Environnement social et comportement de type addictif, quel rapport ?
Dans une interview accordée au journal Savoir(s), Victor Mathis, chargé de recherche dans l'équipe Addictions, évoque l’influence de l’environnement social sur la consommation d’opioïdes et de psychostimulants dans le cadre de différentes études pré-cliniques.
Incubation of social deficit during morphine abstinence in male mice using a novel unbiased and automatized method
Face of the global opioid addiction epidemic and the frequent relapses observed after withdrawal, understanding the brain and behavioral mechanisms of abstinence has become a major public health challenge. The work of Victor MATHIS and Emmanuel DARCQ addresses this issue by exploring how opioid…
The neural circuits and signalling pathways of opioid use disorder
This review from Nature Reviews Neuroscience, written by our two researchers, Emmanuel DARCQ and Victor MATHIS, in collaboration with Aliza EHRLICH, highlights recent advances in our understanding of opioid receptors and the neural circuits in which they operate (including the broad network of…
Rethinking addiction
Rethinking addiction: Technological advances, mechanistic insights and the re-evaluation of substance use disorders. This collection of scientific articles explores how emerging technologies, ranging from neuroscience tools to behavioral modeling, are reshaping our understanding of addiction and…
Brain Week
Held every year in March, Brain Week is an international event organized simultaneously in some 100 countries and over 120 towns in France, to raise public awareness of the importance of brain research.
Doctoral grants and 4th-year thesis funding
Dersu OZDEMIR, a PhD student in her 4th year, and Solène POIVEY, a future PhD student, have both obtained funding to continue their work in the Addictions team.
A new step in characterizing the emotional consequences of opioid withdrawal
The University of Strasbourg's Savoir(s) newspaper spotlights the Addictions team!