tonic
formalin pain. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 19,
1412. Presented at the Society for
Neuroscience Annual Meeting,
Sternberg, W. F., Mogil, J. S., Kest, B., Marek, P.,
& Liebeskind, J. C. (1992). Sex differences in the antagonism of
non-opioid analgesia: Effects of gonadectomy and estrogen replacement. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 18,
687. Presented at the Society for
Neuroscience Annual Meeting, and the American Pain Society Annual Meeting,
Mogil, J. S., Marek, P., Sternberg, W. F., Spence, M. A.,
& Liebeskind, J. C. (1992). A genetic analysis of swim-stress
induced analgesia in selectively bred mice.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 18, 686. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience
Annual Meeting,
Marek, P., Ben-Eliyahu, S., Vaccarino, A. L., Sternberg,
W., Mogil, J., &
Liebeskind,
J. C. (1991). Delayed application of MK-801 attenuates
development of morphine tolerance in the rat.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 17(2), 1208.
Presented
at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting,
Mogil, J. S., Marek, P., Sternberg, W. F., Panocka, I.,
& Liebeskind, J. C. (1991). MK-801 attenuates non-opioid
stress-induced analgesia in selectively bred mice: Comparison across three swim
stress paradigms. Society for
Neuroscience Abstracts, 17(2), 1209.
Presented
at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, and the American Pain Society
Annual Meeting,
Vaccarino, A. L., Marek, P., Sternberg, W., &
Liebeskind, J. C. (1991). Swim stress produced analgesia in
the formalin test is mediated via the NMDA receptor. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 17(2),
1208. Presented at the Society for
Neuroscience Annual Meeting,
INVITED
ADDRESSES:
November 2005
Department
of Neurobiology and Anatomy
March 2005
Clinical
Neuropsychology Research Group
Department
of Psychiatry
June 2004
Stress and
Neurobiology Research Group
Department
of Anesthesiology, Children’s
March 2004
Congress on
Plasticity and Learning in Chronic Pain
March 2003
Department
of Psychology
April 2002
Workshop on
Chronic Pelvic Pain
National
Institutes of Health,
March 2002
Center for
Substance Abuse Research
April 2001
Workshop on
Steroid Hormone Function
December 2000
Faculty
Research Talk
June 1999
Pain and
Biobehavioral Sciences Research Group
National
Institutes of Health,
May 1999
Natural
Science Colloquium Series
April 1999
Department
of Psychology
March 1999
Department
of Biology
May 1998
Department
of Psychology
April 1998
Workshop on
Steroid Hormone Function
May 1997
Department
of Psychology
November 1996
9th International Heidelberg Symposium
Heidelberg, Germany
July 1996
Department
of Biomedical Engineering
July 1996
Fibromylagia
Workshop
National
Institutes of Health,
October 1995
Department
of Psychology