Jibran Khokhar
Neuropsychopharmacology; co-occurring addiction/mental illness. @queensu/@UofT/@Dartmouth product. Assistant Professor @UofG @OntVetCollege. PI: @JKhokharLab
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Virtual Care for Mental Health and Substance Use During COVID-19 [infographic] | Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction
One-page poster that provides information about accessing virtual care for substance use and mental health during COVID-19. It highlights the importance of seeking mental health and substance use care early, and provides a list of virtual care...
Graph Theory & Machine Learning in Neuroscience
How graph theory can be used to extract brain data to be used in machine learning models
Serotonin-2B receptor antagonism increases the activity of dopamine and glutamate neurons in the presence of selective serotonin reuptake inhibition
Serotonin-2B receptor antagonism increases the activity of dopamine and glutamate neurons in the presence of selective serotonin reuptake inhibition
NINDS Strategies for Enhancing the Diversity of Neuroscience Researchers
Neuroscience is one of the fastest growing fields and highlights the excitement about
research, but it also demonstrates the impact that our large scientific community
could make in prioritizing equity and inclusion throughout science. Jones-London...
Allosteric modulation of GABAA receptors in rat basolateral amygdala blocks stress-enhanced reacquisition of nicotine self-administration
Stress is a major determinant of relapse to smoked tobacco. In a rat model, repeated stress during abstinence from nicotine self-administration (SA) results in enhanced reacquisition of nicotine SA, which is dependent on the basolateral amygdala...
How do substance use disorders compare to other psychiatric conditions on structural brain abnormalities? A cross‐disorder meta‐analytic comparison using the ENIGMA consortium findings
We compared the impact of alcohol and cannabis use disorders to other major psychiatric conditions using standardised objectively brain derived metrics. Through a meta‐analytic cross‐disorder framewo...
Jibran Khokhar
Latest from Patricia Conrod and colleagues: How do substance use disorders compare to other psychiatric conditions on structural brain abnormalities? A cross‐disorder meta‐analytic comparison using the ENIGMA consortium findings
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Myosin Va Brain-Specific Mutation Alters Mouse Behavior and Disrupts Hippocampal Synapses
Myosin Va (MyoVa) is a plus-end filamentous-actin motor protein that is highly and broadly expressed in the vertebrate body, including in the nervous system. In excitatory neurons MyoVa transports cargo toward the tip of the dendritic spine, where...
Highly Recurrent Copy Number Variations in GABRB2 Associated With Schizophrenia and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
ObjectiveAlthough single-nucleotide polymorphisms in GABRB2, the gene encoding for GABAA receptors β2 subunit, have been associated with schizophrenia (SCZ), it is unknown whether there is any association of copy number variations (CNVs) in this...
Rage Against the Machine: Advancing the study of aggression ethology via machine learning.
Aggression, comorbid with neuropsychiatric disorders, exhibits with diverse clinical presentations and places a significant burden on patients, caregivers, and society. This diversity is observed because aggression is a complex behavior that can be...
Postdoctoral Scholar - Family and Community Medicine job with UK Healthcare | 27003
One project will involve performing whole cell patch clamp electrophysiology as well standard rodent models of drug addiction. The other project wi...
Research Assistant III
The primary purpose of this position is to implement activities for a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded study investigating a prevention strategy for opioid use disorder in primary care settings. This position is based at two primary...
Marijuana Concentrates DrugFacts | National Institute on Drug Abuse
A summary about marijuana concentrates, how they are made, how they are used, and the health effects.
Webinars - Schizophrenia International Research Society
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychosis Thursday, 30 July 8:00 – 9:00 AM EDT Join the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) for a complimentary live webinar for SIRS members on Thursday, 30 July at 8:00 AM Eastern time, USA. The...
MNE Scan: Software for real-time processing of electrophysiological data - OpenBehavior
July 9, 2020 In a 2018 Journal of Neuroscience Methods article, Lorenz Esch and colleagues present MNE Scan, a software that provides real-time acquisition and processing of electrophysiological data. MNE Scan is a state-of-the-art real-time...
Commentary: Totality of the Evidence Suggests Prenatal Cannabis Exposure Does Not Lead to Cognitive Impairments: A Systematic and Critical Review.(1)
Recent legalization of cannabis in 40 American states and all Canadian provinces and territories has created an urgent need for evidence surrounding the implications of in-utero cannabis exposure for infant and child health outcomes, including...