Please join us Wed. for our Distinguished Speaker, Paul Mermelstein’s, seminar on interactions between estrogens & glutamate! Paul’s work is elegant & fascinating. I’m very much looking forward to this seminar! TUNS Temple Nu Rho Psi

Workshop attendee tests positive for COVID-19. Read more here: bit.ly/2vvAXP5

(1/1) We are committed to returning as an on-campus living and learning environment for Fall 2020. As always, the health and safety of our Rowan community is our top priority.

Congratulations to my grad student Claire Corbett for winning an IBNS IBNS travel award for the upcoming 2021 meeting! #ProudPI Rowan Behavioral Neuroscience @RowanSOM Rowan University

This Thursday 5pm Geneva time (noon Eastern) we will inaugurate the world wide seminars on neurobiology of addiction with a talk by patricia janak Sign up at: world-wide.org/Neuro/Neurobio…

Our tribute to Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek (w Ellen Unterwald and Gavin Bart). In Memoriam academic.oup.com/ijnp/advance-a…

Want to learn more about sex differences in drug addiction. Do not miss next seminar on the WWN Neurobiology of Addiction series hold by Jill Becker. 21 Oct 21: 6pm CET/noon EST

Prospective grad students attending the Society for Neuroscience Conference - check out Rowan University SOM’s virtual booth at the Grad School Fair this week! We have an informational video and brochures about our PhD and Master’s Programs! Rowan GSBS @RowanSOM Rowan Behavioral Neuroscience

Paper of the week: collaborative study with Bruce Hope lab (1st au. Leslie Anne Ramsey) extending our rat operant social self-administration & choice model (developed by Marco Venniro) to female CD1 mice. The model did not work well with C57BL/6J mice sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy #PsychopharmPhriday! At #3 with 1506 cites, Kent Berridge updates the case in 2007 for #dopamine mediating incentive salience. Responded to by Barry Everitt & Robbins, this special issue has many great papers by DA field leaders (past & present) link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Congratulations to Dr. Claire Corbett, first graduate student to defend from my lab at Rowan University! Great job Claire! Rowan Behavioral Neuroscience Rowan GSBS Claire Corbett

I agree! Really interesting and important article.

Great job Keisha Smith getting this important work out showing greater drug use in women compared to men with substance use disorders and brain responses that predict that future return to use supported by NIDAnews and NIAAA News Verica Milivojevic sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Ethan had a great day visiting my work this past Thursday for bring your child to work day. He learned all about being a scientist and wrote some important terms here on my white board 😊 He also kept a tally of how many coworkers he met ☺️ Mrs. Stabile

It's been 8 years of #SABV, but >30y since NIH mandated incorporation of women in NIH-funded clinical trials. Yet how many papers examine whether or not sex/gender makes a difference? ~5% (~20% use sex/gender as a covariate (removing any effect not learning from any effect).

Great opportunity to check out/apply to!

Excited to share this article that Dan Manvich Dan Manvich and I just published in The Conversation The Conversation U.S. that focuses on investigating sex differences in opioid misuse and relapse susceptibility. theconversation.com/new-research-s…

So fascinating! nature.com/articles/s4158…

An #NIH-supported study found that children who had low sugar exposure in utero and during the first two years of life later had a reduced risk of developing #diabetes or #HighBloodPressure. bit.ly/3CzdkHD