Federica Lucantonio

Education & Training

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• D.Sc.: University of Maryland-College Park, 2013

Major Awards

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• Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship, 2015
• Sapienza University of Rome, Career Award in Neurobiology, 2015

Areas of Clinical Interest

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Major Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, SUD

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Research Interests

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Decision-making, system neuroscience, affective disorders

Recent Publications

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• Ketamine rescues anhedonia by cell-type- and input-specific adaptations in the nucleus accumbens

  Lucantonio, F., Roeglin, J., Li, S., Lu, J., Shi, A., Czerpaniak, K., Fiocchi, F. R., Bontempi, L., Shields, B. C., Zarate, C. A., Tadross, M. R. & Pignatelli, M., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Neuron.

• Aversive stimuli bias corticothalamic responses to motivationally significant cues

  Lucantonio, F., Kim, E., Su, Z., Chang, A. J., Bari, B. A. & Cohen, J. Y., Nov 2021, In: eLife. 10, e57634.

• Cooperative synaptic and intrinsic plasticity in a disynaptic limbic circuit drive stress-induced anhedonia and passive coping in mice

  Pignatelli, M., Tejeda, H. A., Barker, D. J., Bontempi, L., Wu, J., Lopez, A., Palma Ribeiro, S., Lucantonio, F., Parise, E. M., Torres-Berrio, A., Alvarez-Bagnarol, Y., Marino, R. A. M., Cai, Z. L., Xue, M., Morales, M., Tamminga, C. A., Nestler, E. J. & Bonci, A., Jun 2021, In: Molecular Psychiatry. 26, 6, p. 1860-1879 20 p.

• Thinking Outside the Box: Orbitofrontal Cortex, Imagination, and How We Can Treat Addiction

  Schoenbaum, G., Chang, C. Y., Lucantonio, F. & Takahashi, Y. K., Dec 1 2016, In: Neuropsychopharmacology. 41, 13, p. 2966-2976 11 p.

• Neural estimates of imagined outcomes in basolateral amygdala depend on orbitofrontal cortex

  Lucantonio, F., Gardner, M. P. H., Mirenzi, A., Newman, L. E., Takahashi, Y. K. & Schoenbaum, G., Dec 16 2015, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 35, 50, p. 16521-16530 10 p.

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