Neuropsychopharmacology and Behavioral Neuroscience:
The goal of our research is to better understand the behavioral, neurochemical and molecular mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric disorders and their treatment. A major research line of our lab, concerns the sex-dependent neurobiological adaptations that underlie the actions of antidepressant drugs and stress at the preclinical level with the ultimate goal to identify novel targets for individualized and sex-oriented psychopharmacotherapies. In this context, experiments are guided by neuropharmacological or physiological hypotheses and a combination of rodent stress models, neurochemical and molecular methods are implemented.
Major research areas of our lab include:
Sex differences in animal models of depression and antidepressant response
Role of serotonin in the neurobiology of neuropsychiatric disorders such as major depression and schizophrenia
Individual differences in response to stress and antidepressants
Neuroimmunopharmacology of major depression
