Circuit and synaptic plasticity mechanisms of approach and avoidance social behavior.

Project Information

SocialNAc

Grant agreement ID: 864552

DOI

10.3030/864552

Project closed

EC signature date 9 March 2020

Start date 1 June 2020

End date 31 May 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 996 424,00

EU contribution

€ 1 996 424,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE
Switzerland

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Publications

Other (1)

Insular cortex to ventral striatum synapses encode valence of social interaction.

Author(s): Pedro Espinosa, Benoit Girard, Mattia Lucchini, Federica Campanelli, Valentina Tiriticco, Camilla Bellone
Published in: 2022
Publisher: BiorXiv
DOI: 10.1101/2022.11.08.515650

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Translational research approach to social orienting deficits in autism: the role of superior colliculus-ventral tegmental pathway

Author(s): Alessandro Contestabile, Nada Kojovic, Giulia Casarotto, Farnaz Delavari, Patric Hagmann, Marie Schaer, Camilla Bellone
Published in: Molecular Psychiatry, Issue 30, 2025, Page(s) 3729-3739, ISSN 1359-4184
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41380-025-02962-w

Deconstructing the contribution of sensory cues in social approach

Author(s): Alessandro Contestabile , Giulia Casarotto , Benoit Girard , Stamatina Tzanoulinou , Camilla Bellone
Published in: European Journal of Neuroscience, 2021, ISSN 1460-9568
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15179

Superior Colliculus to VTA pathway controls orienting response and influences social interaction in mice

Author(s): Clément Solié, Alessandro Contestabile, Pedro Espinosa, Stefano Musardo, Sebastiano Bariselli, Chieko Huber, Alan Carleton, Camilla Bellone
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28512-4

Oxytocin neurons mediate the effect of social isolation via the VTA circuits

Author(s): Stefano Musardo; Alessandro Contestabile; Marit Knoop; Olivier Baud; Camilla Bellone
Published in: Crossref, 2021, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.73421

Inhibition of Trpv4 rescues circuit and social deficits unmasked by acute inflammatory response in a Shank3 mouse model of Autism

Author(s): Stamatina Tzanoulinou, Stefano Musardo, Alessandro Contestabile, Sebastiano Bariselli, Giulia Casarotto, Elia Magrinelli, Yong-hui Jiang, Denis Jabaudon, Camilla Bellone
Published in: Molecular Psychiatry, Issue 27, 2023, Page(s) 2080-2094, ISSN 1359-4184
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41380-021-01427-0

VTA dopamine neuron activity encodes social interaction and promotes reinforcement learning through social prediction error

Author(s): Clément Solié, Benoit Girard, Beatrice Righetti, Malika Tapparel, Camilla Bellone
Published in: Nature Neuroscience, Issue 25, 2022, Page(s) 86-97, ISSN 1097-6256
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-021-00972-9

Early Postnatal <i>Shank3</i> Downregulation in the Nucleus Accumbens Impairs Performance in Social Conditioning Paradigms in Male Mice

Author(s): Alessandro Contestabile, Giulia Casarotto, Benoit Girard, Beatrice Righetti, Clément Solié, Camilla Bellone, Stamatina Tzanoulinou
Published in: European Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 62, 2025, ISSN 0953-816X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.70203

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Olfactory Tubercle mediates adaptive social behavior through distinct control of threat assessment and memory updating.

Author(s): Camilla Bellone, Giulia Casarotto, Lorena Jourdain, Anastasia Gemelli
Published in: Nature Commnication, 2025, ISSN 2693-5015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5579784/v1