Quinnipiac University
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Hamden, CT
2019 - Present
Joshua Lewis Haight
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Joshua Haight joined Quinnipiac University in 2019 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Connecticut College in 2009, and then went to work as a research assistant for two years in the Dyslexia Research Lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. He received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Michigan in 2016, where he worked in the lab of Dr. Shelly Flagel studying the neural mechanisms underlying individual differences in Pavlovian conditioning, and received funding from a National Institute of Drug Abuse NRSA award. After graduate school, he completed his postdoctoral training in the lab of Dr. Nii Addy at Yale University, studying the neural circuitry of depression-related behaviors. Dr. Haight teaches courses in the psychology and behavioral neuroscience majors, including Introduction to Psychology, Physiological Psychology, and Drugs, Brain & Behavior. Dr. Haight also supervises research students and runs a research program on campus studying the neural mechanisms of motivation in healthy and diseased states.
Education
- MS, University of Michigan
- PHD, University of Michigan
Areas of Expertise
- Behavioral Neuroscience
- Motivation
- Depression
Organization
- Psychology
Office Location
- Tator Hall 219
Mail Drop
- BC-SCI
Experience
Yale University
Postdoctoral Associate in Psychiatry
New Haven, CT
2016 - 2019
University of Michigan
Graduate Student, Neuroscience Graduate Program
Ann Arbor, MI
2011 - 2016
Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal
Ventral tegmental area M5 muscarinic receptors mediate effort-choice responding and nucleus accumbens dopamine in a sex specific manner
Nunes, E., Kebede, N., Haight, J., Foster, D., Lindsley, C., Conn, P., Addy, N.
385 The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 146-156 May (2023)
Conference Presentation
The effects of early life stress on orexin receptor expression in reward-related brain areas
O'Connor, L., Zarin, T., Betz, A., Haight, J.
36th Annual NEURON Conference, North Haven, CT, Quinnipiac University (2023)
Conference Presentation
Lipopolysaccharide administration reduces effort to work for a preferred reward in male and female rats
O'Connor, L., Bissell, E., Cho, M., Jack, H., Miller, J., Pantalena, T., Van Blarcom, H., Zanesky, C., Haight, J.
36th Annual NEURON Conference, North Haven, CT, Quinnipiac University (2023)
Conference Presentation
The long-term effects of social enrichment on the development of anxiety and effort-choice behavior in rodents
Cho, M., Zanesky, C., Miller, J., Pantalena, T., Patel, D., O'Connor, L., Haight, J., Betz, A.
36th Annual NEURON Conference, North Haven, CT, Quinnipiac University (2023)
Conference Presentation
Exploring the role of the paraventricular thalamus, and potential sex differences, in a preclinical model of depression
Van Blarcom, H., Arceta, J., Bissell, E., Haight, J.
35th Annual NEURON Conference, North Haven, CT, Quinnipiac University (2022)
Peer Reviewed Poster
The 35th northeast undergraduate and graduate research organization for neuroscience (NEURON) conference held at Quinnipiac University's Frank H. Netter M.D. School of Medicine in North Haven, CT
Betz., A., Rotolo, R., Tanner, G., Ahern, T., Haight, J., Francone, V., Kline, E., Yang, J-H., Ecevitoglu, A., Sanacora, G.
Society for Neuroscience 2022, San Diego, CA, Society for Neuroscience (2022)
Peer Reviewed Poster
The 33rd northeast undergraduate and graduate research organization for neuroscience (NEURON) conference held at Quinnipiac University's Center for Medicinem Nursing and Health Sciences in North Haven, CT
Rotolo, R., Tanner, G., Small, D., Francone. V., Frye, C., Basu, A., Trapani, J., Linden, M., Presby, R., Yang, Y-H., Lee, D, Battison, A., Haight, J., Ahern, T, Betz, A.
Society for Neuroscience's SfN Global Connectome: A Virtual Event, Virtual, Society for Neuroscience (2021)
Invited Speaker
Mediating individual variation in Pavlovian conditioned responses
Haight, J.L.
Spring 2021 Seminar, Hamden, CT, Sigma Xi, Quinnipiac Chapter (2021)
Peer Reviewed Poster
The 34th northeast undergraduate and graduate research organization for neuroscience (NEURON) conference held virtually
Rotolo, R., Tanner, G., Lynch, W., Battison, A., Francone. V., Presby, R., Yang, J-H., Ecevitoglu, A., Haight, J., Ahern, T, Betz, A.
Society for Neuroscience 2021 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Society for Neuroscience (2021)
Non-Peer Reviewed Presentation
Sex-linked differences in pro-depressive behaviors in rodent models of induced stress
Arceta, J., Haight, J.
Quinnipiac University (2021)
Peer Reviewed Journal
The lateral hypothalamus and orexinergic transmission in the paraventricular thalamus promote the attribution of incentive salience to reward-associated cues
Haight, J., Campus, P., Maria-Rios, C., Johnson, A., Klumpner, M., Kuhn, B., Covelo, I., Morrow, J., Flagel, S.
237 Psychopharmacology 3741-3758 August (2020)