Dr. Deborah L. Mangold Assistant Professor
Biographical Sketch

Dr. Deborah L. Mangold received her B.S. in Psychology at The Johns Hopkins University, M.S. in Clinical Psychology at The Loyola College in Maryland and Ph.D. in Biological Psychology at Howard University.  Dr. Mangold’s doctoral dissertation focused on an examination of the effects of the opioid antagonist naloxone on the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis in non-dependent individuals with a family history of alcoholism.  Her doctoral thesis was completed under the direction of Dr. Gary Wand, in his laboratory at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Following the completion of her doctoral dissertation, Dr Mangold completed post-doctoral training in Neuroendocrinology and Human Genetics at the Brain Research Institute, The University of California, Los Angeles, in the laboratories of Dr. Anna Taylor and Dr. Ernest Noble.   Dr. Mangold joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at UTSA in 2003 and is currently a member of the American Psychological Society, The Southwestern Psychological Society and the Research Society on Alcoholism. While at UTSA, Dr. Mangold’s program of research continues to focus on the HPA and opioid systems and has recently expanded to include investigations of the effects of genotype, acculturative stress and familial violence on neurohormonal, immune and health outcomes.             Representative Publications: Mangold, D.L., Kalechstein, A. & Newton, T. (2001), June. A meta-analysis: Neuropychological deficits associated with methamphetamine depdendence.  Proceedings of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the College of Problems on Drug Dependence.  Scottdale, Arizona. Mangold, D. L., Peyrot, M. E., Ali, M. & Wand, G. S. (2000).  Plasma adrenocorticotropin response to opioid blockade with naloxone:  Generating a dose-response curve in a single session. Biological Psychiatry, 48, 310-314. Mangold, D. L., Peyrot, M., Giggey, P. & Wand, G. S. (2000).  Endogenous opioid activity is associated with obsessive-compulsive symptomatology in individuals with a family history of alcoholism.  Neuropsychopharmacology, 22(6), 595-607. Bensherif, B., Ilgin, N., Wand, G. S., Eldeiry, S., Mangold, D.L., Musachio, J. L., Raver, H., T., Mathews, W. B., Dannals, R. F., & Frost, J. J. (1999, June).  Statistical parametric mapping of brain opioid receptor binding changes in chronic alcoholism.  Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting for the Society of Nuclear Mediine, Los Angeles, CA.  Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 40(5), 110-111. Wand, G. S., Mangold, D. L., Ali, M., & Giggey, P. (1999).  Adrenocortisol responses and family history of alcoholism.  Alcoholism Clin Exp, 23, 1185-1190. Wand, G. S., Mangold, D. L., ElDeiry, S., Mc Caul, M. E. & Hoover, D. (1998).  Family history of alcoholism and hypothalamic opioidergic activity.  Arch Gen Psychiatry, 55, 1114-1119. Ilgin, N., Eldeiry, S., Mangold, D. L., Dannals, H. T., Raver, W. B., Mathews, J. L., Musachio, J. L., McCaul, M. E.,  Wand, G. S.,  & Frost, J. J. (1997, June).  Measurement of brain mu opioid receptor binding in alcohol dependence by PET.  Proceedings of the 44th  Annual Meeting for the Society of Nuclear Medicine, San Antonio, TX.  Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 12(5), 115-116.