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Christina Gianoulakis
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Cortisol stress response predicts 9-year risky driving convictions in male first-time driving-while-impaired offenders
Psychopharmacology · 2019
Role of exercise in the treatment of alcohol use disorders.
Biomedical reports · 2016
Lower Cortisol Activity is Associated with First-Time Driving while Impaired.
Substance abuse : research and treatment · 2015
Latest funding
- $900,895
CIHR Team in transdisciplinary studies in DWI onset, persistence, prevention and treatment.
CIHR · 2008 · Co-investigator
- $199,695
Implication of the endogenous opioid system in the genetic predisposition to alcoholism
NSERC · 2007 · Principal investigator
- $152,000
Implication of the endogenous opioid system in the genetic predisposition to alcoholism
NSERC · 2003 · Principal investigator
13 publications.
Cortisol stress response predicts 9-year risky driving convictions in male first-time driving-while-impaired offenders
Thomas G. Brown, Marie Claude Ouimet, Louise Nadeau, Jacques Tremblay, Christina Gianoulakis, Sophie Couture, Nathaniel Moxley‐Kelly
Role of exercise in the treatment of alcohol use disorders.
Manthou E, Georgakouli K, Fatouros IG, Gianoulakis C, Theodorakis Y, Jamurtas AZ
Lower Cortisol Activity is Associated with First-Time Driving while Impaired.
Couture S, Ouimet MC, Gianoulakis C, Tremblay J, Ng Ying Kin N, Brochu S, Pruessner J, Dedovic K, Brown TG
Higher Crash and Near-Crash Rates in Teenaged Drivers With Lower Cortisol Response
Marie Claude Ouimet, Thomas G. Brown, Feng Guo, Sheila G. Klauer, Bruce G. Simons‐Morton, Youjia Fang, Suzanne E. Lee, Christina Gianoulakis, Thomas A. Dingus
The effect of naltrexone on alcohol's stimulant properties and self-administration behavior in social drinkers: influence of gender and genotype.
Setiawan E, Pihl RO, Cox SM, Gianoulakis C, Palmour RM, Benkelfat C, Leyton M
Effects of acute ethanol on corticotropin-releasing hormone and β-endorphin systems at the level of the rat central amygdala.
Lam MP, Gianoulakis C
Effects of corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor antagonists on the ethanol-induced increase of dynorphin A1-8 release in the rat central amygdala.
Lam MP, Gianoulakis C
Effects of acute ethanol on beta-endorphin release in the nucleus accumbens of selectively bred lines of alcohol-preferring AA and alcohol-avoiding ANA rats.
Lam MP, Nurmi H, Rouvinen N, Kiianmaa K, Gianoulakis C
Effect of acute ethanol administration on the release of opioid peptides from the midbrain including the ventral tegmental area.
Jarjour S, Bai L, Gianoulakis C
Effects of acute ethanol on opioid peptide release in the central amygdala: an in vivo microdialysis study.
Lam MP, Marinelli PW, Bai L, Gianoulakis C
CIHR Team in transdisciplinary studies in DWI onset, persistence, prevention and treatment.
Principal investigators: Brown, Thomas G; Nadeau, Louise; Ouimet, Marie Claude
Keywords: Driving While Impaired; Integrative Knowledge Translation; Substance Abuse; Team; Transdisciplinary
Implication of the endogenous opioid system in the genetic predisposition to alcoholism
Principal investigators: Gianoulakis, Christina
Implication of the endogenous opioid system in the genetic predisposition to alcoholism
Principal investigators: Gianoulakis, Christina
In vivo microdialysis system for freely moving animals to study the implication of the endogenous opioid system in alcohol reinforcement
Principal investigators: Gianoulakis, Christina
Centre de recherche et d'innovation en santé mentale à l'Hôpital Douglas
Principal investigators: Quirion, Remi
Keywords: santé mentale, recherche clinique de pointe, recherche biomédicale novatrice, incubateurs d'entreprises
Implication of the endogenous opioid system in the genetic predisposition to alcoholism
Principal investigators: Gianoulakis, Christina
Implication of the endogenous opioid system in the genetic predisposition to alcoholsim
Principal investigators: Gianoulakis, Christina
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Thomas Brown and Marie Ouimet: 34 shared papers
- Thomas Brown and Jacques Tremblay: 24 shared papers
- Marco Leyton and Robert Pihl: 21 shared papers
- Marie Ouimet and Jacques Tremblay: 17 shared papers
- Thomas Brown and Sophie Couture: 7 shared papers
- Thomas Brown and Jens Pruessner: 6 shared papers
- Jens Pruessner and Marco Leyton: 6 shared papers
- Jens Pruessner and Marie Ouimet: 6 shared papers
- Jens Pruessner and Jacques Tremblay: 6 shared papers
- Marie Ouimet and Sophie Couture: 6 shared papers
- Sophie Couture and Jacques Tremblay: 5 shared papers
- Thomas Brown and Christina Gianoulakis: 3 shared papers
- Marie Ouimet and Christina Gianoulakis: 3 shared papers
- Jens Pruessner and Robert Pihl: 2 shared papers
- Sophie Couture and Christina Gianoulakis: 2 shared papers
- Christina Gianoulakis and Jacques Tremblay: 2 shared papers
- Jens Pruessner and Christina Gianoulakis: 1 shared paper
- Marco Leyton and Christina Gianoulakis: 1 shared paper
- Robert Pihl and Christina Gianoulakis: 1 shared paper
- Department of Psychiatry
- Addiction Service
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Psychoeducation
Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Thomas Brown
Department of Psychiatry
3 shared papers, latest 2019
Marie Ouimet
Addiction Service
3 shared papers, latest 2019
Jacques Tremblay
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Sophie Couture
Department of Psychoeducation
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Jens Pruessner
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Marco Leyton
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Robert Pihl
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2011
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