M. Le Moal

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in France Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in France Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Drug addiction, dysregulation of reward, and allostasis.

  George F Koob;Michel Le Moal

  3698
  Citations

• Drug Abuse: Hedonic Homeostatic Dysregulation

  George F. Koob;Michel Le Moal;Michel Le Moal

  3432
  Citations

• Mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic network: functional and regulatory roles

  M. Le Moal;H. Simon

  1637
  Citations

• Factors that predict individual vulnerability to amphetamine self-administration

  PV Piazza;JM Deminiere;M Le Moal;H Simon

  1635
  Citations

• Prenatal stress produces learning deficits associated with an inhibition of neurogenesis in the hippocampus

  V. Lemaire;Muriel Koehl;M. Le Moal;D. Abrous

  1498
  Citations

• Adult neurogenesis: from precursors to network and physiology.

  Djoher Nora Abrous;Muriel Koehl;Michel Le Moal

  1459
  Citations

• Plasticity of reward neurocircuitry and the 'dark side' of drug addiction.

  George F Koob;Michel Le Moal

  1125
  Citations

• Corticotropin releasing factor produces behavioural activation in rats

  Richard E. Sutton;George F. Koob;Michel Le Moal;Jean Rivier

  959
  Citations

• Pathophysiological Basis of Vulnerability to Drug Abuse: Role of an Interaction Between Stress, Glucocorticoids, and Dopaminergic Neurons

  Pier Vincenzo Piazza;Michel Le Moal

  860
  Citations

• The role of stress in drug self-administration

  P.V. Piazza;M. Le Moal

  828
  Citations

• Spatial memory performances of aged rats in the water maze predict levels of hippocampal neurogenesis.

  Elodie Drapeau;Willy Mayo;Catherine Aurousseau;Michel Le Moal

  804
  Citations

• Maternal glucocorticoid secretion mediates long-term effects of prenatal stress.

  Arnaud Barbazanges;Pier Vincenzo Piazza;Michel Le Moal;Stefania Maccari

  797
  Citations

• Adoption reverses the long-term impairment in glucocorticoid feedback induced by prenatal stress

  S. Maccari;P. V. Piazza;Mohamed Kabbaj;A. Barbazanges

  728
  Citations

• Corticosterone levels determine individual vulnerability to amphetamine self-administration.

  P V Piazza;S Maccari;J M Deminière;M Le Moal

  693
  Citations

• Prenatal stress increases the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis response in young and adult rats

  Chantal Henry;Mohamed Kabbaj;Hervé Simon;Michel Le Moal

  692
  Citations

• Stress- and pharmacologically-induced behavioral sensitization increases vulnerability to acquisition of amphetamine self-administration

  Pier Vincenzo Piazza;Jean Marie Deminiere;Michel le Moal;Hervé Simon

  680
  Citations

• Efferents and afferents of the ventral tegmental-A10 region studied after local injection of [3H]leucine and horseradish peroxidase

  Hervé Simon;Michel Le Moal;Andre Calas

  570
  Citations

• Modulation of social memory in male rats by neurohypophyseal peptides.

  Robert Dantzer;R. M. Bluthe;G. F. Koob;M. Le Moal;M. Le Moal

  540
  Citations

• Dopaminergic A10 neurones are involved in cognitive functions

  Hervé Simon;Bernard Scatton;Michel Le Moal

  520
  Citations

• Vertical shifts in self-administration dose-response functions predict a drug-vulnerable phenotype predisposed to addiction.

  Pier Vincenzo Piazza;Véronique Deroche-Gamonent;Françoise Rouge-Pont;Michel Le Moal

  497
  Citations

• Novelty-Seeking in Rats-Biobehavioral Characteristics and Possible Relationship with the Sensation-Seeking Trait in Man

  F. Dellu;P.V. Piazza;W. Mayo;M. Le Moal

  496
  Citations

• Differential effects of inescapable footshocks and of stimuli previously paired with inescapable footshocks on dopamine turnover in cortical and limbic areas of the rat

  J.P. Herman;D. Guillonneau;R. Dantzer;B. Scatton

  465
  Citations

• Glucocorticoids as a biological substrate of reward: physiological and pathophysiological implications.

  Pier Vincenzo Piazza;Michel Le Moal

  458
  Citations