Research Associate
M. Kathleen Gordon
mkgordon@udel.edu
040-050 McKinley Lab
(302) 831-2337
(302) 831-6423 -fax
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Kathleen joined The Infant Care-Giver Project in March, 2003, taking responsibility for operation of the cortisol laboratory. Cortisol levels indicate the amount of activity in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system and provide a physiological measure of an individual’s response to stressors.
Kathleen’s long standing interest in the consequences of stressful experiences early in life started during her graduate training with Seymour Levine when she studied the effects of separation from the mother in rat pups. Subsequently she studied the effects of social isolation during a postdoctoral fellowship with Donald Overton at Temple University. Currently she collaborates with several labs that use cortisol measures in human subjects, and also conducts research in animal models of early experience, attachment, and development and control of the “stress response,” including cross-species comparisons of these processes. Her current work with Mary Dozier’s lab is a natural extension of these interests.
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