Fabio Fumagalli

This study shows that high SPS-like rats have increased cocaine self-administration and altered glutamatergic/GABAergic signaling in the prefrontal cortex, suggesting a risk factor for cocaine use disorder.

This study introduces a no-timeout self-administration procedure to better mimic human heroin use patterns in rats, showing it alters heroin intake and social behavior but not cocaine use.

This study shows cocaine increases extracellular dopamine and serotonin by depleting storage vesicles in the rat nucleus accumbens, with individual differences in vesicular release affecting behavior and drug intake.