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Marcello Solinas

Marcello Solinas

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Neuroscience

D-Index
49
Citations
9025
World Ranking
5974
National Ranking
263

Overview

Marcello Solinas is affiliated with the University of Poitiers in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a strong focus in cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as behavioral neuroscience. They have contributed significantly to the understanding of neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, stress responses and cortisol, and receptor mechanisms and signaling.

The main topics of their research encompass:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity

Marcello Solinas has published extensively in several venues, with frequent contributions in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Psychopharmacology, Neuropharmacology, Therapies, and Current Opinion in Pharmacology.

Recent papers include:

  • Environmental enrichment-inspired pharmacological tools for the treatment of addiction, 2020, Current Opinion in Pharmacology
  • Predicting relapse in patients with severe alcohol use disorder: The role of alcohol insight and implicit alcohol associations, 2020, Addictive Behaviors
  • Effectiveness of drugs acting on adrenergic receptors in the treatment for tobacco or alcohol use disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Addiction
  • Time-dependent regulation of perineuronal nets in the cerebellar cortex during abstinence of cocaine-self administration, 2021, Psychopharmacology
  • A self-adjusting, progressive shock strength procedure to investigate resistance to punishment: Characterization in male and female rats, 2022, Neuropharmacology

Marcello Solinas frequently collaborates with several co-authors including Virginie Lardeux, Emilie Dugast, Nathalie Thiriet, Nématollah Jaafari, and Pauline Belujon.

Best Publications

  • Antidepressant-like activity and modulation of brain monoaminergic transmission by blockade of anandamide hydrolysis

    G. Gobbi;F. R. Bambico;R. Mangieri;M. Bortolato

  • Effects of enriched environment on animal models of neurodegenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders.

    Giovanni Laviola;Anthony J. Hannan;Simone Macrì;Marcello Solinas

  • Reversal of cocaine addiction by environmental enrichment

    Marcello Solinas;Claudia Chauvet;Nathalie Thiriet;Rana El Rawas

  • Caffeine Induces Dopamine and Glutamate Release in the Shell of the Nucleus Accumbens

    Marcello Solinas;Sergi Ferré;Zhi-Bing You;Marzena Karcz-Kubicha

  • The endocannabinoid system in brain reward processes

    Marcello Solinas;Steven R. Goldberg;Daniele Piomelli

  • Prevention and treatment of drug addiction by environmental enrichment.

    Marcello Solinas;Nathalie Thiriet;Claudia Chauvet;Mohamed Jaber

  • Anandamide administration alone and after inhibition of fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) increases dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens shell in rats.

    Marcello Solinas;Zuzana Justinova;Zuzana Justinova;Steven R. Goldberg;Gianluigi Tanda

  • Involvement of adenosine A1 and A2A receptors in the motor effects of caffeine after its acute and chronic administration.

    Marzena Karcz-Kubicha;Katerina Antoniou;Anton Terasmaa;Davide Quarta

  • Opposite modulatory roles for adenosine A1 and A2A receptors on glutamate and dopamine release in the shell of the nucleus accumbens. Effects of chronic caffeine exposure

    Davide Quarta;Sergi Ferré;Marcello Solinas;Zhi-Bing You

  • Behavioural sensitization after repeated exposure to Delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol and cross-sensitization with morphine.

    C Cadoni;Augusta Pisanu;M Solinas;Elio Maria Gioachino Acquas

  • Environmental enrichment during early stages of life reduces the behavioral, neurochemical, and molecular effects of cocaine

    Marcello Solinas;Nathalie Thiriet;Rana El Rawas;Virginie Lardeux

  • The Cannabinoid CB1 Antagonist N-Piperidinyl-5-(4-chlorophenyl)-1-(2,4-dichlorophenyl) -4-methylpyrazole-3-carboxamide (SR-141716A) Differentially Alters the Reinforcing Effects of Heroin under Continuous Reinforcement, Fixed Ratio, and Progressive Ratio Schedules of Drug Self-Administration in Rats

    Marcello Solinas;Leigh V. Panlilio;Katerina Antoniou;Lara A. Pappas

  • Psychostimulant sensitization: differential changes in accumbal shell and core dopamine

    Cristina Cadoni;Marcello Solinas;Gaetano Di Chiara

  • Motivational effects of cannabinoids and opioids on food reinforcement depend on simultaneous activation of cannabinoid and opioid systems.

    Marcello Solinas;Steven R Goldberg

  • Environmental enrichment reduces cocaine seeking and reinstatement induced by cues and stress but not by cocaine.

    Claudia Chauvet;Virginie Lardeux;Steven R Goldberg;Mohamed Jaber

  • Two Brain Sites for Cannabinoid Reward

    Abraham Zangen;Marcello Solinas;Satoshi Ikemoto;Steven R Goldberg

  • Adenosine A1-A2A receptor heteromers: new targets for caffeine in the brain.

    Ferre S;Ciruela F;Borycz J;Solinas M

  • Fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) inhibition enhances memory acquisition through activation of PPAR-alpha nuclear receptors.

    Carmen Mazzola;Julie Medalie;Maria Scherma;Leigh V. Panlilio

  • Adenosine receptor‐mediated modulation of dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens depends on glutamate neurotransmission and N‐methyl‐d‐aspartate receptor stimulation

    Davide Quarta;Janusz Borycz;Marcello Solinas;Kshitij Patkar

  • Using drug-discrimination techniques to study the abuse-related effects of psychoactive drugs in rats

    Marcello Solinas;Leigh V Panlilio;Zuzana Justinova;Sevil Yasar

  • The endogenous cannabinoid anandamide produces delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol-like discriminative and neurochemical effects that are enhanced by inhibition of fatty acid amide hydrolase but not by inhibition of anandamide transport.

    Marcello Solinas;Gianluigi Tanda;Zuzana Justinova;Zuzana Justinova;Carrie E. Wertheim

  • Loss of environmental enrichment increases vulnerability to cocaine addiction.

    Joëlle Nader;Claudia Chauvet;Claudia Chauvet;Chauvet Claudia;Chauvet Claudia;Rana El Rawas;Rana El Rawas

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohamed Jaber
Mohamed Jaber University of Poitiers
Sergi Ferré
Sergi Ferré National Institute on Drug Abuse
Leigh V. Panlilio
Leigh V. Panlilio National Institute on Drug Abuse
G. Di Chiara
G. Di Chiara University of Cagliari
Walter Fratta
Walter Fratta University of Cagliari
Abraham Zangen
Abraham Zangen Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Francisco Ciruela
Francisco Ciruela University of Barcelona
Roy A. Wise
Roy A. Wise National Institute on Drug Abuse
Marco Bortolato
Marco Bortolato University of Florida
Michael T. Bardo
Michael T. Bardo University of Kentucky

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