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Overview

Emmanuel Valjent is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional subfields include Neurology and Physiology.

The main topics covered in Valjent's work involve Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling. Other areas of interest include Neurological disorders and treatments, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Neural dynamics and brain function, and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Valjent has contributed to a range of research publications, including:

  • The Tail of the Striatum: From Anatomy to Connectivity and Function, 2020, Trends in Neurosciences

Frequent collaborators include Laia Castell, Laura Cutando, Emma Puighermanal, Leila Makrini-Maleville, and Federica Bertaso. Their joint work reflects an interdisciplinary approach within neuroscience and molecular biology.

Valjent's research has been published often within venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Neurobiology of Disease, Nature Metabolism, and Biological Psychiatry.

  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Physiology

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

  • Laia Castell
  • Laura Cutando
  • Emma Puighermanal
  • Leila Makrini-Maleville
  • Federica Bertaso

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Neurobiology of Disease
  • Nature Metabolism
  • Biological Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Regulation of a protein phosphatase cascade allows convergent dopamine and glutamate signals to activate ERK in the striatum

    Emmanuel Valjent;Vincent Pascoli;Per Svenningsson;Surojit Paul

  • Opposing patterns of signaling activation in dopamine D1 and D2 receptor-expressing striatal neurons in response to cocaine and haloperidol.

    Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Clémentine Bosch;Matthieu Maroteaux;Miriam Matamales

  • Involvement of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase cascade for cocaine-rewarding properties.

    Emmanuel Valjent;Emmanuel Valjent;Jean-Christophe Corvol;Christiane Pagès;Marie-Jo Besson

  • Addictive and non-addictive drugs induce distinct and specific patterns of ERK activation in mouse brain.

    Emmanuel Valjent;Christiane Pagès;Denis Hervé;Jean-Antoine Girault

  • Critical Involvement of cAMP/DARPP-32 and Extracellular Signal-Regulated Protein Kinase Signaling in l-DOPA-Induced Dyskinesia

    Emanuela Santini;Emmanuel Valjent;Alessandro Usiello;Manolo Carta

  • ERK2: a logical AND gate critical for drug-induced plasticity?

    Jean-Antoine Girault;Emmanuel Valjent;Emmanuel Valjent;Jocelyne Caboche;Jocelyne Caboche;Denis Hervé;Denis Hervé

  • Regulation of Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase by Cannabinoids in Hippocampus

    Pascal Derkinderen;Emmanuel Valjent;Emmanuel Valjent;Madeleine Toutant;Jean-Christophe Corvol

  • Contrasting forms of cocaine-evoked plasticity control components of relapse

    Vincent Jean Pascoli;Jean Terrier;Julie Espallergues;Emmanuel Valjent

  • Distinct subclasses of medium spiny neurons differentially regulate striatal motor behaviors

    Helen S. Bateup;Emanuela Santini;Weixing Shen;Shari G Birnbaum

  • Behavioural and biochemical evidence for interactions between Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol and nicotine

    Emmanuel Valjent;Emmanuel Valjent;Jennifer M Mitchell;Marie-Jo Besson;Jocelyne Caboche

  • Inhibition of ERK pathway or protein synthesis during reexposure to drugs of abuse erases previously learned place preference

    Emmanuel Valjent;Anne-Gaëlle Corbillé;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Denis Hervé

  • Parsing Molecular and Behavioral Effects of Cocaine in Mitogen- and Stress-Activated Protein Kinase-1-Deficient Mice

    Karen Brami-Cherrier;Emmanuel Valjent;Denis Hervé;Joanne Darragh

  • Striatal Medium-Sized Spiny Neurons: Identification by Nuclear Staining and Study of Neuronal Subpopulations in BAC Transgenic Mice

    Miriam Matamales;Miriam Matamales;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Lucas Salomon;Bertrand Degos

  • A behavioural model to reveal place preference to Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol in mice

    E Valjent;R Maldonado

  • Inhibition of mTOR Signaling in Parkinson’s Disease Prevents l-DOPA–Induced Dyskinesia

    Emanuela Santini;Myriam Heiman;Paul Greengard;Emmanuel Valjent

  • Lack of CB1 cannabinoid receptors modifies nicotine behavioural responses, but not nicotine abstinence.

    Anna Castañé;E Valjent;Catherine Ledent;Marc Parmentier

  • Looking BAC at striatal signaling: cell-specific analysis in new transgenic mice

    Emmanuel Valjent;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Denis Hervé;Denis Hervé;Gilberto Fisone

  • Dopamine induces a PI3-kinase-independent activation of Akt in striatal neurons: a new route to cAMP response element-binding protein phosphorylation.

    Karen Brami-Cherrier;Emmanuel Valjent;Marta Garcia;Christiane Pagès

  • A phosphatase cascade by which rewarding stimuli control nucleosomal response

    Alexandre Stipanovich;Alexandre Stipanovich;Emmanuel Valjent;Emmanuel Valjent;Miriam Matamales;Miriam Matamales;Akinori Nishi;Akinori Nishi

  • Role of the ERK pathway in psychostimulant-induced locomotor sensitization

    Emmanuel Valjent;Jean-Christophe Corvol;James M Trzaskos;Jean-Antoine Girault

  • Delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol-induced MAPK/ERK and Elk-1 activation in vivo depends on dopaminergic transmission.

    Emmanuel Valjent;Emmanuel Valjent;Christiane Pagès;Monique Rogard;Marie-Jo Besson

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis Hervé
Denis Hervé Université Paris Cité
Gilberto Fisone
Gilberto Fisone Karolinska Institute
Jocelyne Caboche
Jocelyne Caboche Sorbonne University
Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard Rockefeller University
Bruno Giros
Bruno Giros McGill University
Christian Lüscher
Christian Lüscher University of Geneva
Salah El Mestikawy
Salah El Mestikawy Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Joël Bockaert
Joël Bockaert University of Montpellier
Philippe Marin
Philippe Marin University of Montpellier

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