Russell Romeo
Department
Neuroscience & Behavior
Office
Office Hours
Contact
Russell D. Romeo joined the Barnard faculty in 2007. He teaches such courses as Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience; Psychobiology of Stress; Adolescent Neurobehavioral Development; and Senior Research Seminar.
Professor Romeo’s research laboratory studies pubertal maturation of neuroendocrine systems and how the development of these systems impact physiology and behavior.
- B.A., Edinboro University
- M.S., Villanova University
- Ph.D., Michigan State University
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Rockefeller University
- Behavioral Neuroscience
- Developmental Psychobiology
- Neuroendocrinology
(Barnard students in italics)
Parkin, C., Ortiz, J., Cruz, S., Bath, K. G., and Romeo, R. D. (2025). Pubertal- and stress dependent changes in cellular activation and expression of excitatory amino acid receptor subunits in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus in male and female rats. Developmental Neuroscience. 47:206-216.
Shahanoor, Z., Sultana, R., Savenkova, M., Karatsoreos, I. N., and Romeo, R. D.(2023). Metabolic dysfunction following chronic oral corticosterone are modified by adolescence and sex in mice. Physiology and Behavior. 269:114289.
Kann, R. B. and Romeo, R. D. (2022). Pubertal changes in the pituitary and adrenal glands of male and female rats: relevance to stress reactivity. Neurobiology of Stress. 18:100457.doi:10.1016/j.ynstr.2022.100457.
Baker, M. R., Sciortino, R. K., So, V. M., and Romeo, R. D. (2021). Prepubertal and adult male rats differ in the degree and pattern of stress reactive neurons in brain regions that project to the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. Brain Research. 1760:147371.
Romeo, R.D. and Sciortino, R. K. (2021). Age-dependent changes in hormonal stress reactivity following repeated restraint stress throughout adolescence in male rats. Stress. 24:496-503.
In The News
The panel ‘Grey Matter’ brought together experts on teen brain development to empower parents to support their kids during these stressful times.