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National Ranking
195

Overview

Camilla Bellone is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and psychology. Within these areas, their work touches on multiple subfields, including social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, and genetics.

Their main research topics include neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, autism spectrum disorder research, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, neural dynamics and brain function, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Recent publications by Camilla Bellone include the following:

  • VTA dopamine neuron activity encodes social interaction and promotes reinforcement learning through social prediction error, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Temporal controls over inter-areal cortical projection neuron fate diversity, 2021, Nature
  • Superior Colliculus to VTA pathway controls orienting response and influences social interaction in mice, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Inhibition of Trpv4 rescues circuit and social deficits unmasked by acute inflammatory response in a Shank3 mouse model of Autism, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Deconstructing the contribution of sensory cues in social approach, 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bellone include Benoît Girard, Alessandro Contestabile, Stefano Musardo, Pedro Espinosa, and Giulia Casarotto.

The scientist's work has appeared across several publication venues with notable frequency. These include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Psychiatry, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), European Journal of Neuroscience, and Neuron.

Best Publications

  • NMDA receptor subunit diversity: impact on receptor properties, synaptic plasticity and disease

    Pierre Paoletti;Camilla Bellone;Qiang Zhou

  • Cocaine triggered AMPA receptor redistribution is reversed in vivo by mGluR-dependent long-term depression.

    Camilla Bellone;Christian Lüscher

  • Rapid Bidirectional Switching of Synaptic NMDA Receptors

    Camilla Bellone;Roger A. Nicoll

  • Cocaine inverts rules for synaptic plasticity of glutamate transmission in the ventral tegmental area

    Manuel Mameli;Camilla Bellone;Matthew T C Brown;Christian Lüscher;Christian Lüscher

  • Mechanisms of synaptic depression triggered by metabotropic glutamate receptors.

    C. Bellone;C. Lüscher;C. Lüscher;M. Mameli

  • In vivo reprogramming of circuit connectivity in postmitotic neocortical neurons

    Andrés De La Rossa;Camilla Bellone;Bruno James Golding;Ilaria Vitali

  • Neurons under T Cell Attack Coordinate Phagocyte-Mediated Synaptic Stripping.

    Giovanni Di Liberto;Stanislav Pantelyushin;Mario Kreutzfeldt;Nicolas Page

  • Effects of streptozotocin‐diabetes on the hippocampal NMDA receptor complex in rats

    F. Gardoni;A. Kamal;C. Bellone;G. J. Biessels

  • mGluRs induce a long-term depression in the ventral tegmental area that involves a switch of the subunit composition of AMPA receptors

    Camilla Bellone;Christian Lüscher

  • SHANK3 controls maturation of social reward circuits in the VTA

    Sebastiano Bariselli;Stamatina Tzanoulinou;Christelle Glangetas;Christelle Glangetas;Christelle Glangetas;Clément Prévost-Solié

  • Role of VTA dopamine neurons and neuroligin 3 in sociability traits related to nonfamiliar conspecific interaction.

    Sebastiano Bariselli;Hanna Hörnberg;Clément Prévost-Solié;Stefano Musardo

  • Amyloid precursor protein metabolism is regulated toward alpha-secretase pathway by Ginkgo biloba extracts.

    Francesca Colciaghi;Barbara Borroni;Martina Zimmermann;Camilla Bellone

  • Modality-specific thalamocortical inputs instruct the identity of postsynaptic L4 neurons

    Gabrielle Pouchelon;Frédéric Gambino;Camilla Bellone;Ludovic Telley

  • VTA dopamine neuron activity encodes social interaction and promotes reinforcement learning through social prediction error.

    Clément Solié;Benoit Girard;Beatrice Righetti;Malika Tapparel

  • Progenitor Hyperpolarization Regulates the Sequential Generation of Neuronal Subtypes in the Developing Neocortex

    Ilaria Vitali;Sabine Fievre;Ludovic Telley;Polina Oberst

  • Protein Kinase C Activation Modulates α-Calmodulin Kinase II Binding to NR2A Subunit of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Complex

    Fabrizio Gardoni;Camilla Bellone;Flaminio Cattabeni;Monica Di Luca

  • CaMKII dependent phosphorylation regulates SAP97/NR2A interaction

    Fabrizio Gardoni;Daniela Mauceri;Chiara Fiorentini;Camilla Bellone

  • Drug-Driven AMPA Receptor Redistribution Mimicked by Selective Dopamine Neuron Stimulation

    Matthew T. C. Brown;Camilla Bellone;Manuel Mameli;Gwenael Labouèbe

  • Expression of Cocaine-Evoked Synaptic Plasticity by GluN3A-Containing NMDA Receptors

    Tifei Yuan;Manuel Mameli;Eoin C. O'Connor;Partha Narayan Dey

  • Modulation of the glutamatergic transmission by Dopamine: a focus on Parkinson, Huntington and Addiction diseases.

    Fabrizio Gardoni;Camilla Bellone

  • In utero exposure to cocaine delays postnatal synaptic maturation of glutamatergic transmission in the VTA

    Camilla Bellone;Manuel Mameli;Christian Lüscher;Christian Lüscher

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Lüscher
Christian Lüscher University of Geneva
Denis Jabaudon
Denis Jabaudon University of Geneva
Fabrizio Gardoni
Fabrizio Gardoni University of Milan
Manuel Mameli
Manuel Mameli University of Lausanne
Monica Di Luca
Monica Di Luca University of Milan
Flaminio Cattabeni
Flaminio Cattabeni University of Milan
Alexandre Dayer
Alexandre Dayer University of Geneva
Ti-Fei Yuan
Ti-Fei Yuan Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Peter Scheiffele
Peter Scheiffele University of Basel
Alan Carleton
Alan Carleton University of Geneva

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