Hubert K. Rucker, Ph.D.
Sr. Associate Vice President for Research
Department of Professional Education,
Department of Biomedical Sciences and

615-327-6288
Office For Research,
Room 2201 H.D. West
1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Boulevard
Nashville, TN  37208

hrucker@mmc.edu

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B.S., Biology, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, 1967
Ph.D. Physiology, Howard University, Washington, DC., 1984
Postdoctoral Study, Tarbox Parkinson’s Disease Institute, TTHSC, Lubbock, Texas, 1985

Sensory and Motor systems neuroscience, and the teaching of professional and graduate students.  Past research focused on cortical neurophysiology of reward based behavior.

Rucker, H.K, Wynder, H.J. and Thomas, W.E.  Cellular mechanisms of CNS pericytes.  Brain Res. Bull.  51: 363-369, 2000.

Floyd, E.A., Reasor, J.D., Moore, E.L. and Rucker, H.K. Effects of chronic ethanol ingestion on mid-latency auditory evoked potentials depend on length of exposure. Alcohol 14:269-279, 1997.

Floyd, E.A., Young-Seigler, A.C., Ford, B.D., Reasor, J.D., Townsel, J.G. and Rucker, H.K. chronic ethanol ingestion produces cholinergic hypofunction in rat brain.  Alcohol 14:93-98, 1997.

Floyd, E.A., Keaton, A.K., Clark, J.T., and Rucker, H.K., Chronic ethanol ingestion alters parameters of mid-latency auditory evoked potential in male rats. Alcohol 12:15-22, 1995.