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9016
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531

Overview

Alan A. Boulton was affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Their research focused primarily within the field of psychology, with notable contributions across several subfields including clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and sociology and political science.

The main topics of Boulton's work included psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending. They also investigated areas related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, autism spectrum disorder, bullying, victimization, aggression, as well as stalking, cyberstalking, and harassment.

Their recent publications covered:

  • Educator Knowledge of Childhood Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits (2024), published in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • "The student will always be a problem": Callous-unemotional traits are associated with specific dimensions of teacher attributions (2024), published in Teaching and Teacher Education

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Boulton included:

  • Georgette E. Fleming
  • Ashneeta H. Prasad
  • Kelly A. Kershaw
  • Eva R. Kimonis

Boulton's research was published predominantly in venues such as Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and Teaching and Teacher Education.

Best Publications

  • 2-Phenylethylamine: a modulator of catecholamine transmission in the mammalian central nervous system?

    I. A. Paterson;A. V. Juorio;A. A. Boulton

  • Identification and distribution of beta-phenylethylamine in the rat.

    D. A. Durden;S. R. Philips;Alan A. Boulton

  • Effects of deuterium substitution on the catabolism of β-phenylethylamine: an in vivo study

    L. E. Dyck;D. A. Burden;A. A. Boulton

  • Regulation of aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase by dopamine receptors in the rat brain.

    M. Y. Zhu;A. V. Juorio;I. A. Paterson;A. A. Boulton

  • Schizophrenia, a neurodegenerative disorder with neurodevelopmental antecedents.

    Paula C. Ashe;Mark D. Berry;Alan A. Boulton

  • Aromatic l -amino acid decarboxylase: A neglected and misunderstood enzyme

    M. D. Berry;A. V. Juorio;X. M. Li;A. A. Boulton

  • Gradation of Kainic Acid‐induced Rat Limbic Seizures and Expression of Hippocampal Heat Shock Protein‐70

    Xia Zhang;Douglas L. Gelowitz;Chien‐Tsai Lai;Alan A. Boulton

  • Aliphatic propargylamines: New antiapoptotic drugs

    Alan A. Boulton;Bruce A. Davis;David A. Durden;Lillian E. Dyck

  • Voltammetric Methods in Brain Systems

    A. A. Boulton;Glen B. Baker

  • THE EFFECTS OF RESERPINE AND 6-HYDROXYDOPAMINE ON THE CONCENTRATIONS OF SOME ARYLALKYLAMINES IN RAT BRAIN

    A A Boulton;A V Juorio;S R Philips;P H Wu

  • Regulation of striatal aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase: effects of blockade or activation of dopamine receptors.

    Meng-Yang Zhu;A. V. Juorio;I. A. Paterson;A. A. Boulton

  • Brain Trace Amines

    Alan A. Boulton;Augusto V. Juorio

  • The trace amines and their acidic metabolites in depression — an overview

    Bruce A. Davis;Alan A. Boulton

  • Gene expression of aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase in cultured rat glial cells.

    Xin-Min Li;Augusto V. Juorio;I. Alick Paterson;Wolfgang Walz

  • Enantio-specific induction of apoptosis by an endogenous neurotoxin, N-methyl(R)salsolinol, in dopaminergic SH-SY5Y cells: suppression of apoptosis by N-(2-heptyl)-N-methylpropargylamine.

    W. Maruyama;A. A. Boulton;B. A. Davis;P. Dostert

  • Neurorescuing effects of the GAPDH ligand CGP 3466B.

    P. C. Waldmeier;A. A. Boulton;A. R. Cools;A. C. Kato

  • Mass spectrometry of crude biological extracts. Absolute quantitative detection of metabolites at the submicrogram level.

    Alan A. Boulton;John R. Majer

  • Differential effects of olanzapine on the gene expression of superoxide dismutase and the low affinity nerve growth factor receptor

    Xin-Min Li;Jennifer Chlan-Fourney;Augusto V. Juorio;Vern L. Bennett

  • The biosynthesis of p-tyramine, m-tyramine, and β-phenylethylamine by rat striatal slices

    L. E. Dyck;C. R. Yang;A. A. Boulton

  • R-Deprenyl and R-2-heptyl-N-methylpropargylamine prevent apoptosis in cerebellar granule neurons induced by cytosine arabinoside but not low extracellular potassium

    I. A. Paterson;D. Zhang;R. C. Warrington;A. A. Boulton

  • Specific Irreversible Monoamine Oxidase B Inhibitors Stimulate Gene Expression of Aromatic L‐Amino Acid Decarboxylase in PC12 Cells

    Xin-Min Li;A. V. Juorio;I. A. Paterson;Meng-Yang Zhu

  • The effect of l -deprenyl on behavior, cognitive function, and biogenic amines in the dog

    N. W. Milgram;G. O. Ivy;E. Head;M. P. Murphy

  • Animal models in psychiatry

    A. A. Boulton;Glen B. Baker;Mathew Thomas Martin-Iverson

  • Biosynthesis and excretion of meta and para tyramine in the rat.

    Alan A. Boulton;Lillian E. Dyck

  • β-Phenylethylamine enhances single cortical neurone responses to noradrenaline in the rat

    I.A. Paterson;A.A. Boulton

Frequent Co-Authors

Xin-Min Li
Xin-Min Li University of Alberta
Colin T. Dourish
Colin T. Dourish University of Oxford
Makoto Naoi
Makoto Naoi Nagoya Institute of Technology
Norton W. Milgram
Norton W. Milgram University of Toronto
Moussa B.H. Youdim
Moussa B.H. Youdim Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Scarr
Elizabeth Scarr University of Melbourne
Roland S. G. Jones
Roland S. G. Jones University of Bath

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