Rate My Professor Linda Watkins

Linda R. Watkins is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she has held her position since 1988. She also serves as a University of Colorado President’s Teaching Scholar. She earned her PhD in Physiology from the Medical College of Virginia in 1980. Her research centers on pain modulation systems, with a focus on immune and glial regulation of neuronal function, immune-to-brain communication, and glial contributions to pain, opioid analgesia, drugs of abuse, learning and memory, and neuronal excitability. Additional interests include stress-induced regulation of brain and behavior and the development of novel approaches to controlling chronic pain.