Physician

Internal Medicine

Doctor Robert M. Wheeler, MD practices Internal Medicine. He went to medical school at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. He received 1 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Robert M. Wheeler, MD is also a published physician. He has 14 publication published. The most recent publication is: Aversive Stimuli Drive Drug Seeking in a State of Low Dopamine Tone. He accepts all Medicare patients.

Publications

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• Aversive Stimuli Drive Drug Seeking in a State of Low Dopamine Tone.
• Pain and somatic symptoms are sequelae of sexual assault: Results of a prospective longitudinal study.
• Stencil mask methodology for the parallelized production of microscale mechanical test samples.
• Catecholamines in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis Reciprocally Respond to Reward and Aversion.
• Cocaine cues drive opposing context-dependent shifts in reward processing and emotional state.
• Hedonic and nucleus accumbens neural responses to a natural reward are regulated by aversive conditioning.
• Basolateral amygdala modulates terminal dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens and conditioned responding.
• Real-time chemical responses in the nucleus accumbens differentiate rewarding and aversive stimuli.
• Behavioral and electrophysiological indices of negative affect predict cocaine self-administration.
• Behavioral responding and nucleus accumbens cell firing are unaltered following periods of abstinence from sucrose.
• The neuroscience of pleasure. Focus on "Ventral pallidum firing codes hedonic reward: when a bad taste turns good".
• Role of gustatory thalamus in anticipation and comparison of rewards over time in rats.
• Nucleus accumbens neurons are innately tuned for rewarding and aversive taste stimuli, encode their predictors, and are linked to motor output.

Schools

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• Virginia Commonwealth University School Of Medicine

• ChippenhamChesterfield Family Practice Residency

Doctors Specialties

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• Family Medicine
• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna HMO
• Choice Plus POS II
• Pathway X Tier Hosp HealthKeepers DirectAccess VA
• HealthKeepers HMO
• KeyCare PPO
• Blue Card PPO
• CHAMPVA
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• Commercial Insurance Company
• Southern Health PPO
• Coventry Health Care of Virginia HMO
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• GEHA
• Choice Care PPO
• Mail Handlers Benefit Plan (MHBP)
• Medicare MCR
• Medico
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• POMCO Group
• Tricare
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO
• United Healthcare
• Universal American

Awards

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• CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification

Education

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• Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
• Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

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