Nathalie Ginovart
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Department of Psychiatry
Group name: Individual Differences and Vulnerability to Addiction
Domains: Attention and Cognition
Keywords: addictive behaviors, behavioral addiction
Research activities
Understanding how and why certain individuals have a greater propensity to develop addictive behaviors remains a major challenge in neuroscience. Our lab is interested in investigating the risk factors and underlying neural correlates conferring a predisposition to addictive disorders (drug and behavioral addictions) and related neuropsychiatric illnesses. More specifically, we focus on understanding the contribution and interplay of behavioral trait variables considered important in the psychopathologies of addictions – impulsivity, novelty seeking and risky-decision making – and neurochemical dysregulations of the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system to the development of addictive disorders. We use a cross-species translational approach combining behavioral testing with in vivo molecular imaging techniques in human and animal models, associated with pharmacological and genetic tools in rodents.
Latest publications
Early environmental enrichment and impoverishment differentially affect addiction-related behavioral traits, cocaine-taking, and dopamine D receptor signaling in a rat model of vulnerability to drug abuse.
Fast dynamic brain PET imaging using stochastic variational prediction for recurrent frame generation.
PET Imaging of Dopamine Neurotransmission During EEG Neurofeedback.
Effect of 5-HT2A receptor antagonism on levels of D2/3 receptor occupancy and adverse behavioral side-effects induced by haloperidol: a SPECT imaging study in the rat.
Hide the members of the Lab
Prof. Nathalie Ginovart
+41 22 37 95 366
nathalie.ginovart@unige.ch
Chloe Arrondeau
+41 22 37 95 377
chloe.arrondeau@unige.ch
Florian Gilhet--Marchessaux
+41 22 37 95 377
florian.gilhet--marchessaux@unige.ch
Ginna Uruena Mendez
+41 22 37 95 377
ginna.uruenamendez@unige.ch
Lidia Bellés
+41 22 37 95 377
lidia.bellesano@unige.ch
Contact
Département de psychiatrie
Département des neurosciences fondamentales
HUG
Email: Nathalie.Ginovart@unige.ch