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Marcello Solinas

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Approach:experimental assay· 5 Organism:rat· 5 Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Assay:imaging· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Emilie Dugast· 4 shared Virginie Lardeux· 4 shared Éric Balado· 2 shared Pauline BelujoniD· 2 shared Stevenson Desmercieres· 2 shared Armand ChatardiD· 1 shared Claire Lafay‐ChebassieriD· 1 shared Claudia Chauvet· 1 shared

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2023-2025 · peak 4/yr

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6 papers

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Environmental enrichment selectively restores brain metabolic activity during cocaine abstinence

Pauline Belujon, Virginie Lardeux, Emilie Dugast, Sophie Sérrière, Sylvie Bodard, Julie Busson, Clovis Tauber, Laurent Galineau, Marcello Solinas

This study shows that environmental enrichment restores brain metabolic activity in specific regions during cocaine abstinence, with different effects over time.

bioRxiv · Apr 26, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Cognitive effort increases the intensity of rewards

Mejda Wahab, Nicole L. Mead, Stevenson Desmercieres, Virginie Lardeux, Emilie Dugast, Roy Frederick Baumeister, Marcello Solinas

The paper shows that cognitive effort increases reward intensity, leading to overconsumption of unhealthy food and drugs in both rats and humans.

PNAS Nexus · Oct 1, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Effects of high fat and sugar diet on motivation for food and resistance to punishment in rats: role of sex and age of exposure

Stevenson Desmercieres, Virginie Lardeux, Jean-Emmanuel Longueville, Emilie Dugast, Nathalie Thiriet, Marcello Solinas

This study examines the effects of intermittent high fat and sugar diet exposure on food motivation and punishment resistance in rats, finding no persistent addiction-like behavior.

bioRxiv · Nov 13, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience

Tobacco Images Choice and Its Association with Craving and Dependence in Cigarette Smokers

Marcello Solinas, Claudia Chauvet, Claire Lafay‐Chebassier, Paul Vanderkam, Lila Barillot, Scott J. Moeller, Rita Z. Goldstein, Xavier Noël, Nématollah Jaafari, Armand Chatard

This study develops and validates the probabilistic image choice (PIC) task to measure tobacco image seeking behavior in smokers, finding it correlates with craving but not other dependence measures.

bioRxiv · Aug 30, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience

Sex-dependent effects of stress on insular cortex-to-nucleus accumbens synaptic plasticity

Manon Gauthier, Emilie Dugast, Virginie Lardeux, Kevin Letort, Laure Belnoue, Éric Balado, Marcello Solinas, Pauline Belujon

This study shows that acute stress affects synaptic plasticity in the aIC-NAcC pathway differently in male and female rats, suggesting sex-dependent neuroadaptations related to stress-related psychiatric disorders.

bioRxiv · Aug 28, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience

Premorbid performances determine the deleterious effects of nigrostriatal degeneration and pramipexole on behavioural flexibility

Mélina Decourt, Éric Balado, Maureen Francheteau, Marcello Solinas, Marianne Benoit‐Marand, Pierre‐Olivier Fernagut

This study shows that nigrostriatal degeneration and pramipexole differentially impair behavioural flexibility in rats, with effects dependent on premorbid behavioural flexibility.

npj Parkinson s Disease · Mar 1, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience