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Paula Bazzino

Graduate Student

Psychology

About

Advisor: Dr. Mitch Roitman

Selected Publications

Gordon-Fennell, A., M. Barbakh, J., Utley, M. T., Singh, S., Bazzino, P., Gowrishankar, R., Roitman, Mitchell; D. Stuber, G. (2023). An open-source platform for head-fixed operant and consummatory behavior. elife Neuroscience.

Hsu, T. M., Bazzino, P., Hurh, S. J., Konanur, V. R., Roitman, J. D., & Roitman, M. F. (2020). Thirst recruits phasic dopamine signaling through subfornical organ neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(48), 30744–30754. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009233117

Notable Honors

2024, Third place in poster presentation of Neuroscience Research Day, Graduate Program of Neuroscience

2023, Second place for oral presentation in the Graduate Student Symposium, Society for Neuroscience Chicago Chapter

Selected Presentations

Bazzino, P.; Loh, M.; Roitman, M.F. Nociceptin receptor antagonism modulates dopamine
responses to water in thirsty rats. Society for Neuroscience. Washington D.C.
November 2023

Bazzino, P.; Loh, M.; Konanur, V.R.; Roitman, M.F. Phasic dopamine responses to nutritive
stimuli decrease over an intra-oral meal and the slope of decay is modulated by
glucagon-like 1 receptors (GLP-1Rs). Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior.
Portland, OR. July 2023.