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SUMMARY:Neuroscience First Year Presentation: Jeffy Jackson
LOCATION:Natural Science and Engineering Research Lab (RL) 3.204\, 800 W. 
 Campbell Road\, Richardson\, Texas 75080-3021
DESCRIPTION:Please join us\n\nTuesday\, November 24\, 2026\n\n4:30pm – 5:0
 0pm CST\n\nNSERL 3.204\n\nfor a First Year Presentation by\n\nJeffy Jacks
 on\n\nUniversity of Texas at Dallas\n\nChemogenetic Activation of Ventral
  Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons\n\nRescues Adversity-Induced Maternal Mo
 tivation Deficits.\n\nMaternal behavior relies on mesolimbic dopamine sig
 naling to assign reinforcing value to infant cues and drive motivated car
 egiving behaviors\, but environmental adversity can disrupt these process
 es. Using a rodent model of postpartum scarcity-adversity\, I aimed to un
 derstand the functional relevance of VTA DA neuron activity and its relat
 ion to impairments in motivated maternal behavior during adaptive (contro
 l) and maladaptive (scarcity-adversity) conditions through bidirectional 
 chemogenetic manipulations. My findings suggest that chemogenetic activat
 ion of VTA dopamine neurons rescues adversity-induced impairments in pup 
 retrieval\, supporting a causal role for VTA dopamine signaling in motiva
 ted maternal behavior.\n\nIf you are unable to attend in person\, a Teams
  link is provided below.\n\nMicrosoft Teams meeting\n\nJoin: https://team
 s.microsoft.com/meet/239086695518264?p=GSP8mUPcnueT3SOjx4\n\nMeeting ID: 
 239 086 695 518 264\n\nPasscode: yX7T2jK2\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/
 4c0764ca-1a72-4bd3-87b2-b9f9bec1b08d
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