Deby Elizarrarás
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Deby Elizarrarás
@debbieeh.bsky.social
BSc. in Neuroscience 👩🏻‍🔬
MS in Clinical Psychology 🧠
Finally published!! So grateful for all the learning my college years brought me. As for the people who made this possible: thank you for always believing in me. Hopefully, just the beginning of a beautiful and exciting journey. Btw so in love with microglia!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Effects of morphine self-administration on brain structure and microglial phenotypic diversity in the absence of neuronal loss in male Wistar rats - Psychopharmacology
Rationale Opioid addiction, including morphine use, is a major public health crisis in the U.S. It has been associated with brain volume changes in reward-related regions, neuronal loss, and neuroinfl...
link.springer.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Reposted by Deby Elizarrarás
We also found higher microglia count and region-specific phenotypes. More info in the preprint.
February 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Reposted by Deby Elizarrarás
New preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This was led by former Bachelor student Débora Elizarrarás and postdoc César Carranza. Here we wanted to study structural brain changes in opiod self-administration. Specifically if there was a link between MRI volume and neuroinflamation.
Morphine self-administration induces region-specific brain volume changes and microglial phenotypic alterations without affecting neuronal density in male Wistar rats
Addiction to opioids, including morphine, is a major public health crisis in the U.S. It has been associated with brain volume changes in reward-related regions, neuronal death, and neuroinflammation....
www.biorxiv.org
February 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM