Mrs. Shirley J Starkey SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
BARRON DR INSTITUTE WV, 25112About
Dr. Shirley Starkey is a speech language pathologist practicing in INSTITUTE, WV. Dr. Starkey specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Starkey evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Starkey helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The anticonvulsant BW534U87 depresses epileptiform activity in rat hippocampal slices by an adenosine-dependent mechanism and through inhibition of voltage-gated Na+ channels.
- A rapid and transient synthesis of nitric oxide (NO) by a constitutively expressed type II NO synthase in the guinea-pig suprachiasmatic nucleus.
- GABA autoreceptors regulate the induction of LTP.
- 5-HT1D as well as 5-HT1A autoreceptors modulate 5-HT release in the guinea-pig dorsal raphé nucleus.
- Modulation of the rat suprachiasmatic circadian clock by melatonin in vitro.
- Melatonin and 5-hydroxytryptamine phase-advance the rat circadian clock by activation of nitric oxide synthesis.
- GR196429: a nonindolic agonist at high-affinity melatonin receptors.
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