NAME: J. Timothy Cannon, Ph.D.
ADDRESS: Department of Psychology
Alumni Memorial Hall
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA l85l0-4596
(7l7) 9414266
CANNON@UOFS.EDU
htpp://academic.uofs.edu/faculty/cannon
307 Stony Creek Rd.
Clarks Summit, PA 18411
(7l7) 586-2022
BIRTHDATE: August 26, 1949
BIRTHPLACE: Scranton, PA
CITIZENSHIP: U.S.A.
EDUCATION: 197779 University of California, Los Angeles
Postdoctoral Training
Sponsor: John C. Liebeskind, Ph.D.
197177 University of Maine, Orono
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, June, 1977
196771 University of Scranton
B.S., Psychology, June, 1971
DISSERTATION: Doctoral Dissertation: Behavioral and Neuroanatomical
Analyses of the Pinna (Preyer) Reflex and Escape from
Intense Noise in the Rat. Major Advisor: Robert M.
Abelson, Ph.D.
CURRENT POSITION: 1981- University of Scranton, Department of Psychology,
Associate Professor (1986)
Associate Chair (1987-Present)
Director, Neuroscience (formerly Psychobiology) Major
(1987-present)
PAST EMPLOYMENT: 1981-86, 88-89 (Summers) Visiting Assoc. (formerly, Asst.)
Professor, UCLA
1980-81 Assistant Research Psychologist, UCLA
TEACHING Behavioral Neuroscience (lower and upper division)
EXPERIENCE: Graduate Seminar in "Neural Mechanisms of Pain and Pain
Inhibition" (Team taught with J.C. Liebeskind)
Pain Research and Treatment
Psychopharmacology
Research Methods Lab
Statistics
Sensation and Perception
Learning and Memory
Behavior Modification (Team taught with J.C. Norcross)
Fundamentals of Psychology
PROFESSIONAL International Association for the Study of Pain
AFFILIATIONS: Society for Neuroscience
American Psychological Society
New York Academy of Sciences
Sigma Xi
American Association for the Advancement of Science
AWARDS AND 1995 CASE Professor of the Year, State of PA, 1995
HONORS: 1992 NSF ILI Grant (17K)
1987 Merit Salary Increases for General Excellence
1977-79 NIH Postdoctoral Traineeship
1972-73 NDEA Fellowship
1971 NSF Summer Research Program
Workshops: Applying to graduate programs in clinical psychology: not
for students only!. Eastern Psychological Association, 1992.
Applying to graduate school in Psychology: A mini-workshop.
Eastern Psychological Association, 1993.
Applying to graduate school in psychology: Getting started,
getting in. Invited workshop, 1994.
INVITED ADDRESSES: 1980 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Regional
Anesthesiologists, San Francisco, CA
1981 10th International Congress of Electroencephalography
and Clinical Neurophysiology, "The Epileptic and
Anticonvulsant Properties of Opioid Peptides", Kyoto, Japan
1985 American Association for the Study of Pain, "Descending
PainInhibitory Mechanisms", Dallas, TX
1986 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology,Albany
Medical School "Descending Mechanisms of PainInhibition",
Albany, NY
1987 Baylor College of Medicine, "Anatomy and Physiology of
Pain", Houston, TX
1989 International Symposium on East-West Medicine
(Sponsored by the World Health Organization), "Analgesic
Effects of Electrical Brain Stimulation and Stress", Seoul,
South-Korea
1993 Keynote Address, 20th Annual Meeting of the
Illinois/Iowa Undergraduate Psychology Conference, "Pain,
Stress, Immunity, and Cancer," Knox College, Galesburg, IL
1994 Cannon, J.T. Pain Stress, Immunity, and Cancer.
Invited address, Psychology Department, Bloomsburg
University, Bloomsburg, PA
1995 Cannon, J.T. Pain Stress, Immunity, and Cancer.
Invited address, NSF Sponsored Workshop for High School
Teachers of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Ithaca
College, Ithaca, NY
1995 Cannon, J.T. Biological Bases of Learning Disabilites.
Invited address, NSF, AAAS Invitational Conference on
Teaching Science and Mathematics to Students with Learning
Disabilities, Washington, DC
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS: Brain Research
The Journal Pain
Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior
Psychopharmacology
American Scientist
Allyn & Bacon
W.C. Brown Co.
Harper & Row
SPECIALTY AREAS: Primary Instruction and Research Interests:
Behavioral Neuroscience
Pain Research and Treatment
Psychopharmacology
Examinations of the functional neuroanatomy and
neuropharmacology of endogenous pain inhibitory mechanisms
INSTITUTIONAL Proposed and serve as director of Neuroscience (formerly
SERVICE: Psychobiology) Major (1987-Present)
(representative) Chair, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
(1987-Present)
Proposed and served on Advisory Committee for the
development of a Faculty-Student Research Program (1990)
Founder and Faculty Chair of annual University of Scranton,
Psychology Conference (1984-Present)
Faculty Advisor (founding), American Psychological Society
Student Caucus (1990-Present)
Member, Faculty Senate (3 terms)
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS & PAPER PRESENTATIONS:
Cannon, J.T., Abelson, R.M., and Morley, B.J. Permanent enhancement of escape from noise responding by a single extended intersession interval. Abst. of the Eastern Psych. Assoc., 1974.
Cannon, J.T., Abelson, R.M., and Morley, B.J. Decreased escape from both footshock and intense white noise produced by parachlorophenylalanine in the rat. Abst. of the Eastern Psych. Assoc., 1975.
Cannon, J.T., Abelson, R.M., and Rios, D. Behavioral and neuroanatomical independence of the pinna and acoustic startle reflexes. Abst. of the Eastern Psych. Assoc., 1976.
Cannon, J.T., Abelson, R.M., Potthoff, A.D., and Gage, P. Analyses of the relationships between the pinna and acoustic startle reflexes and escape from intense noise in the rat. Abst. of the Eastern Psych. Assoc., 1977.
Potthoff, A.D., Abelson, R.M., Perkins, F., and Cannon, J.T. Potentiation of the Preyer Reflex after intense auditory stimulation in white rats. Abst. of the Eastern Psych. Assoc., 1978.
Giesler, G.J., Jr., Cannon, J.T., Urca, G., and Liebeskind, J.C. Long ascending projections of substantia gelatinosa Rolandi and of small cells of the subjacent dorsal horn in the rat. Pain Abst., 1:239, 1978.
Cannon, J.T., and Abelson, R.M. Multibehavioral analysis of escape from intense noise in the rat. Pain Abst., 1:69, 1978.
Cannon, J.T., and Giesler, G.J., Jr. Projections of the cochlear nucleus and superior olivary complex to the inferior colliculus of the rat. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 4:4, 1978.
Prieto, G.J., Giesler, G.J., Jr., and Cannon, J.T. Evidence for site specificity in naloxone's antagonism of stimulationproduced analgesia in the rat. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 5:6l4, 1979.
Cannon, J.T., Nahin, R.L., Ryan, S.M., Moskowitz, A.S., and Liebeskind, J.C. Relative analgesic and epileptic potencies of various opiate drugs. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 5:190, 1979.
Cannon, J.T., Prieto, G.J., Lee, A., and Liebeskind, J.C. Antagonism of stimulationproduced analgesia by naloxone: Effects of stimulation site, dose, and time. Fed. Proc., 39:603, 1980.
ABSTRACTS--CONTINUED:
Cannon, J.T., Prieto, G.J., and Liebeskind, J.C. Disruption of stimulationproduced analgesia by lesions of the nucleus raphe magnus. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 6:321, 1980.
Chudler, E.H., Lewis, J.W., Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. Electroconvulsive shockinduced analgesia: Antagonism by naloxone and effects of hypophysectomy. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 6:434, 1980.
Weinberg, V.E., Lewis, J.W., Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. Evidence for the involvement of central cholinergic mechanisms in opioid stress analgesia. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 7:879, 1981.
Lewis, J.W., Cannon, J.T., Liebeskind, J.C., and Akil, H. Alterations in brain Bendorphin immunoreactivity following acute and chronic stress. Pain Suppl. 1:S263, 1981.
Cannon, J.T., Lewis, J.W., Weinberg, V.E., and Liebeskind, J.C. Lesions of n. raphe magnus differentially affect nonopioid and opioid stress analgesia. Abst. of AAAS, 159, 1982.
Cannon, J.T., Maro, N., Telep, B., and Carty, G. Differential effects of naloxone on analgesia and vocalizations induced by brief durations of pulsed footshock. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 9:793, 1983.
Cannon, J.T., Terman, G.W., Lewis, J.W. and Liebeskind, J.C. Variations of shock intensity alter the neurochemical basis of stress analgesia independently of the body regions shocked. Pain Abst., 2:S48, 1984.
Depaulis, A., Cannon, J. T., Morgan, M. M. and Liebeskind, J. C. Difference in the characteristics of the neuronal populations underlying two forms of stimulationproduced analgesia in the periaqueductal gray matter of the rat. FASEB Abst., 44:1725, 1985.
Gogas, K. R., Kirtland, D. S. and Cannon, J. T. Variations in saccharin intake are related to formalin pain reactivity and the analgesic effects of morphine. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 11:132, 1985.
Kirtland, D. S., Gogas, K. R., Barba, C. A., Ratzin, A. A. and Cannon, J. T. The effect of ethanol consumption on the formalin test. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 11:131, 1985.
Cannon, J.T., Shavit, Y, and Liebeskind, J.C. Rotation speed can determine whether the resulting stressinduced analgesia is blocked by naloxone. Proc. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 467:425-427, 1986.
ABSTRACTS--CONTINUED:
Sakihara, J., Morgan, M.M., Missar, C.D., and Cannon, J.T. Nonopioid and opioid PAG stimulation-produced analgesia dorsal/ventral site specificity. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 12:231, 1986.
Missar, C.D., and Cannon, J.T. The role of shock intensity in defining the effects of naloxone on analgesia produced by brief stress. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 12:619, 1986.
Cannon, J.T., Gunn, K.H., Cannon, B.J., Thomas, B.L., and Utz, J.P. Saccharin intake differentially correlates with the analgesic states elicited by two footshock parameters. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 13:990, 1987.
Gunn, K.H., and Cannon, J.T. The moon illusion: Do we all see it? Abst. of the Eastern Psych. Assoc., 59:25, 1988.
Cannon, J.T., Walsh, E.W., Roat, D.B., and Liskowicz, R.J. The tail-flick reflex: interactions between testing site, pentobarbital anesthesia, trail and inter-flick-interval. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 14:711, 1988.
Levine, R., Morgan, M.M., Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. Comparison of descending inhibition of nociceptive hindpaw and tail-flick reflexes from stimulation of the periaqueductal gray matter (PAG) in the rat. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 15:150, 1989.
Cannon, J.T., Yirmiya, R., and Liebeskind, J.C. Naloxone-sensitive inhibition of limb-withdrawal reflexes produced by electrical stimulation of the arcuate nucleus in anesthetized mice. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 15:150, 1989.
Cannon, J.T., Walsh, E.W., Henry, R.E., and Bolan, E.A. Tail-flick parameters can determine whether naltrexone decreases or increases flick latencies following footshock stress. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 16:89, 1990.
Bolan, E.A., Iannone, V.N., O'Neill, J.G., and Cannon, J.T. Behavioral and parametric analyses of the tail-flick: Further evidence that all flicks are not alike. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 17:107, 1991.
Dennis, S.A., Weihbrecht, E.J., and Cannon, J.T. Altering the heat source can change tail-flick topography and pattern of sensitization. Abst. of the Eastern Psych. Assoc., 63:16, 1992.
O'Connell, R., Iannone, V.N., and Cannon, J.T. Cognitive impairment is correlated with participation in competitive soccer, American Psychological Society, Abst., 32, 1992.
ABSTRACTS--CONTINUED:
Baldwin, A.E., Weihbrecht, J.G., O'Neill III, J.G., & Cannon, J.T. Sensitization of the tail-flick reflex following exposure to a single prolonged test stimulus, Soc. for Neurosci. Abst., 18:292, 1992.
Cannon, B.J., Derr, S.L., O'Connell, R.C., Iannone , V.N., Cannon, J.T. Comparison of Stroop color-word test and Direction-word test: Replication and Extension. Abst. of the Eastern Psych. Assoc., April, 1993.
Griffiths, T.M., Tomcho, T.J., Cannon, J.T. Evidence for short-term decrements in Stroop color-word interference scores following heading in soccer. Abst. of the Eastern Psych. Assoc., April, 1993.
Myers, K.P., & Cannon, J.T. Analog and digital response dimensions: Scale perception, equivalence, and the form-resistance hypothesis. American Psychological Society, Abst., 65:31, 1993.
Baldwin, A.E., Myers, K.P., Willi, J.P., Newman, K.K., Dilley, M.R., & Cannon, J.T. Behavioral testing may produce tail-flick hyperalgesia in rats acutely treated with morphine. Soc. for Neurosci. Abst., 19:1796, 1993.
Myers, K.P., Marzocco, S.S., Baldwin, A.E., & Cannon, J.T. The use of multimedia authoring software to create customized DOS-based interactive instructional programs. Soc. for Neurosci. Abst., 19:213, 1993.
Mayne, T. J., Cannon, J. T., Brust, A. M., Norcross, J. C., & Halgin, R. P. Applying to graduate school in psychology: A mini-workshop. Invited Psi Chi panel presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Arlington, VA, 1993.
Accardo, C. M., Aboyoun, D. C., Alford, B. A., & Cannon, J. T. Diaries: Who keeps them and why. Abst. of the Eastern Psych. Assoc., 1994.
O'Brien, J.P., Brennan, R.J., Wheeler, R.A., Baldwin, A.E., & Cannon, J.T. Tail-flick latency: Interactions with tail-temperature and inter-flick interval in anesthetized rats. Soc. for Neurosci. Abst., 20:764, 1994.
Brennan, R.J., O'Brien, J.P., DeMarco, P.J., Baldwin, A.E., & Cannon, J.T. Tail-flick:
Test interval can modify the development of both sensitization and morphine analgesia. Soc. for Neurosci. Abst., 21:1167, 1995.
PUBLICATIONS:
Dunstone, J.J., Cannon, J.T., Chickson, J.T., and Burns, W.K. Persistence and vigor of shockinduced aggression in gerbils (Merionens Ungiculatus). Psychonomic Science, 28:272274, 1972.
Abelson, R.M., Morley, B.J., and Cannon, J.T. Selection for an instrumental responseescape from intense noise. Journal of Auditory Research, 13:152156, 1973.
Morley, B.J., Abelson, R.M., and Cannon, J.T. Escape from stimulation of the trapezoid body in rats bred for escape from noise. Physiology and Behavior, 18:3539, 1977.
*Cannon, J.T., Liebeskind, J.C., and Frenk, H. Neural and neurochemical mechanisms of pain inhibition. In: The Psychology of Pain, edited by R.A. Sternbach. Raven Press, New York, pp. 2747, 1978.
Giesler, G.J., Jr., Cannon, J.T., Urca, G., and Liebeskind, J.C. Long ascending projections from substantia gelatinosa Rolandi and the subjacent dorsal horn in the rat. Science, 202:984986, 1978.
*Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. Descending control systems. In: Mechanisms of Pain and Analgesic Compounds, edited by R.F. Beers and E.G. Bassett, pp. 171184. Raven Press, New York, 1979.
Giesler, G.J., Jr., Urca, G., Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. Response properties of neurons of the lateral cervical nucleus in the rat. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 186:6578, 1979.
Lewis, J.W., Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. Opioid and nonopioid mechanisms of stress analgesia. Science, 208:623625, 1980.
Lewis, J.W., Cannon, J.T., Stapleton, J.M., and Liebeskind, J.C. Stress activates endogenous paininhibitory systems: Opioid and nonopioid mechanisms. Proc. Est. Pharmacol. Soc., 23:8688, 1980.
*Lewis, J.W., Cannon, J.T., Ryan, S.M., and Liebeskind, J.C. Behavioral pharmacology of opioid peptides. In: Role of Peptides in Neuronal Function, edited by J.L. Barker, pp. 742763, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1980.
*Lewis, J.W., CaldecottHazard, S., Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. Possible role of opioid peptides in pain inhibition and seizures. In: Neurosecretion and Brain Peptides: Implications for Brain Function and Neurological Disease, edited by J.B. Martin, pp. 213224, Raven Press, New York, 1981.
PUBLICATIONS--CONTINUED:
Lewis, J.W., Cannon, J.T., Chudler, E.H., and Liebeskind, J.C. Effects of naloxone and hypophysectomy on electroconvulsive shockinduced analgesia. Brain Research, 208:230233, 1981.
Lewis, J.W., Chudler, E.H., Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. Hypophysectomy differentially affects morphine and stress analgesia. Proc. West. Pharmacol. Soc., 24:230233, 1981.
Liebeskind, J.C., Sherman, J.E., and Cannon, J.T. Neural and neurochemical mechanisms of pain inhibition. Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, 10:139143, 1982.
*Cannon, J.T., CaldecottHazard, S., Shavit, Y., Lewis, J.W., and Liebeskind, J.C. The epileptic and anticonvulsant properties of opioid peptides. In: The Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Henri Gostout and the Marseilles School's Contribution to the Neurosciences (EEG Suppl. No35), pp. 3035, 1982.
Cannon, J.T., Prieto, G.J., Lee, A., and Liebeskind, J.C. Evidence for opioid and nonopioid forms of stimulationproduced analgesia in the rat. Brain Research, 243:315321, 1982.
Prieto, G.J., Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. N. Raphe magnus lesions disrupt stimulationproduced analgesia from ventral but not dorsal midbrain areas in the rat. Brain Research, 261:5357, l983.
Lewis, J.W., Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. Involvement of central muscarinic cholinergic mechanisms in opioid stress analgesia. Brain Research, 270:289293, 1983.
Cannon, J.T., Lewis, J.W., Weinberg, V.E., and Liebeskind, J.C. Evidence for the independence of brain stem mechanisms mediating analgesia induced by morphine and two forms of stress. Brain Research, 269:231236, 1983.
Cannon, J.T., Terman, G.W., Lewis, J.W., and Liebeskind, J.C. Body region shocked need not critically define the neurochemical basis of stress analgesia. Brain Research, 323:316319, 1984.
Terman, G.W., Shavit, Y., Lewis, J.W., Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. Intrinsic mechanisms of pain inhibition and their activation by stress. Science, 226: 12701277, 1984.
*Liebeskind, J.C., Sherman, J.E., Cannon, J. T. and Terman, G. W. Neural and neurochemical mechanisms of pain inhibition. In: Seminars in Anesthesia, edited by G.J. Katz, Raven Press: New York, 4, 218222, 1985.
PUBLICATIONS--CONTINUED:
*Frenk, H., Cannon, J. T., Lewis, J. W., and Liebeskind, J. C. Neural and neurochemical mechanisms of pain inhibition. In: The Psychology of Pain, 2nd edition, edited by R. A. Sternbach. Raven Press: New York, pp. 2547, 1986.
*Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. Analgesic effects of brain stimulation and stress: Brain Stem Mechanisms, Pain & Headache, edited by H. Akil and J.W. Lewis, 9:283-294, 1987.
Levine, R., Morgan, M.M., Cannon, J.T., and Liebeskind, J.C. Stimulation of the periaqueductal gray matter of the rat produces a preferential ipsilateral antinociception. Brain Research, 567:140-144, 1991.
Baril, G.L., & Cannon, J.T. (1995). What is the probability that null hypothesis testing is meaningless? American Psychologist, 50, 1098-1099.
Accardo, C.M., Aboyoun, D.C., Alford, B.A., & Cannon, J.T. (in press). Diaries: Who keeps them and why. Perceptual and Motor Skills.
Baldwin, A.E., & Cannon, J.T. (in press). Sensitization of the tail-flick reflex following exposure to either a single prolonged test trial or behavioral testing under the analgesic influence of morphine. Pain.
* Book chapters
REFERENCES:
John C. Liebeskind, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90024
John C. Norcross, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510
Galen L. Baril, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510
Community Service:
Presentations
"A Skeptical View of ESP and the Paranormal," 11 & 12th Grades (2 presentations), Bishop Hannon High School
"A Skeptical View of ESP and the Paranormal," 12th Grade, Bishop O'Hara High School
"A Skeptical View of UFO's," 5th Grade, Whittier School
"The Brain and Sensory Systems," 3rd Grade, Lincoln Jackson Elementary School
"The Brain and Sensory Systems," 5th Grade, John Marshal Elementary School
U of S Service:
Presentations
"Love is an Addiction," Gavigan Hall
"Pain, Stress, Immunity, and Cancer," Sophomore Parents Weekend
"Biological Bases Pharmacology," DICE