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Federica Lucantonio

Johns Hopkins University

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Organism:mouse· 4 Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:scRNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:spatial domain detection· 1

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Anna J. Chang· 2 shared Francesca Romana FiocchiiD· 2 shared Jeremiah Y. CoheniD· 2 shared Marco PignatelliiD· 2 shared Aleesha Shi· 1 shared Andrew L. LemireiD· 1 shared Bilal A. BariiD· 1 shared Brenda C. ShieldsiD· 1 shared

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Ventral striatal astrocytes contribute to reinforcement learning

Julia Pai, Fatih Sogukpinar, Kei Ogasawara, Garrett J Smith, Francesca Romana Fiocchi, Yanchao Dai, Yifan Wu, Michael J. Frank, ShiNung Ching, Federica Lucantonio, Thomas Papouin, Marco Pignatelli, Naoki Hiratani, Ilya E. Monosov

This study shows that ventral striatal astrocytes influence reinforcement learning by modulating decision noisiness and reward-guided choice through calcium dynamics.

bioRxiv · Oct 20, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Ketamine rescues anhedonia by cell-type and input specific adaptations in the Nucleus Accumbens

Federica Lucantonio, Jacob Roeglin, Shuwen Li, Jaden Lu, Aleesha Shi, Katherine Czerpaniak, Francesca Romana Fiocchi, Leonardo Bontempi, Brenda C. Shields, Carlos A. Zarate, Michael R. Tadross, Marco Pignatelli

This study shows ketamine rescues stress-induced anhedonia in mice by cell-type-specific adaptations and input-specific synaptic changes in the nucleus accumbens.

Neuron · Mar 19, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Neuron-type specificity of dorsal raphe projections to ventral tegmental area

Anna J. Chang, Lihua Wang, Federica Lucantonio, Maya Adams, Andrew L. Lemire, Joshua Tate Dudman, Jeremiah Y. Cohen

The paper investigates DR to VTA projections in mice using single-cell RNA sequencing, showing anatomical and functional specificity of serotonergic and glutamatergic neurons.

bioRxiv · Jan 6, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience

Punishment history biases corticothalamic responses to motivationally-significant stimuli

Federica Lucantonio, Zhixiao Su, Anna J. Chang, Bilal A. Bari, Jeremiah Y. Cohen

The paper shows that punishment history affects corticothalamic responses to relevant stimuli, leading to biased behavior in mice.

bioRxiv · Apr 6, 2020 · PreprintNeuroscience