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  1. Article ; Online: An incentive circuit for memory dynamics in the mushroom body of

    Gkanias, Evripidis / McCurdy, Li Yan / Nitabach, Michael N / Webb, Barbara

    eLife

    2022  Volume 11

    Abstract: Insects adapt their response to stimuli, such as odours, according to their pairing with positive or negative reinforcements, such as sugar or shock. Recent electrophysiological and imaging findings ... ...

    Abstract Insects adapt their response to stimuli, such as odours, according to their pairing with positive or negative reinforcements, such as sugar or shock. Recent electrophysiological and imaging findings in
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Drosophila melanogaster/physiology ; Memory/physiology ; Motivation ; Mushroom Bodies/physiology ; Odorants
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-01
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 2687154-3
    ISSN 2050-084X ; 2050-084X
    ISSN (online) 2050-084X
    ISSN 2050-084X
    DOI 10.7554/eLife.75611
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  2. Article ; Online: A non-randomized pilot study protocol of a novel social support intervention for individuals in early recovery from hazardous alcohol use.

    McCurdy, Li Yan / Kong, Grace / Krishnan-Sarin, Suchitra / Kiluk, Brian D / Potenza, Marc N

    PloS one

    2023  Volume 18, Issue 10, Page(s) e0292293

    Abstract: Introduction: Connecting individuals to recovery support services such as recovery community centers and mutual help organizations can be crucial for sustaining recovery from addiction. However, there may be barriers to engagement with recovery support ... ...

    Abstract Introduction: Connecting individuals to recovery support services such as recovery community centers and mutual help organizations can be crucial for sustaining recovery from addiction. However, there may be barriers to engagement with recovery support services on individual (e.g., limited motivation) and structural (e.g., limited information on recovery resources) levels. This pilot study will determine the feasibility and acceptability of a novel online social support intervention (Let's Do Addiction Recovery Together!, abbreviated as LDART) that uses pre-recorded videos created by members from several recovery support services to help individuals in early recovery from hazardous alcohol use sustain motivation during recovery and introduce them to freely available recovery support services in the community.
    Methods and analysis: This will be a non-randomized mixed-method pilot study. We will recruit 30 adults who engaged in past-year hazardous alcohol use and have some desire to cut down or quit to use LDART every night for a month. A subset of these participants will be invited to participate in a semi-structured qualitative interview after completing the study. Primary outcomes will be feasibility parameters such as recruitment and retention rates, and acceptability measures such as frequency of intervention use. Secondary outcomes will include self-reported changes in alcohol use, engagement in recovery support services, and quality of life at one-month post-intervention relative to baseline.
    Discussion: Results of this pilot study will inform a randomized controlled trial to examine efficacy of this intervention, with the goal of creating an accessible and scalable intervention that has direct benefits on individuals who want to cut down or quit problematic alcohol use.
    Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT06022107.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Humans ; Pilot Projects ; Quality of Life ; Social Support ; Non-Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-05
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Clinical Trial Protocol ; Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0292293
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  3. Article ; Online: Intravenous versus oral acetaminophen for pain and quality of recovery after ambulatory spine surgery: a randomized controlled trial.

    Schwenk, Eric S / Ferd, Polina / Torjman, Marc C / Li, Chris J / Charlton, Alex R / Yan, Vivian Z / McCurdy, Michael A / Kepler, Christopher K / Schroeder, Gregory D / Fleischman, Andrew N / Issa, Tariq

    Regional anesthesia and pain medicine

    2024  

    Abstract: Introduction: As ambulatory spine surgery increases, efficient recovery and discharge become essential. Multimodal analgesia is superior to opioids alone. Acetaminophen is a central component of multimodal protocols and both intravenous and oral forms ... ...

    Abstract Introduction: As ambulatory spine surgery increases, efficient recovery and discharge become essential. Multimodal analgesia is superior to opioids alone. Acetaminophen is a central component of multimodal protocols and both intravenous and oral forms are used. While some advantages for intravenous acetaminophen have been touted, prospective studies with patient-centered outcomes are lacking in ambulatory spine surgery. A substantial cost difference exists. We hypothesized that intravenous acetaminophen would be associated with fewer opioids and better recovery.
    Methods: Patients undergoing ambulatory spine surgery were randomized to preoperative oral placebo and intraoperative intravenous acetaminophen or preoperative oral acetaminophen. All patients received general anesthesia and multimodal analgesia. The primary outcome was 24-hour opioid use in intravenous morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs), beginning with arrival to the postanesthesia care unit (PACU). Secondary outcomes included pain, Quality of Recovery (QoR)-15 scores, postoperative nausea and vomiting, recovery time, and correlations between pain catastrophizing, QoR-15, and pain.
    Results: A total of 82 patients were included in final analyses. Demographics were similar between groups. For the primary outcome, the median 24-hour MMEs did not differ between groups (12.6 (4.0, 27.1) vs 12.0 (4.0, 29.5) mg, p=0.893). Postoperative pain ratings, PACU MMEs, QoR-15 scores, and recovery time showed no differences. Spearman's correlation showed a moderate negative correlation between postoperative opioid use and QoR-15.
    Conclusion: Intravenous acetaminophen was not superior to the oral form in ambulatory spine surgery patients. This does not support routine use of the more expensive intravenous form to improve recovery and accelerate discharge.
    Trial registration number: NCT04574778.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-18
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1425299-5
    ISSN 1532-8651 ; 1098-7339 ; 0146-521X
    ISSN (online) 1532-8651
    ISSN 1098-7339 ; 0146-521X
    DOI 10.1136/rapm-2024-105386
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  4. Article ; Online: A neuronal ensemble encoding adaptive choice during sensory conflict in Drosophila.

    Sareen, Preeti F / McCurdy, Li Yan / Nitabach, Michael N

    Nature communications

    2021  Volume 12, Issue 1, Page(s) 4131

    Abstract: Feeding decisions are fundamental to survival, and decision making is often disrupted in disease. Here, we show that neural activity in a small population of neurons projecting to the fan-shaped body higher-order central brain region of Drosophila ... ...

    Abstract Feeding decisions are fundamental to survival, and decision making is often disrupted in disease. Here, we show that neural activity in a small population of neurons projecting to the fan-shaped body higher-order central brain region of Drosophila represents food choice during sensory conflict. We found that food deprived flies made tradeoffs between appetitive and aversive values of food. We identified an upstream neuropeptidergic and dopaminergic network that relays internal state and other decision-relevant information to a specific subset of fan-shaped body neurons. These neurons were strongly inhibited by the taste of the rejected food choice, suggesting that they encode behavioral food choice. Our findings reveal that fan-shaped body taste responses to food choices are determined not only by taste quality, but also by previous experience (including choice outcome) and hunger state, which are integrated in the fan-shaped body to encode the decision before relay to downstream motor circuits for behavioral implementation.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Brain/metabolism ; Decision Making ; Drosophila/metabolism ; Drosophila Proteins/metabolism ; Drosophila melanogaster/metabolism ; Feeding Behavior/physiology ; Food Preferences ; Hunger/physiology ; Neurons/metabolism ; Taste/physiology ; Taste Perception
    Chemical Substances Drosophila Proteins
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-07-05
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 2553671-0
    ISSN 2041-1723 ; 2041-1723
    ISSN (online) 2041-1723
    ISSN 2041-1723
    DOI 10.1038/s41467-021-24423-y
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  5. Article: Smartphone Apps for Problem Gambling: A Review of Content and Quality.

    McCurdy, Li Yan / Loya, Jennifer M / Hart-Derrick, Victoria R / Young, Griffin C / Kiluk, Brian D / Potenza, Marc N

    Current addiction reports

    2023  Volume 10, Issue 2, Page(s) 178–186

    Abstract: Purpose of review: Problem gambling can have profound consequences for affected individuals, yet only a small proportion of people with problem gambling seek treatment. Mobile phone applications (apps) may provide an effective and scalable therapeutic ... ...

    Abstract Purpose of review: Problem gambling can have profound consequences for affected individuals, yet only a small proportion of people with problem gambling seek treatment. Mobile phone applications (apps) may provide an effective and scalable therapeutic option. The purpose of this study was to evaluate publicly available mobile apps aimed at improving problematic gambling behavior.
    Recent findings: To date, there are no published studies that have evaluated the quality of publicly available smartphone apps for problem gambling in the US. There is thus a significant gap in knowledge of existing apps for addressing problem gambling.
    Summary: This study included a review of 14 problem-gambling-specific apps. Apps that incorporated cognitive-behavioral therapy concepts and in-app communities were associated with better aesthetics and information quality scores. Additionally, in-app communities were associated with better engagement scores. Our results highlight the importance of evidence-based and engaging features in apps designed to help people with problem gambling.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-02
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2196-2952
    ISSN 2196-2952
    DOI 10.1007/s40429-023-00479-2
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  6. Article ; Online: Neural correlates of altered emotional responsivity to infant stimuli in mothers who use substances.

    McCurdy, Li Yan / Yip, Sarah W / Worhunsky, Patrick D / Zhai, Zu Wei / Kim, Sohye / Strathearn, Lane / Potenza, Marc N / Mayes, Linda C / Rutherford, Helena J V

    Journal of psychiatric research

    2024  Volume 171, Page(s) 126–133

    Abstract: Mothers who use substances during pregnancy and postpartum may have altered maternal behavior towards their infants, which can have negative consequences on infant social-emotional development. Since maternal substance use has been associated with ... ...

    Abstract Mothers who use substances during pregnancy and postpartum may have altered maternal behavior towards their infants, which can have negative consequences on infant social-emotional development. Since maternal substance use has been associated with difficulties in recognizing and responding to infant emotional expressions, investigating mothers' subjective responses to emotional infant stimuli may provide insight into the neural and psychological processes underlying these differences in maternal behavior. In this study, 39 mothers who used substances during the perinatal period and 42 mothers who did not underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while viewing infant faces and hearing infant cries. Afterwards, they rated the emotional intensity they thought each infant felt ('think'-rating), and how intensely they felt in response to each infant stimulus ('feel'-rating). Mothers who used substances had lower 'feel'-ratings of infant stimuli compared to mothers who did not. Brain regions implicated in affective processing (e.g., insula, inferior frontal gyrus) were less active in response to infant stimuli, and activity in these brain regions statistically predicted maternal substance-use status. Interestingly, 'think'-ratings and activation in brain regions related to cognitive processing (e.g., medial prefrontal cortex) were comparable between the two groups of mothers. Taken together, these results suggest specific neural and psychological processes related to emotional responsivity to infant stimuli may reflect differences in maternal affective processing and may contribute to differences in maternal behavior in mothers who use substances compared to mothers who do not. The findings suggest potential neural targets for increasing maternal emotional responsivity and improving child outcomes.
    MeSH term(s) Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Brain/diagnostic imaging ; Brain/physiology ; Emotions/physiology ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Maternal Behavior/physiology ; Maternal Behavior/psychology ; Mother-Child Relations/psychology ; Mothers/psychology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-17
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 3148-3
    ISSN 1879-1379 ; 0022-3956
    ISSN (online) 1879-1379
    ISSN 0022-3956
    DOI 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.01.024
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  7. Article ; Online: A neuronal ensemble encoding adaptive choice during sensory conflict in Drosophila

    Preeti F. Sareen / Li Yan McCurdy / Michael N. Nitabach

    Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2021  Volume 13

    Abstract: The valence of information about food sources can be conflicting. Here, the authors show that activity in a small population of neurons projecting to the fan-shaped body of Drosophila represents food choice during sensory conflict. ...

    Abstract The valence of information about food sources can be conflicting. Here, the authors show that activity in a small population of neurons projecting to the fan-shaped body of Drosophila represents food choice during sensory conflict.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
    Document type Article ; Online
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  8. Article ; Online: An incentive circuit for memory dynamics in the mushroom body of Drosophila melanogaster

    Evripidis Gkanias / Li Yan McCurdy / Michael N Nitabach / Barbara Webb

    eLife, Vol

    2022  Volume 11

    Abstract: Insects adapt their response to stimuli, such as odours, according to their pairing with positive or negative reinforcements, such as sugar or shock. Recent electrophysiological and imaging findings in Drosophila melanogaster allow detailed examination ... ...

    Abstract Insects adapt their response to stimuli, such as odours, according to their pairing with positive or negative reinforcements, such as sugar or shock. Recent electrophysiological and imaging findings in Drosophila melanogaster allow detailed examination of the neural mechanisms supporting the acquisition, forgetting, and assimilation of memories. We propose that this data can be explained by the combination of a dopaminergic plasticity rule that supports a variety of synaptic strength change phenomena, and a circuit structure (derived from neuroanatomy) between dopaminergic and output neurons that creates different roles for specific neurons. Computational modelling shows that this circuit allows for rapid memory acquisition, transfer from short term to long term, and exploration/exploitation trade-off. The model can reproduce the observed changes in the activity of each of the identified neurons in conditioning paradigms and can be used for flexible behavioural control.
    Keywords computational model ; memory ; plasticity ; dopamine ; olfactory conditioning ; motivation ; Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 612
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
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  9. Article ; Online: A non-randomized pilot study protocol of a novel social support intervention for individuals in early recovery from hazardous alcohol use.

    Li Yan McCurdy / Grace Kong / Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin / Brian D Kiluk / Marc N Potenza

    PLoS ONE, Vol 18, Iss 10, p e

    2023  Volume 0292293

    Abstract: Introduction Connecting individuals to recovery support services such as recovery community centers and mutual help organizations can be crucial for sustaining recovery from addiction. However, there may be barriers to engagement with recovery support ... ...

    Abstract Introduction Connecting individuals to recovery support services such as recovery community centers and mutual help organizations can be crucial for sustaining recovery from addiction. However, there may be barriers to engagement with recovery support services on individual (e.g., limited motivation) and structural (e.g., limited information on recovery resources) levels. This pilot study will determine the feasibility and acceptability of a novel online social support intervention (Let's Do Addiction Recovery Together!, abbreviated as LDART) that uses pre-recorded videos created by members from several recovery support services to help individuals in early recovery from hazardous alcohol use sustain motivation during recovery and introduce them to freely available recovery support services in the community. Methods and analysis This will be a non-randomized mixed-method pilot study. We will recruit 30 adults who engaged in past-year hazardous alcohol use and have some desire to cut down or quit to use LDART every night for a month. A subset of these participants will be invited to participate in a semi-structured qualitative interview after completing the study. Primary outcomes will be feasibility parameters such as recruitment and retention rates, and acceptability measures such as frequency of intervention use. Secondary outcomes will include self-reported changes in alcohol use, engagement in recovery support services, and quality of life at one-month post-intervention relative to baseline. Discussion Results of this pilot study will inform a randomized controlled trial to examine efficacy of this intervention, with the goal of creating an accessible and scalable intervention that has direct benefits on individuals who want to cut down or quit problematic alcohol use. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT06022107.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 360
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
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  10. Article ; Online: Dopaminergic mechanism underlying reward-encoding of punishment omission during reversal learning in Drosophila.

    McCurdy, Li Yan / Sareen, Preeti / Davoudian, Pasha A / Nitabach, Michael N

    Nature communications

    2021  Volume 12, Issue 1, Page(s) 1115

    Abstract: Animals form and update learned associations between otherwise neutral sensory cues and aversive outcomes (i.e., punishment) to predict and avoid danger in changing environments. When a cue later occurs without punishment, this unexpected omission of ... ...

    Abstract Animals form and update learned associations between otherwise neutral sensory cues and aversive outcomes (i.e., punishment) to predict and avoid danger in changing environments. When a cue later occurs without punishment, this unexpected omission of aversive outcome is encoded as reward via activation of reward-encoding dopaminergic neurons. How such activation occurs remains unknown. Using real-time in vivo functional imaging, optogenetics, behavioral analysis and synaptic reconstruction from electron microscopy data, we identify the neural circuit mechanism through which Drosophila reward-encoding dopaminergic neurons are activated when an olfactory cue is unexpectedly no longer paired with electric shock punishment. Reduced activation of punishment-encoding dopaminergic neurons relieves depression of olfactory synaptic inputs to cholinergic neurons. Synaptic excitation by these cholinergic neurons of reward-encoding dopaminergic neurons increases their odor response, thus decreasing aversiveness of the odor. These studies reveal how an excitatory cholinergic relay from punishment- to reward-encoding dopaminergic neurons encodes the absence of punishment as reward, revealing a general circuit motif for updating aversive memories that could be present in mammals.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Avoidance Learning/physiology ; Conditioning, Classical ; Dopamine/metabolism ; Dopaminergic Neurons/physiology ; Drosophila melanogaster/physiology ; Memory/physiology ; Punishment ; Reversal Learning ; Reward ; Smell/physiology ; Synapses/physiology
    Chemical Substances Dopamine (VTD58H1Z2X)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-02-18
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 2553671-0
    ISSN 2041-1723 ; 2041-1723
    ISSN (online) 2041-1723
    ISSN 2041-1723
    DOI 10.1038/s41467-021-21388-w
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