The laboratory studies the consequences and the mechanisms involved in the response pattern towards alcohol, based on early experiences with the psychotropic. It investigates the affective value of these early alcoholic memories and the effect they exert on the pattern of recognition, acceptance and subsequent consumption of the drug.
1- Alcohol exposure during late pregnancy and lactation: Effects on the subsequent response to the drug.
2- Vulnerability factors associated with alcohol intake in adolescence.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Lic. Florencia Anunziata
Psychologist
Doctoral student in Psychology, UNC.
CONICET doctoral fellow.
Lic. Génesis D’aloisio
Psychologist
Doctoral student in Psychology, UNC.
CONICET doctoral fellow
GRANTS
- SEDRONAR Research Grant, 2019. “Early alcohol exposure: acquisition of learning with an impact on respiratory reactivity and drug sensitization processes”.
- CONSOLIDAR-SECyT Research Grant, UNC 2018. “Early alcohol exposure: acquisition of learning with impact on respiratory reactivity and drug sensitization processes (continuation)” PIP 33620180100386CB.
Most relevant publications in recent years:
- Fetal Alcohol Programming of Subsequent Alcohol Affinity: A Review Based on Preclinical, Clinical and Epidemiological Studies. Miranda-Morales RS, D'Aloisio G, Anunziata F, Abate P, Molina JC. Front Behav Neurosci. 2020 Mar 10;14:33. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00033
- Co-existence of ethanol-related respiratory and motivational learning processes based on a tactile discrimination procedure in neonatal rats. D'aloisio G, Acevedo MB, Macchione AF, Anunziata F, Molina JC. Alcohol. 2020 Jun;85:65-76. doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2019.11.001.
- Brief ethanol exposure and stress-related factors disorganize neonatal breathing plasticity during the brain growth spurt period in the rat. Macchione AF, Anunziata F, Haymal BO, Abate P, Molina JC. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2018 Apr;235(4):983-998. doi: 10.1007/s00213-017-4815-2.
- Brain Acetaldehyde Exposure Impacts upon Neonatal Respiratory Plasticity and Ethanol-Related Learning in Rodents. Acevedo MB, D'Aloisio G, Haymal OB, Molina JC. Front Behav Neurosci. 2017 Mar 21;11:39. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00039.
- Neonatal experiences with ethanol intoxication modify respiratory and thermoregulatory plasticity and affect subsequent ethanol intake in rats. Acevedo MB, Macchione AF, Anunziata F, Haymal OB, Molina JC. Dev Psychobiol. 2017 Jan;59(1):48-59. doi: 10.1002/dev.21466.
- Long-term contextual memory in infant rats as evidenced by an ethanol conditioned tolerance procedure. Castelló S, Molina JC, Arias C. Behav Brain Res. 2017 Aug 4;332:243-249. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.06.007.
- Conditioned breathing depression during neonatal life as a function of associating ethanol odor and the drug's intoxicating effects. Macchione AF, Anunziata F, Culleré ME, Haymal BO, Spear N, Abate P, Molina JC. Dev Psychobiol. 2016 Sep;58(6):670-86. doi: 10.1002/dev.21398.
- Transition from ethanol-induced sensitization to tolerance across early and late infancy in the rat. Castello S, D'Aloisio G, Arias C, Molina JC. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2016 Nov-Dec;150-151:68-75. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2016.09.010.