Re-sharing over here the final chapter of my PhD now online as part of a special issue of Addiction Neuroscience on stress and addiction! We explore the link between adversity, addiction, and the role of delta opioid receptors in mediating that link:

Opioid drug seeking after early-life adversity: a role for delta opioid receptors

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is associated with a history of early-life adversity (ELA), an association that is particularly strong in women. In a rodent…

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Re-sharing over here the final chapter of my PhD now online as part of a special issue of Addiction Neuroscience on stress and addiction! We explore the link between adversity, addiction, and the role of delta opioid receptors in mediating that link:

Opioid drug seeking after early-life adversity: a role for delta opioid receptors

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is associated with a history of early-life adversity (ELA), an association that is particularly strong in women. In a rodent…

sciencedirect.com

Our study on ketamine's effects on neural self-other-distinction is finally out! 🥳 This is the first really big project from my lab, so I am extra happy about this one 🤩. #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #philsci

Reinoud Kaldewaij@rkaldewaij.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited that our study on ketamine & self- and other-touch has now been published! doi.org/10.1038/s413... Touch plays a major role in our sense of self and ketamine can disturb our sense of self. So, what happens with the processing of self- and other-generated touch when we receive ketamine? 🧵

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.

Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

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The five stages of academic writing: 1. Procrastination 2. Panic 3. Caffeine overdose 4. Submitting a barely coherent mess 5. Swearing to do it differently next time #academicsky

Some cool work showing negative valence of MOR-expressing neurons in the CeA during fentanyl withdrawal. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Distinct µ-opioid ensembles trigger positive and negative fentanyl reinforcement - Nature

Experiments using fentanyl treatment of mice show that µ-opioid receptors mediate positive reinforcement in the ventral tegmental area and negative reinforcement in central amygdala, thereby identifyi...

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Nice article pushing back on pop culture versions of dopamine Featuring an all star dopamine scientist cast ⭐ - happy to see all these folks contributing! www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Dopamine, explained

Dopamine detoxing, hacking, and fasting: Is any of it real?

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Very happy to announce our paper! "Sex mechanisms as nonbinary influences on cognitive diversity" A pleasure to contribute to this special issue of Hormones and Behavior about how to be less binary and more inclusive in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After 8 long years, finally get to call myself a double doc! So grateful to my mentors, family, and my MSTP cohort, who are some of the most amazing and inspiring physician-scientists I know! 🧪🩺🧠

Very honored to have received the Meyskens Family research award and the department of Psychiatry outstanding graduating student award! Such an honor to be recognized among so many of my accomplished peers, and extra proud to have my family with me tonight to help celebrate! #medsky

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What I think I wrote vs what I realize I wrote when I’m editing

🧠 hello #neuroskyence! happy to share my early career commentary in neuropsychopharmacology, highlighting the importance of understanding sex hormones for understanding the brain: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers.

Mary Robinette Kowal@maryrobinettekowal.com · 3y ago

I don't like "Your first draft will be shitty" as advice, because it's a really negative framing. I prefer, "You have the freedom to be messy creating your first draft." Anyone crafter knows what their room looks like mid-creation. Writers should be as free to be as exhuberent and messy.

Excited to share a new paper w Dani Bassett on "Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful" in Nature Reviews Neuroscience We explore different meanings of mechanism in the field, the challenges this presents & how to move forward. 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

‘Mechanism’ is a frequently used causal concept in neuroscience but can have different meanings that are often not specified. In this Review, Ross and Bassett explore these different meanings and ...

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Had my final residency interview today and am just so excited to be one small step closer to becoming a psychiatrist physician-scientist! Now back to the wards... #medsky #womeninstem #neuroskyence #addictionsci

New year, new preprint! Cued invigoration of reward seeking promotes sustained population coding in the BLA, which is disrupted by OFC inactivation. Consistent with the notion that BLA represents motivational states.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3y ago

Basolateral amygdala population coding of a cued reward seeking state depends on orbitofrontal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.31.573789v1

Our latest pub delves into the complex link between obstetric procedures OUD in women, highlighting how some procedures (e.g., ectopic pregnancy, cesarean) have a higher risk for OUD than others (e.g., vaginal delivery). bit.ly/OUDandObstet...

#Benzodiazepines: It is complicated. #MedSky 🧪 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Proud of myself for getting two manuscripts submitted just under the 2023 wire! Stay tuned for some cool 🧪🩺🧠 stuff coming out in 2024! #medsky #neuroskyence #addictionsci

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) are invaluable opportunities for undergraduates to gain research experience. Join Black In Neuro on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024 at 1 PM ET for an information session with universities on the SURF application process. Register now! t.co/MuYLHgnG85 🟦🧠 🧪

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals

One last paper for 2023, officially out in Hormones and Behavior! We tested the hypothesis that thyroid hormones are a missing molecular link between experience of early life stress and downstream transcriptional changes in VTA doi.org/10.1016/j.yh...

Recent research explores how community pharmacy practices might have influenced the opioid epidemic. Supports need to address store-level procedures, management pressure, and educational sponsorships in the industry. #PharmacyCare #OpioidCrisis tinyurl.com/ye7mvusn

I had a lot of fun working with @katiegbry.bsky.social to look at the relationship between performance in a progressive ratio and contingency degradation task. TLDR: She digs into task vs behavioral construct overlaps to better understand this correlation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“One may be able to recognize good science as it happens, but significant science can only be viewed in the rearview mirror. To pretend otherwise distorts science”

The Smithsonian holds nearly 31,000 human remains in storage but has never publicly released a full inventory. We spent months obtaining the documents and turning handwritten and typed memos into a searchable database: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...