Federica Lucantonio
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
- Phone: 314-273-3733
- Email: federica@nospam.wustl.edu
Additional Titles & Roles
- Instructor in Psychiatry
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Training: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2020
- PhD: Neuroscience: University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 2013
Major Awards
- Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship, 2015
- Sapienza University of Rome, Career Award in Neurobiology, 2015
Areas of Clinical Interest
Major Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, SUD
Research Interests
Decision-making, system neuroscience, affective disorders
Key Publications
- Lucantonio F, Gardner MP, Mirenzi A, Newman LE, Takahashi YK, Schoenbaum G, (2015 Dec). Neural Estimates of Imagined Outcomes in Basolateral Amygdala Depend on Orbitofrontal Cortex. J. Neurosci.. 35(50): 16521-30.
Read publication »Neural Estimates of Imagined Outcomes in Basolateral Amygdala Depend on Orbitofrontal Cortex. - Lucantonio F, Kambhampati S, Haney RZ, Atalayer D, Rowland NE, Shaham Y, Schoenbaum G, (2015 May). Effects of prior cocaine versus morphine or heroin self-administration on extinction learning driven by overexpectation versus omission of reward. Biol. Psychiatry. 77(10): 912-20.
Read publication »Effects of prior cocaine versus morphine or heroin self-administration on extinction learning driven by overexpectation versus omission of reward. - Lucantonio F, Takahashi YK, Hoffman AF, Chang CY, Bali-Chaudhary S, Shaham Y, Lupica CR, Schoenbaum G, (2014 Aug). Orbitofrontal activation restores insight lost after cocaine use. Nat. Neurosci.. 17(8): 1092-9.
Read publication »Orbitofrontal activation restores insight lost after cocaine use. - Lucantonio F, Stalnaker TA, Shaham Y, Niv Y, Schoenbaum G, (2012 Jan). The impact of orbitofrontal dysfunction on cocaine addiction. Nat. Neurosci.. 15(3): 358-66.
Read publication »The impact of orbitofrontal dysfunction on cocaine addiction.