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The goal of this dissertation was to understand if sex-specific responses to NAcC chemogenetic manipulations indicate differences in reward, or NAcC input and brain regio [...]
2025-06-13 | Dissertation |
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This dissertation examines how TAAR1 functionality influences dorsal raphe serotonin neuron activity, glutamatergic inputs, and methamphetamine (MA) intake in mice with d [...]
2025-02-24 | Dissertation |
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The brain regulates nociceptive processing through descending projections from the brainstem to the spinal and trigeminal dorsal horns. This is accomplished through endog [...]
2024-12-02 | Dissertation |
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The nucleus accumbens plays a key role in guiding motivated behavior by integrating glutamate inputs, the major driver of neuronal activation, and dopamine (DA) inputs, a [...]
2024-06-20 | Thesis |
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Psychosis is a hallmark of schizophrenia. It typically emerges in late adolescence and is associated with striatal dopamine abnormalities. Most genes implicated in the ri [...]
2024-06-21 | Dissertation |
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The etiology of adolescent internalizing psychopathology (e.g., anxiety and depression) is not yet fully understood, and for that reason it has been difficult to identify [...]
2023-12-15 | Dissertation |
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Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder thought to arise from an interplay of environmental and genetic risk factors. The presentation of disease sympt [...]
2023-12-05 | Dissertation |
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Just over 20% of American adults suffer from chronic pain, making chronic pain one of the most significant health concerns affecting individuals in the United States. For [...]
2023-09-21 | Dissertation |