Rachel Donka
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🧠Behavioral Neuroscience PhD candidate in the J Roitman laboratory at UIC
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Rachel Donka
Max Loh, PhD
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@ssibsociety.bsky.social
banquet venue >>>>>>
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Very excited to share our new paper on the effects of adolescent opioid exposure on reward sensitivity during initial morphine administration and withdrawal, as well as during and after re-exposure in adulthood! Now out in Physiology & Behavior:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Stand Up for Science!
7 months ago
TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️ Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
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Rachel Donka
Mitch Roitman
7 months ago
Our VoR (
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
) is out! See how phasic DA to sucrose flips and changes during acq., maintenance & ext of a conditioned taste aversion. Makes for great reading on your way to your local
@standupforscience.bsky.social
tomorrow!
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Dopamine activity encodes the changing valence of the same stimulus in conditioned taste aversion paradigms
Phasic dopamine cell body activity and release in the nucleus accumbens differentially respond to the taste of sucrose in correlation with its hedonic valuation.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103260
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reposted by
Rachel Donka
Mitch Roitman
10 months ago
So much fun working with
@basedownloh.bsky.social
, Samantha Hurh,
@racheldonka.bsky.social
, Paula Bazzino,
@atkeinath.bsky.social
and
@jamiedroitman.bsky.social
We also had a really positive experience with
#eLife
and thank
@flagel-lab.bsky.social
and Michael Taffe for serving as editors! 4/end
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