Behavioral Neurobiology

Associated Research Group

Group Leader

Olga Valverde Granados

The Behavioral Neurobiology Research Group was constituted in 2007 and is a recognized team in the study of the neurobiological substrate of psychiatric disorders and neurotoxicity, including drug addiction, affective disorders, psychiatric co-morbidity and schizophrenia.

Our group belongs to the Experimental and Health Sciences Department of Pompeu Fabra University and is located in the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park. Our team is member of the Addictive Disorders Network (Red de Trastornos Adictivos RTA-ISCIII) and was integrated in the Neurosciences Programme of IMIM for the translational research activity undertaken.

 

Members

Marta Portero Tresserra (Researcher)

Vincent Andre Rene Warnault (Researcher)

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Main Publications

• Correa M, Pardo M, Bayarri P, López-Cruz L, San Miguel N, Valverde O, Ledent C, Salamone JD. Choosing voluntary exercise over sucrose consumption depends upon dopamine transmission: effects of haloperidol in wild type and adenosine A2AKO mice. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2016; 233(3): 393-404. IF 3.54. Q1.

• González-Sepúlveda M, Pozo O, Marcos J, Valverde O. Chronic pain causes a persistent anxiety state leading to increased ethanol intake in CD1 mice. J Psychopharmacol 2016; 30(2): 188-203. IF 3.637. Q1.

• Gracia-Rubio I, Martinez-Laorden E, Moscoso-Castro M, Milanés MV, Laorden ML, Valverde O. Maternal Separation Impairs Cocaine-Induced Behavioural Sensitization in Adolescent Mice. PLoS ONE 2016; 11(12): e0167483. IF 3.057. Q1.

• Marcos J, Renau N, Valverde O, Aznar G, Gracia-Rubio I, González-Sepúlveda M, Pérez-Jurado L, Ventura R, Segura J, Pozo O. Targeting tryptophan and tyrosine metabolism by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. J Chromatogr A 2016; 1434: 91-101. IF 3.926. Q1.

• Moscoso-Castro M, Gracia-Rubio I, Ciruela F, Valverde O. Genetic blockade of adenosine A2A receptors induces cognitive impairments and anatomical changes related to psychotic symptoms in mice. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2016; 26(7): 1227-1240. IF 4.409. Q1.

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