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Michael B. Hennessy is a researcher affiliated with Wright State University in the United States. Their work focuses primarily on the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with particular attention to behavioral neuroscience and social psychology. The scientist's research spans several closely related subfields, including biological psychiatry, neurology, and applied psychology.

Hennessy's research addresses topics central to understanding stress and neuroendocrine mechanisms, covering areas such as stress responses and cortisol regulation, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and the role of tryptophan in brain disorders. Additional focus areas include behavioral health and interventions, human-animal interaction studies, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, as well as memory and neural mechanisms.

The researcher has contributed to publications in several academic journals, including multiple papers in Developmental Psychobiology. Other frequent venues of publication are Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Animals, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Stress.

  • Sensitive phases in the development of rodent social behavior, 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Psychological Stress, Its Reduction, and Long-Term Consequences: What Studies with Laboratory Animals Might Teach Us about Life in the Dog Shelter, 2020, Animals
  • Presence of mother prompts dissociation of sickness behavior, fever, and hypothalamic gene expression in lipopolysaccharide-injected guinea pig pups, 2020, Developmental Psychobiology
  • Social buffering of plasma corticosterone and amygdala responses of young rats following exposure to periorbital shock: Implications for eyeblink conditioning development, 2021, Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Sensitization of depressive-like behavior is attenuated by disruption of prostaglandin synthesis days following brief early attachment-figure isolation, 2022, Developmental Psychobiology

Frequent collaborators in Hennessy's work include Patricia A. Schiml, Terrence Deak, Andrea L. Molina, Norbert Sachser, and Tobias D. Zimmermann.

Best Publications

  • Social buffering of the stress response: diversity, mechanisms, and functions.

    Michael B. Hennessy;Sylvia Kaiser;Norbert Sachser

  • Plasma Cortisol Levels of Dogs at a County Animal Shelter

    Michael B Hennessy;Harry N Davis;Michael T Williams;Carolyn Mellott

  • Influence of male and female petters on plasma cortisol and behaviour: can human interaction reduce the stress of dogs in a public animal shelter?

    Michael B Hennessy;Michael T. Williams;Deborah D Miller;Chet W Douglas

  • Behavioral and glucocorticoid responses of adult domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) to companionship and social separation

    Davis S. Tuber;Michael B. Hennessy;Suzanne Sanders;Julia A. Miller

  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to brief social separation.

    Michael B Hennessy

  • Sensitive Pituitary-Adrenal Responsiveness to Varying Intensities of Psychological Stimulation

    Michael B. Hennessy;Seymour Levine

  • Behavior and cortisol levels of dogs in a public animal shelter, and an exploration of the ability of these measures to predict problem behavior after adoption

    Michael B Hennessy;Victoria L Voith;Samuel J Mazzei;Jeff Buttram

  • Plasma corticosterone concentrations sensitively reflect levels of stimulus intensity in the rat.

    Michael B. Hennessy;John P. Heybach;Joan Vernikos;Seymour Levine

  • Behavioural profiles are shaped by social experience: when, how and why

    Norbert Sachser;Sylvia Kaiser;Michael B. Hennessy

  • Adaptive modulation of behavioural profiles by social stress during early phases of life and adolescence.

    Norbert Sachser;Michael B. Hennessy;Sylvia Kaiser

  • Dogs in Animal Shelters: Problems, Suggestions, and Needed Expertise

    David S. Tuber;Deborah D. Miller;Kimberly A. Caris;Robin Halter

  • Human interaction moderates plasma cortisol and behavioral responses of dogs to shelter housing

    Matthew D. Shiverdecker;Patricia A. Schiml;Michael B. Hennessy

  • Responses of infant Titi monkeys, Callicebus moloch, to removal of one or both parents: Evidence for paternal attachment

    Kurt A. Hoffman;Sally P. Mendoza;Michael B. Hennessy;William A. Mason

  • Comparative studies of social buffering: A consideration of approaches, terminology, and pitfalls.

    Yasushi Kiyokawa;Michael B. Hennessy

  • Cortisol responses and social buffering: A study throughout the life span

    Michael B. Hennessy;Gudrun Hornschuh;Sylvia Kaiser;Norbert Sachser

  • Sociality and sickness: Have cytokines evolved to serve social functions beyond times of pathogen exposure?

    Michael B. Hennessy;Terrence Deak;Patricia A. Schiml

  • Endocrine sensitivity to novelty in squirrel monkeys and titi monkeys: Species differences in characteristic modes of responding to the environment

    Michael B. Hennessy;Sally P. Mendoza;William A. Mason;Gary P. Moberg

  • Using hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal measures for assessing and reducing the stress of dogs in shelters: A review

    Michael B. Hennessy

  • Hormonal and Behavioral Attachment Responses in Infant Guinea Pigs

    Michael B. Hennessy;Robyn L. Ritchey

  • Factors influencing cortisol and behavioral responses to maternal separation in guinea pigs.

    Michael B. Hennessy;Laura Moorman

  • Stress-induced sickness behaviors: an alternative hypothesis for responses during maternal separation.

    Michael B. Hennessy;Terrence Deak;Patricia A. Schiml-Webb

Frequent Co-Authors

Seymour Levine
Seymour Levine Stanford University
Norbert Sachser
Norbert Sachser University of Münster
Sally P. Mendoza
Sally P. Mendoza University of California, Davis
John P. Capitanio
John P. Capitanio University of California, Davis
William A. Mason
William A. Mason University of California, Davis
Jörg T. Epplen
Jörg T. Epplen Ruhr University Bochum
Brandon E. Gibb
Brandon E. Gibb Binghamton University
Jaak Panksepp
Jaak Panksepp Washington State University

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