Ph.D. in Biological Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
M.Phil. in Biological Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
B.A. in Psychology and Special Honors Program, Hunter College

Dr. Tulloch earned a B.A. in Psychology at Hunter College and a Ph.D. in Biological Psychology at the City University of New York Graduate School. She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Molecular Neuropsychiatry Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health studying molecular mechanisms of methamphetamine toxicity. Before joining the Morgan State faculty, she was an assistant professor of psychology at Stevenson University.

Dr. Tulloch's research utilizes human participants and animal models to study the developmental neurobiology of risky adult behaviors and cognitive aging. In the lab, she examines specific life experiences such as discrimination, violent victimization, and under-resourced environments during development. She measures the activity of inflammatory cytokine genes associated with such life experiences and the interactions between these variables for making predictions about young adult substance use and aging-related memory deficits.

Director: Animal Research Facility

Area of Specialization: Neurobiology of Risky Behavior
Secondary Area of Specialization: Role of immune function in risky health behaviors such as sexual behaviors and substance use

Undergraduate Courses Taught: Physiological Psychology, Scientific Methods, Senior Research Thesis