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Rachel Donka

@racheldonka.bsky.social

🧠Behavioral Neuroscience PhD candidate in the J Roitman laboratory at UIC

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3-D printed rat skull earrings

3-D printed rat skull earrings

Happy Halloween from the Roitman labs! And thanks to @racheldonka.bsky.social for printing us festive, seasonal earrings!!

@mitchroitman.bsky.social

28.10.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@ssibsociety.bsky.social banquet venue >>>>>>

02.08.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

11.07.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Flyer for stand up for science--more information available at www.standupforscience2025.org

Flyer for stand up for science--more information available at www.standupforscience2025.org

TODAY IS THE DAY! πŸ§ͺβ˜€οΈβ¬‡οΈ

Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!

07.03.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1179    πŸ” 406    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 55
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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.

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!

06.03.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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!
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25.11.2024 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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