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Overview

David Belin is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with a substantial number of publications contributing to these fields.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these, they have specialized in the following subfields:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology

Key topics covered by their work feature:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

David Belin has been published frequently in certain scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Brain Communications
  • Brain and Behavior

Recent notable publications include:

  • Myelin: A gatekeeper of activity-dependent circuit plasticity? (2021), published in Science
  • From compulsivity to compulsion: the neural basis of compulsive disorders (2024), published in Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
  • The Basolateral Amygdala to Nucleus Accumbens Core Circuit Mediates the Conditioned Reinforcing Effects of Cocaine-Paired Cues on Cocaine Seeking (2020), published in Biological Psychiatry
  • Environment-dependent behavioral traits and experiential factors shape addiction vulnerability (2020), published in European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Baclofen decreases compulsive alcohol drinking in rats characterized by reduced levels of GAT-3 in the central amygdala (2021), published in Addiction Biology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Maxime Fouyssac
  • Mickaël Puaud
  • Barry J. Everitt
  • Aude Belin-Rauscent
  • Lucía Martí-Prats

Best Publications

  • Evidence for addiction-like behavior in the rat.

    Véronique Deroche-Gamonet;David Belin;Pier Vincenzo Piazza

  • High Impulsivity Predicts the Switch to Compulsive Cocaine-Taking

    David Belin;Adam C. Mar;Jeffrey W. Dalley;Trevor W. Robbins

  • Neural mechanisms underlying the vulnerability to develop compulsive drug-seeking habits and addiction

    Barry J Everitt;David Belin;Daina Economidou;Yann Pelloux

  • Cocaine seeking habits depend upon dopamine-dependent serial connectivity linking the ventral with the dorsal striatum.

    David Belin;Barry J. Everitt

  • Opiate versus psychostimulant addiction: the differences do matter

    Aldo Badiani;David Belin;David Epstein;Donna Calu

  • Parallel and interactive learning processes within the basal ganglia: relevance for the understanding of addiction.

    David Belin;Sietse Jonkman;Anthony Dickinson;Trevor W. Robbins

  • Addiction: failure of control over maladaptive incentive habits.

    David Belin;Aude Belin-Rauscent;Aude Belin-Rauscent;Jennifer E Murray;Jennifer E Murray;Barry J Everitt;Barry J Everitt

  • High-Novelty-Preference Rats are Predisposed to Compulsive Cocaine Self-administration

    David Belin;Nadège Berson;Eric Balado;Pier Vincenzo Piazza

  • Enriched environment confers resistance to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine and cocaine: involvement of dopamine transporter and trophic factors.

    Erwan Bezard;Sandra Dovero;David Belin;Sophie Duconger

  • A transdiagnostic dimensional approach towards a neuropsychological assessment for addiction: an international Delphi consensus study

    Murat Yücel;Erin Oldenhof;Serge H. Ahmed;David Belin

  • Pattern of Intake and Drug Craving Predict the Development of Cocaine Addiction-like Behavior in Rats

    David Belin;Eric Balado;Pier Vincenzo Piazza;Véronique Deroche-Gamonet

  • Dissociable Control of Impulsivity in Rats by Dopamine D2/3 Receptors in the Core and Shell Subregions of the Nucleus Accumbens

    Morgane Besson;David Belin;Ruth McNamara;David Eh Theobald

  • Double Dissociation of the Dorsomedial and Dorsolateral Striatal Control Over the Acquisition and Performance of Cocaine Seeking

    Jennifer E Murray;Jennifer E Murray;David Belin;David Belin;Barry J Everitt;Barry J Everitt

  • In search of predictive endophenotypes in addiction: insights from preclinical research

    David Belin;Aude Belin‐Rauscent;Barry J. Everitt;Jeffrey W. Dalley

  • How preclinical models evolved to resemble the diagnostic criteria of drug addiction

    Aude Belin-Rauscent;Maxime Fouyssac;Antonello Bonci;David Belin

  • Responses to Novelty and Vulnerability to Cocaine Addiction: Contribution of a Multi-Symptomatic Animal Model

    David Belin;Véronique Deroche-Gamonet

  • From impulses to maladaptive actions: the insula is a neurobiological gate for the development of compulsive behavior.

    A Belin-Rauscent;M-L Daniel;Mickael Puaud;Bianca Jupp

  • High impulsivity predicting vulnerability to cocaine addiction in rats: some relationship with novelty preference but not novelty reactivity, anxiety or stress

    Anna C. Molander;Adam Mar;Agnes Norbury;Sarah Steventon

  • Trait-like impulsivity does not predict escalation of heroin self-administration in the rat

    Ruth McNamara;Jeffrey W. Dalley;Trevor W. Robbins;Barry J. Everitt

  • Evidence for a Long-Lasting Compulsive Alcohol Seeking Phenotype in Rats.

    Chiara Giuliano;Yolanda Peña-Oliver;Charles R Goodlett;Rudolf N Cardinal

Frequent Co-Authors

Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Rudolf N. Cardinal
Rudolf N. Cardinal University of Cambridge
Antoine Pelissolo
Antoine Pelissolo Université Paris Cité
Matthew J. Gullo
Matthew J. Gullo Griffith University
David H. Epstein
David H. Epstein National Institute on Drug Abuse
Samuel R. Chamberlain
Samuel R. Chamberlain University of Southampton
Theodora Duka
Theodora Duka University of Sussex
Pinhas N. Dannon
Pinhas N. Dannon Tel Aviv University
Valentina Lorenzetti
Valentina Lorenzetti Australian Catholic University
David C. Hodgins
David C. Hodgins University of Calgary

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