Rachel Donka
@racheldonka.bsky.social
🧠Behavioral Neuroscience PhD candidate in the J Roitman laboratory at UIC
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Happy Halloween from the Roitman labs! And thanks to @racheldonka.bsky.social for printing us festive, seasonal earrings!!
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@mitchroitman.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Happy Halloween from the Roitman labs! And thanks to @racheldonka.bsky.social for printing us festive, seasonal earrings!!
@mitchroitman.bsky.social
@mitchroitman.bsky.social
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@ssibsociety.bsky.social banquet venue >>>>>>
August 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
@ssibsociety.bsky.social banquet venue >>>>>>
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...
July 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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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TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
March 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
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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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March 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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!
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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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November 25, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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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