Anne-Noël Samaha

The ''Absorption Hypothesis'': Linking Ultra-Processed Foods to Metabolic and Brain Health

Principal investigators: Small, Dana M; Dagher, Alain; De Araujo, Ivan E; Décarie-Spain, Léa; Fulton, Stephanie

Keywords: Dopamine Signaling; Eating Behavior; Eating Rate; Food Environment; Food Reward; Gut-Brain Axis; Neuroplasticity; Nutrient Absorption Kinetics; Obesity And Metabolic Health; Ultra-Processed Foods

Modeling cue-triggered relapse to cocaine use in rats

Principal investigators: Samaha, Anne-Noël

Keywords: Addiction; Basolateral Amygdala; Cocaine; Drug Cues; Glutamate; Intravenous Self-Administration; Orbitofrontal Cortex; Rat; Relapse

Amygdala circuitry and the response to cues that signal rewards

Principal investigators: Samaha, Anne-Noël

Modeling the Transition to Cocaine Addiction in Rats

Principal investigators: Samaha, Anne-Noël

Keywords: Addiction; Cocaine; Dopamine; Fast-Scan Cyclic Voltammetry; Intermittent Drug Access; Intravenous Self-Administration; Optogenetics; Prefrontal Cortex; Rat; Sensitization/Tolerance

Microglial regulation of cocaine self-administration in rats

Principal investigators: Stellwagen, David

Keywords: Accubens; Addiction; Cocaine; Inflammation; Microglia; Reinstatement; Self-Administration; Tnf

Neural mechanisms that sub-serve sensitization to the behavioral effects of psychostimulant drugs.

Principal investigators: Rompré, Pierre-Paul; Levesque, Daniel

Keywords: Addiction; Amphetamine; Cocaine; Conditioned Reward; Drug Self-Administration; Immunohistochemistry; Psychostimulant; Reward; Sex Differences

Chronic anti-dopaminergic treatment, conditioned motivation and amygdala circuitry

Principal investigators: Samaha, AnneNoël

How does rapid drug delivery promote compulsive drug use?

Principal investigators: Samaha, Anne-Noël

Keywords: Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor; Dorsal Striatum; Drug Addiction; Glutamate; Intravenous Drug Self-Administration; Orbitofrontal Cortex; Speed Of Drug Delivery

Neurotensin modulation of limbic neurotransmission

Principal investigators: Rompré, Pierre-Paul

Keywords: Addiction; Amphetamine; Dopamine; Electrophysiology; Glutamate; Neurotensin

How does the rate of drug delivery influence the potential for addiction?

Principal investigators: Samaha, Anne-Noël

Keywords: Addiction; Drug Self-Administration; Glutamate; Nucleus Accumbens; Prefrontal Cortex; Rate Of Drug Delivery