Rodney Pelchat, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Contact Dr. Pelchat

1020 Sansom Street
Thompson Building, Suite 1652
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 503-1239
(215) 955-8473 (fax)

Medical School
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (1984)

Residency
Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (1988)

Fellowship
Geropsychiatry, Baltimore VAMC, Baltimore, MD (1989)

Board Certification
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certified in Psychiatry
Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry

University Appointment
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Research and Clinical Interests
Geriatric Psychiatry, ECT

Publications

1. Sexual and maternal behaviour at the postpartum oestrus: The role of experience in time-sharing
2. Memory for feeding time: Possible dependence on coupled circadian oscillators
3. Postpartum copulatory and maternal behaviour in Norway rats under seminatural conditions
4. Acute elevation of the heat load of mother rats curtails maternal nest bouts