Elizabeth Crofton, Ph.D.

croftone@emmanuel.edu

Pharmacology & Bowles Alcohol Research Center

Education

University of Texas Medical Branch

Mentors

Melissa Herman, Ph.D. and Leslie Morrow, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Crofton is currently an Assistant Professor in neuroscience at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA

Courses

Spring 2019 Concepts in Biology II – North Carolina A&T State University Fall 2019 Fundamentals in Neurobiology – North Carolina A&T State University

Publications

Crofton EJ, O’Buckley TK, Bohnsack JP, Morrow AL, Herman MA. Divergent Population-Specific Effects of Chronic Ethanol Exposure on Excitability and Inhibitory Transmission in Male and Female Rat Central Amygdala. J Neurosci. 2023 Oct 18;43(42):7056-7068. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0717-23.2023. Epub 2023 Sep 1. PMID: 37657933; PMCID: PMC10586533.

Crofton EJ, Zhu M, Curtis KN, Nolan GW, O’Buckley TK, Morrow AL, Herman MA. Medial prefrontal cortex-basolateral amygdala circuit dysfunction in chronic alcohol-exposed male rats. Neuropharmacology. 2022 Mar 1;205:108912. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108912. Epub 2021 Dec 6. PMCID: PMC8800149.

Agoglia, AE, Crofton,EJ, Herman, MA. 2020. Biological Intersection of Sex, Age, and Environment in the Corticotropin Releasing Factor (CRF) System and Alcohol. Neuropharmacology. 170:108045 Hughes BA, Crofton EJ, O’Buckley TK, Herman MA, Morrow AL. 2019 Chronic ethanol exposure alters prelimbic prefrontal cortical Fast-Spiking and Martinotti interneuron function with differential sex specificity in rat brain. Neuropharmacology. PMCID: PMC7027948