Design of the Focus on Restaurant Engagement to Strengthen Health (FRESH) study: leveraging systems science to work with independently-owned restaurants to increase access to and promotion of healthful foods

BackgroundHigh dietary quality can protect against diet-related chronic diseases.In the United States, racial and ethnic minorities and those with lower incomes consistently exhibit lower dietary quality.Independently-owned restaurants are a common prepared food source in minority low-income communities, but there are significant knowledge gaps on

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Spatial Working Memory in Male Rats: Pre-Experience and Task Dependent Roles of Dopamine D1- and D2-Like Receptors

The dopaminergic system is known to be involved in working memory processed by several brain regions like prefrontal cortex (PFC), hippocampus, striatum.In an earlier study we could show that Levodopa but not Modafinil enhanced working memory in a T-maze only during the early phase of training (day 3), whereas the later phase remained unaffected.Ra

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