Publications by authors named "Eilish Carpenter"
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- Some doctors and medical staff need to start asking patients about their sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) to give better care, but not everyone is onboard yet.
- Researchers talked to 20 staff members at a healthcare center to find out how they feel about collecting this kind of information and what problems they see.
- They found that people are worried about how patients will react, and there are differences in thinking between clinical staff (who work directly with patients) and nonclinical staff (who have different roles), so more education is needed to help everyone understand why gathering this information is important.
Clinical and preclinical studies indicate that adaptations in corticostriatal neurotransmission significantly contribute to heroin relapse vulnerability. In animal models, heroin self-administration and extinction produce cellular adaptations in both neurons and astrocytes within the nucleus accumbens (NA) core that are required for cue-induced heroin seeking. Specifically, decreased glutamate clearance and reduced association of perisynaptic astrocytic processes with NAcore synapses allow glutamate release from prelimbic (PrL) cortical terminals to engage synaptic and structural plasticity in NAcore medium spiny neurons.
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