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Rachel Donka

@racheldonka.bsky.social

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

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Max Loh, PhD @basedownloh.bsky.social · Aug 2

@ssibsociety.bsky.social banquet venue >>>>>>

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Rachel Donka @racheldonka.bsky.social · Jul 11

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! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 7

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️

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

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

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · Mar 6

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!

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.

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · Nov 25

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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