Undergraduate Researcher
- Study 1 (May 2019 - August 2019)
- Consulted literature to design an experiment utilizing D3 antagonist YQA14 to block the expression of PTSD-like behavior following single prolonged stress
- Appropriately handled rats prior to, during, and following single prolonged stress
- Prepared drugs for injection and appropriately dosed drugs in accordance with literature
- Utilized AnyMaze tracking software and Graphpad Prism to analyze data
- Maintained a lab notebook with all methods and findings and relayed results to PIStudy 2 (September 2019 – March 2020)