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Alessandro Contestabile

13PUBLICATIONS
33CO-AUTHORS
Developmental genetics (incl. sex determination)Neurology and neuromuscular diseasesSensory systemsSocial and affective neuroscienceMortality
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Publications (13)

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|Nov 21, 2025
A striosomal accumbens pathway drives stereotyped behavior through an aversive Esr1+ hypothalamic-habenula circuit.

Thomas Contesse, Buse Yel Bektash, Marta Graziano

|Aug 04, 2025
Early Postnatal Shank3 Downregulation in the Nucleus Accumbens Impairs Performance in Social Conditioning Paradigms in Male Mice.

Alessandro Contestabile, Giulia Casarotto, Benoit Girard

|Apr 05, 2025
Translational research approach to social orienting deficits in autism: the role of superior colliculus-ventral tegmental pathway.

Alessandro Contestabile, Nada Kojovic, Giulia Casarotto

|May 11, 2023
Shank3 deficits in the anteromedial bed nucleus of the stria terminalis trigger an anxiety phenotype in mice.

Alessandro Contestabile, Giulia Casarotto, Stefano Musardo

|Apr 22, 2022
Oxytocin neurons mediate the effect of social isolation via the VTA circuits.

Stefano Musardo, Alessandro Contestabile, Marit Knoop

|Feb 11, 2022
Superior Colliculus to VTA pathway controls orienting response and influences social interaction in mice.

Clément Solié, Alessandro Contestabile, Pedro Espinosa

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Camilla Bellone

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Stamatina Tzanoulinou

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Stefano Musardo

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Denis Jabaudon

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Clément Solié

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E Schmidlin

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Charles Quairiaux

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Jozsef Z Kiss

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Julien Prados

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Daniel Huber

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Camilla Bellone

3 joint publications

Stamatina Tzanoulinou

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Stefano Musardo

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