Academic Career
Publications
Savidge, L.E. and Bales, K.L. (2023). Possible effects of pair bonds on general cognition: Evidence from shared roles of dopamine. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 152.
Witczak, L.R., Arias del Razo, R., Baxter, A., Conley, A.J., Cotterman, R., Dufek, M., Goetze, L.R., Lau, A.R., Mendoza, S.P., Savidge, L.E., Bales, K.L. Relationships between cortisol and urinary androgens in female titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus), Accepted at General and Comparative Endocrinology
Arias-del Razo, R.A., Velasco Vazquez, M.L., Turcanu, P., Legrand, M., Weinstein, T.A.R., Goetze, L.R., Freeman, S.M., Baxter, A., Witczakm L.R., Sahagun, E., Berger, T., Conley, A.J., Jacob, S., Lawrence, R.H., Rothwell, E.S., Savidge, L.E., Solomon, M., Mendoza, S.P., Bales, K.L. (Submitted for publication). Long term effects of chronic intranasal oxytocinon adult behavior and glucose uptake in titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus). Hormones and Behavior
Bales, K.L., Ardekani, C.S., Baxter, A., Karaskiewicz, C.L., Kuske, J., Lau, A., Savidge, L.E., Sayler, K.R., Witczak, L.R. What is a pair bond? Hormones and Behavior, 136. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.105062
Witczak, L.R., Arias del Razo, R., Baxter, A., Conley, A.J., Dufek, M., Goetze, L.R., Lau. A.R., Mendoza, S.P., Savidge, L.E., Bales, K.L. Relationship between cortisol and testosterone in female titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus) (In progress).
Savidge, L. E. and Bales, K. L. (2020). An animal model for mammalian attachment: Infant Titi Monkey (Plecturocebus cupreus) attachment behavior is associated with their social behavior as adults. Frontiers in Psychology (Special Issue: The science of Pair-Bonding and Future Directions, 11. doi. 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00025
Rothwell, E. S., Carp, S. B., Savidge, L. E., Mendoza, S. P., Bales, K. L. (2020). Relationship tenure differentially influences pair-bond behavior in male and female socially monogamous titi monkeys (Callicebus cupreus). American Journal of Primatology, 82. doi:10.1002/ajp.23181
Arias del Razo, R., Berger, T., Conley, A. J., Freeman, M. S., Goetze, L. R., Jacob, S., Savidge, L.E.,… Bales, K.L. (2020). Effects of chronic intranasal oxytocin on behavior and cerebral glucose uptake in juvenile Titi Monkeys. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104494
Simmons, T. C., Rothwell, E. S., Savidge, L. E., Arias, R., & Bales, K. L. (2019). Neurobiology of Pair Bonding. In J. C. Choe (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (2nd ed., Vol. 4, pp. 262–273). Elsevier, Academic Press.
Bales, K. L., Witczak, L. R., Simmons, T. C., Savidge, L. E., Rothwell, E. S., Rogers, F. D., … Arias del Razo, R. (2018). Social Touch During Development: Long-Term Effects on Brain and Behavior. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 95, 202–219. https://doi.org/10.1080/00927879808826159
Romanov, R. A., Lasher, R. S., High, B., Savidge, L.E., Lawson, A., Rogachevskaja, O. A., … Finger, E. (2018). Chemical synapses without synaptic vesicles: Purinergic neurotransmission through a CALHM1 channel-mitochondrial signaling complex. Sci. Signal (Vol. 11). Retrieved from http://stke.sciencemag.org/
Poster Presentations
Savidge, L.S., Zablocki-Thomas, P.B., Freeman, S.M., Ferrer, E., Witczak, L.R., Bales, K.L. Neural correlates and effect of jealousy on cognitive flexibility in Female Titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus). Presented at the Annual Neuroscience Meeting, November 15th, 2022.
Savidge, L.S. and Bales, K.L. Cognitive performance in captive female coppery titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus) during pair bond formation. Presented at the 43rd Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists. November, 18th, 2021.
Savidge, L.S. and Bales, K.L., Parenting related changes in coppery titi monkey (Plecurocebus cupreus) cognitive flexibility. Accepted for Presentation at the 43rd Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists. Cancelled due to Covid.
Savidge, L.S. and Bales, K.L., Infantile attachment behavior is predictive of adult attachment behavior in titi monkeys (Plecurocebus cupreus). Presented at the 42nd Meeting of the American Society of Primatology, August 23, 2019. Madison, WI.