Faculty
Thery Sanon
Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Email: tsanon@skidmore.edu
Phone: 518-580-8125
Office: Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences 280G
Education:
- PhD and MA Behavioral and Integrative Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- BA in Psychology, American Univeristy, 2018
Courses taught:
- Intro to Neuroscience
- Special topics course on Addiction.
Research interests:
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Professor Sanon has spent the past decade focusing on substance abuse and addiction. For his Doctoral research, Professor Sanon studied the traumatic effects of heroin withdrawal, and how it can produce behavioral phenotypes associated with PTSD. Additional research areas include Substance Use Disorders, Stress Mechanisms, and Neurobiology.
Random facts
- I originally started College with the goal of being a lawyer, and avoiding the sciences/STEM completely. Funny how things work out.