Prof. Osvaldo Giorgi

Department of Life and Environmental Sciences

University of Cagliari, Italy

Email: giorgi@unica.it

Qualifications

2011 Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, Italy

Publications (Selected)

1. Giorgi, G. Piras, D. Lecca and M.G. Corda.  Behavioural effects of acute and repeated cocaine treatments: A comparative study in sensitisation-prone RHA rats and their sensitisation-resistant RLA counterparts.  Psychopharmacology, 180: 530-538, 2005.

2. Giorgi, D. Lecca G. Piras and M.G. Corda.  Differential activation of dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core and shell after acute or repeated amphetamine injections: A comparative study in the Roman high- and low-avoidance rat lines.  Neuroscience, 135: 987-998, 2005.

3. M.G. Corda, G. Piras and O. Giorgi.  Neonatal ventral hippocampal lesions potentiate amphetamine-induced increments in dopamine efflux in the core, but not shell, of the nucleus accumbens. Biol. Psychiatry, 60: 1188-1195, 2006.

4. Giorgi, G. Piras, M.G. Corda.  The psychogenetically selected Roman high- and low-avoidance rat lines: A model to study the individual vulnerability to drug addiction. Neurosci Biobehav Rev., 31: 148-163, 2007.

5. L. Fattore, G. Piras, M.G. Corda, O. Giorgi.  The Roman high- and low-avoidance rat lines differ in the acquisition, maintenance, extinction and reinstatement of intravenous cocaine self-administration. Neuropsychopharmacol., 34: 1091-1101, 2009. (doi: 10.1038/npp.2008.43).

6. G. Piras, O. Giorgi, M.G. Corda. Effects of antidepressants on the performance in the forced swim test of two psychogenetically selected lines of rats that differ in coping strategies to aversive conditions. Psychopharmacology, 211: 403-414, 2010.

7. F. Sanna, M.G. Corda, M.R. Melis, M.A. Piludu, S. Löber, H. Hübner, P. Gmeiner, A. Argiolas, O. Giorgi. Dopamine agonist-induced penile erection and yawning: a comparative study in outbred Roman high- and low-avoidance rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav., 109: 59-66, 2013. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2013.05.002.

8. G. Piras, M.A. Piludu, O. Giorgi, M.G. Corda. Effects of chronic antidepressant treatments in a putative genetic model of vulnerability (Roman low-avoidance rats) and resistance (Roman high-avoidance rats) to stress-induced depression. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 231: 43-53, 2014. doi: 10.1007/s00213-013-3205-7.

9. F. Sanna, M.G. Corda, M.R. Melis, M.A. Piludu, O. Giorgi, A. Argiolas. Male Roman high- and low-avoidance rats show different patterns of copulatory behaviour: comparison with Sprague Dawley rats. Physiol Behav., 127: 27-36, 2014. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.01.002.

10. F. Sanna, M.A. Piludu, M.G. Corda, A. Argiolas, O. Giorgi, M.R. Melis. Dopamine is involved in the different patterns of copulatory behaviour of Roman high and low avoidance rats: Studies with apomorphine and haloperidol. Pharmacol Biochem Behav, 124: 211-219, 2014. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2014.06.012.

11. M. G. Corda, G. Piras, M.A. Piludu, O. Giorgi. Differential effects of voluntary ethanol consumption on dopamine output in the nucleus accumbens shell of Roman high- and low-avoidance rats: A behavioral and brain microdialysis study. World Journal of Neuroscience (WJNS), 4:  279-292, 2014.

12. Giorgi, M.G. Corda, M. Sabariego, V. Giugliano, M.A. Piludu, M. Rosas, E. Acquas. Differential effects of cocaine on ERK phosphorylation in nuclei of the extended amygdala and prefrontal cortex of psychogenetically selected Roman high- and Low-avoidance rats. Eur J Pharmacol (in press).

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