Timeline
Morgane Besson
Permanent Researcher
03 Feb 2025
06 Nov 2024
publication
Distinct Chrna5 mutations link excessive alcohol use to types I/II vulnerability profiles and IPN GABAergic neurons.
Read more17 Mar 2023
publication
Impact of the gut microbiome on nicotine’s motivational effects and glial cells in the ventral tegmental area in male mice.
Read more22 Jan 2022
event
Neuroscience Seminar Series “VGLUT3-p.T8I a rare variant that alters striatal cholinergic transmission; impact on addiction and eating disorders.”
Read more29 Mar 2021
event
Neuroscience Seminar Series : “Neuronal plasticity, neurotrophin signaling and the antidepressant effect”, Eero Castrén
Read more01 Feb 2021
publication
Alterations in nicotinic receptor alpha5 subunit gene differentially impact early and later stages of cocaine addiction: a translational study in transgenic rats and patients.
Read more09 Nov 2020
27 Nov 2019
publication
β2* nAChRs on VTA dopamine and GABA neurons separately mediate nicotine aversion and reward.
Read more01 Oct 2019
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Profound alteration in reward processing due to a human polymorphism in CHRNA5: a role in alcohol dependence and feeding behavior.
Read more22 Oct 2018
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A Human Polymorphism in CHRNA5 Is Linked to Relapse to Nicotine Seeking in Transgenic Rats.
Read more02 Mar 2018
project
Studying vulnerability to drug addiction: contribution of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α5 subunit.
Read more24 Jan 2018
27 Apr 2017
event
“Circuit mechanisms of associative fear learning in auditory cortex” – Pr Johannes J. Letzkus
Read more01 Oct 2016
publication
A role for β2* nicotinic receptors in a model of local amyloid pathology induced in dentate gyrus.
Read more21 Sep 2016
publication
Cognitive Dysfunction, Affective States, and Vulnerability to Nicotine Addiction: A Multifactorial Perspective
Read more01 Sep 2016
publication
Alterations in alpha5* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors result in midbrain- and hippocampus-dependent behavioural and neural impairments.
Read more01 Apr 2016
15 Sep 2015
publication
From impulses to maladaptive actions: the insula is a neurobiological gate for the development of compulsive behavior
Read more17 Jul 2015
11 May 2015
01 May 2013
publication
Cocaine modulation of frontostriatal expression of Zif268, D2, and 5-HT2c receptors in high and low impulsive rats
Read more01 Mar 2013
08 Sep 2011
publication
Alpha7-nicotinic receptors modulate nicotine-induced reinforcement and extracellular dopamine outflow in the mesolimbic system in mice
Read more01 Jan 2010
publication
Dissociable control of impulsivity in rats by dopamine d2/3 receptors in the core and shell subregions of the nucleus accumbens
Read more08 Jul 2008
publication
Chronic nicotine exposure has dissociable behavioural effects on control and beta2-/- mice
Read more30 Apr 2007
08 Dec 2006
publication
Spatial learning in Long-Evans Hooded rats and C57BL/6J mice: different strategies for different performance
Read more01 Jun 2006
publication
Genetic dissociation of two behaviors associated with nicotine addiction: beta-2 containing nicotinic receptors are involved in nicotine reinforcement but not in withdrawal syndrome
Read more31 Mar 2006
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Reinforcing effects of nicotine microinjections into the ventral tegmental area of mice: dependence on cholinergic nicotinic and dopaminergic D1 receptors
Read more01 Jan 2006
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Targeted in vivo expression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in mouse brain using lentiviral expression vectors.
Read more07 Jul 2005
publication
Nicotine reinforcement and cognition restored by targeted expression of nicotinic receptors.
Read more15 Feb 2005