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Psychological Sciences
College of Health and Human Sciences
 

Psychological Sciences Faculty

Terry PowleyTerry Powley

Distinguished Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience Area

Mailing Address:
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
703 Third Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2081 USA

Campus Address:
Peirce Hall, Room 165

E-mail: powleytl@psych.purdue.edu

Telephone: (765) 494-6269


Degree: Wisconsin, 1970

Research Interests:

My interests are focused on mapping and analyzing the nerve circuits in the brain and the body that control food intake.

Recent Publications:

Miranda, A., Mickle, A., Medda, B., Zhang, Z., Phillips, R. J., Tipnis, N., Powley, T. L., Shaker, R., and Sengupta, J. N.  (2009).  Altered mechanosensitive properties of vagal afferent fibers innervating the stomach following gastric surgery in rats. Neuroscience, 162:1299-1306, 2009. (doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.05.042)

Phillips R. J., Walter G. C, Powley T. L. (2009). Age-related changes in vagal afferents innervating the gastrointestinal tract.  Auton Neurosci. doi:10.1016 /j.autneu.2009.07.009.

Phillips R. J., Walter G. C., Ringer BE, Higgs KM, Powley T. L. (2009). Alpha-synuclein Immunopositive aggregates in the myenteric plexus of the aging Fischer 344 rat.  Exp Neurol 220:109-119.

Walter G. C., Phillips RJ, Baronowsky E. A., Powley T. L. (2009). Versatile, high resolution anterograde labeling of vagal efferent projections with dextran amines.  J Neurosci Methods 178:1-9.

Powley, T. L.  Hunger.  In:  Berntson, G. G., and Cacioppo, J. T. (editors), Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 2,  John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2009, pp. 659-679.

Phillips, R.J., Walter, G.C., and Powley, T.L. Age-related changes in vagal afferents innervating the gastrointestinal tract. Autonomic Neuroscience, Basic clin, (2010), 153 (1-2):90-98; doi:10.1016/j.autneu.2009.07.009.

Powley, T.L., Spaulding, R.A., and Haglof, S.A. Vagal afferent innervations of the proximal gastrointestinal tract mucosa: Chemoreceptor and mechanoreceptor architecture. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 519: 644-660; [(2010), DOI: 10.1002/cne.22541].

Powley, T. L., & Phillips, R. J.  (2011) Vagal intramuscular array afferents form complexes with interstitial cells of Cajal in gastrointestinal smooth muscle:  Analogues of spindle organs?  Neuroscience, 186: 188-200.  doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.04.036

Powley, T. L., Spaulding, R. A., & Haglof, S. A. (2011)  Vagal afferent innervation of the proximal gastrointestinal tract mucosa:  Chemoreceptor and mechanoreceptor architecture.  Journal of Comparative Neurology, 519:  644-660.  doi:  10.1002/cne.22541

Schier, L. A., Davidson, T. L., & Powley, T. L.  (2011) Ongoing ingestive behavior is rapidly suppressed by a preabsorptive, intestinal “bitter taste” cue.  American Journal of Physiology, 301: R1557-R1568.  doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00344.2011