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Courtney Wright

@courtney-wright.bsky.social

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Ph. D. Candidate at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine 🐓🤙🏼. Interested in the importance of sleep 💤😴 for maternal health🫄and neurodevelopment 🧠

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Fragmented sleep during pregnancy induces inflammation and tryptophan-kynurenine pathway metabolism: Importance of elevated fetal brain kynurenic acid www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Dr. Ana Pocivavsek @dranap.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📢🌟New paper in ACS Chemical Neuroscience! 📢🌟 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Congrats to @courtney-wright.bsky.social (first-author)! KYNA (linked to 🧠😴) varies with time of day, and KAT II inhibition is more effective in the active (dark) phase. Timing matters for neurochemical therapies!

Biochemical Regulation of Brain Kynurenic Acid Synthesis and Inhibition in Rats Is Sensitive to the Time of Day

Neurochemical imbalances, including elevations of the tryptophan metabolite kynurenic acid (KYNA), an endogenous antagonist of glutamatergic and cholinergic receptors, are linked to cognitive and slee...

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Dr. Ana Pocivavsek @dranap.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🌟 New paper alert 🌟 Collaboration with computer science 💻colleagues using #DeepLearningModel to classify #sleep stages #NREMsleep #REMsleep #wake in single channel EEG recordings from rats 🐀 Published in @dpn-journal.bsky.social @acnporg.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A deep learning software tool for automated sleep staging in rats via single channel EEG - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Our study presents a new deep learning model for automatically analyzing sleep patterns in rats using EEG data. This model was trained on one dataset and tested on two others, showing it can adapt to ...