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Education
The University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Shannon Crowley, Ph.D. obtained her doctorate in Exercise Science from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, and concurrently obtained a certificate of graduate study in Psychiatric Rehabilitation from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Following her doctoral program, Dr. Crowley completed a NRSA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, in the Program in Women鈥檚 Mood Disorders at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, where she won the prestigious Postdoctoral Scholar Award for Research Excellence. Dr. Crowley鈥檚 research interests focus on psychobiological aspects of exercise and physical activity, and in particular, stress-related mechanisms by which exercise may help to prevent and treat depression and anxiety disorders. In this capacity, she has conducted research in various populations at risk for depression and anxiety disorders, including soldiers undergoing basic combat training in the United States Army, veterans and active duty military personnel returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom with diagnosed Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, and women in pregnancy and postpartum at risk for postpartum depression.

Dr. Crowley is currently an Associate Professor of Public Health at 麻豆原创 in Rocky Mount, NC, and also serves as the Masters of Public Health Program Director and Program Coordinator for the Department of Health Promotion. She is highly active in teaching and student-driven research at NCWU, focusing on health aspects of physical activity and exercise in both her teaching and research arenas.

Selected Scholarly Work

• Crowley, SK. 鈥淓xercise, Depression-Anxiety Disorders and Sex Hormones鈥� in Sex Hormones, Exercise and Women: Scientific and Clinical Aspects, 2nd Edition. (Anthony C. Hackney, PhD, Ed.) Springer Science and Business Media, LLC. New York, NY , 2023.听
• M. Magal, R. A. Valladarez Cuestas, S. K. Crowley, V. B. Batchelor & J. R. Hoffman. (In Press, 2023). Seasonal Changes in Physical Performance鈥揜elated Variables in Women NCAA Division III Soccer Players. Gazzetta Medica Italiana-Archivio per le Scienze Mediche.听
• Youngstedt听SD, Ginsberg JP, Kline CE, Crowley SK, Reynolds AM, Burch JB, Han SY. Bright light treatment of combat-related PTSD: A randomized controlled trial.听Military Medicine. 2021.听Epub听ahead of print.
• Crowley SK,听Rebellon听J, Huber C, Leonard AJ, Henderson D, Magal M. Cardiorespiratory fitness, sleep, and physiological responses to stress in women.听Eur J Sport Sci. 2020 Jan 25:1-10.听doi: 10.1080/17461391.2020.1716855.
• Crowley SK,听O鈥橞uckley听TK, Schiller CE,听Stuebe听A, Morrow AL, and Girdler SS. Blunted neuroactive steroid and HPA axis responses to stress are associated with reduced sleep quality and negative affect in pregnancy: a pilot study.听Psychopharmacology. 2016; 233(7):1299-310.听
• Crowley SK, Pedersen CA,听Leserman听J, Girdler SS. The Influence of Early Life Sexual Abuse on Oxytocin Concentrations and Premenstrual Symptomatology in Women with a听Menstrually听Related Mood Disorder.听Biological Psychology. 2015; 109: 1-9.听
• Brandon AR, Crowley SK, Gordon JL, Girdler SS. Non-Pharmacologic Treatments for Depression Related to Reproductive Events.听Current Psychiatry Reports. 2014; 16 (12): 526. 听
• Crowley SK, Wilkinson LL, Wigfall LT, Wooten NR, Reynolds AM,听Muraca听ST, Glover SH, Wooten NR, Sui听X ,听Beets MW,听Durstine听JL, Newman-Norlund听RD,听Youngstedt听SD. Physical Fitness and Depressive Symptoms during Army Basic Combat Training.听Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 2015; 47(1):151-8.听
• Crowley SK, Girdler SS.听Neurosteroid, GABAergic and Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) Axis Regulation: What is the Current State of Knowledge in Humans?听Psychopharmacology.听听2014; 231:3619-34. Invited Review.听
• Goodrich KM, Crowley SK, Lee DC, Sui XS, Hooker SP, Blair SN. Associations of cardiorespiratory fitness and parental history of diabetes with risk of type 2 diabetes.听Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice,听2012; 95(3):425-31.听

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3400 North Wesleyan Blvd.
Rocky Mount, NC 27804

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