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Overview

Sylvain Houle is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Neurology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics of their work include Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects, Tryptophan and Brain Disorders, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sylvain Houle are Pablo Rusjan, Isabelle Boileau, Stephen J. Kish, Rachel F. Tyndale, and Junchao Tong.

The most common publication venues for their research contributions include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Addiction Biology
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Journal of Neurology

Some recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Sylvain Houle are:

  • "Translocator Protein Distribution Volume Predicts Reduction of Symptoms During Open-Label Trial of Celecoxib in Major Depressive Disorder", 2020, Biological Psychiatry
  • "Lower brain fatty acid amide hydrolase in treatment-seeking patients with alcohol use disorder: a positron emission tomography study with [C-11]CURB", 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Fatty acid amide hydrolase is lower in young cannabis users", 2020, Addiction Biology
  • "Elevated fatty acid amide hydrolase in the prefrontal cortex of borderline personality disorder: a [11C]CURB positron emission tomography study", 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Imaging of astrocytes in posttraumatic stress disorder: A PET study with the monoamine oxidase B radioligand [11C]SL25.1188", 2021, European Neuropsychopharmacology

Best Publications

  • Hemispheric encoding/retrieval asymmetry in episodic memory: positron emission tomography findings

    Endel Tulving;Shitij Kapur;Fergus I. M. Craik;Morris Moscovitch

  • Consensus nomenclature for in vivo imaging of reversibly binding radioligands

    Robert B. Innis;Vincent Joseph Cunningham;Jacques Delforge;Masahiro Fujita

  • Relationship Between Dopamine D2 Occupancy, Clinical Response, and Side Effects: A Double-Blind PET Study of First-Episode Schizophrenia

    Shitij Kapur;Robert Zipursky;Corey Jones;Gary Remington

  • Age-Related Differences in Neural Activity during Memory Encoding and Retrieval: A Positron Emission Tomography Study

    Roberto Cabeza;Cheryl L. Grady;Lars Nyberg;Anthony R. McIntosh

  • Role of translocator protein density, a marker of neuroinflammation, in the brain during major depressive episodes.

    Elaine Setiawan;Alan A. Wilson;Alan A. Wilson;Romina Mizrahi;Pablo M. Rusjan

  • Changes in regional brain glucose metabolism measured with positron emission tomography after paroxetine treatment of major depression.

    Sidney H. Kennedy;Kenneth R. Evans;Stephanie Krüger;Helen S. Mayberg

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of encoding in episodic memory: levels of processing effect

    Shitij Kapur;Fergus I. M. Craik;Endel Tulving;Alan A. Wilson

  • Elevated Monoamine Oxidase A Levels in the Brain: An Explanation for the Monoamine Imbalance of Major Depression

    Jeffrey H. Meyer;Nathalie Ginovart;Anahita Boovariwala;Sandra Sagrati

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of retrieval in episodic memory: auditory sentence recognition

    Endel Tulving;Shitij Kapur;Hans J. Markowitsch;Fergus I. M. Craik

  • Serotonin transporter occupancy of five selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors at different doses: an [11C]DASB positron emission tomography study.

    Jeffrey H. Meyer;Alan A. Wilson;Sandra Sagrati;Doug Hussey

  • Increased striatal dopamine release in Parkinsonian patients with pathological gambling: a [11C] raclopride PET study

    T. D. L. Steeves;T. D. L. Steeves;J. Miyasaki;M. Zurowski;A. E. Lang

  • The seats of reason? An imaging study of deductive and inductive reasoning.

    Vinod Goel;Brian Gold;Shitij Kapur;Sylvain Houle

  • 5-HT2 and D2 Receptor Occupancy of Olanzapine in Schizophrenia: A PET Investigation

    Shitij Kapur;Robert B. Zipursky;Gary Remington;Corey Jones

  • General and specific brain regions involved in encoding and retrieval of events: what, where, and when.

    Lars Nyberg;Anthony R. McIntosh;Roberto Cabeza;Reza Habib

  • In-vivo imaging of Alzheimer disease beta-amyloid with [11C]SB-13 PET.

    Nicolaas P L G Verhoeff;Alan A Wilson;Shinichiro Takeshita;Liat Trop

  • Activation of medial temporal structures during episodic memory retrieval.

    Nyberg L;McIntosh Ar;Houle S;Nilsson Lg

  • Functional brain maps of retrieval mode and recovery of episodic information.

    Lars Nyberg;Endel Tulving;Reza Habib;Lars-Göran Nilsson

  • Functional role of the prefrontal cortex in retrieval of memories: A PET study.

    Shitij Kapur;Fergus I. M. Craik;Corey Jones;Gregory M. Brown

  • Occupancy of serotonin transporters by paroxetine and citalopram during treatment of depression: a [(11)C]DASB PET imaging study.

    Jeffrey H. Meyer;Alan A. Wilson;Nathalie Ginovart;Verdell Goulding

  • An Explanation for the Monoamine Imbalance of Major Depression

    Jeffrey H. Meyer;Nathalie Ginovart;Anahita Boovariwala;Sandra Sagrati

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan A. Wilson
Alan A. Wilson Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Shitij Kapur
Shitij Kapur King's College London
Isabelle Boileau
Isabelle Boileau Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Stephen J. Kish
Stephen J. Kish Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Gary Remington
Gary Remington Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Bruce G. Pollock
Bruce G. Pollock University of Toronto
Ariel Graff-Guerrero
Ariel Graff-Guerrero Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Anthony R. McIntosh
Anthony R. McIntosh Simon Fraser University
Endel Tulving
Endel Tulving University of Toronto
Robert B. Zipursky
Robert B. Zipursky University of Toronto

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