Valentina Ferretti
Affiliated Researcher
Post doc
About
September 2014 - present: Post-doc in the Genetic of Cognition lab, Neuroscience and Brain Technologies Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
March 2010 - September 2014: Post-doctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Imperial College, London
January 2008 - March 2010: Research assistent in the Laboratory of Neuroplasticity and Disease, Imperial College, London
October 2005 – January 2009: Ph.D. student at the Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Sapienza University of Rome
January 2005 - October 2005: Master student at the Centre des Researches sur la Cognition Animal, Universitè Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
July 2004 - December 2004: Fellow at the Institute of Cellular Biology, CNR, Monterotondo, Rome
IIT Publications
- 2018
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Remote memories are enhanced by COMT activity through dysregulation of the endocannabinoid system in the prefrontal cortex
Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 23, (no. 4), pp. 1040-1050 -
Understanding others: emotion recognition abilities in humans and other animals
Genes Brain and Behavior - 2017
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MicroRNA-335-5p modulates spatial memory and hippocampal synaptic plasticity
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, vol. 139, pp. 63-68 - 2016
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EPBscore: a Novel Method for Computer-Assisted Analysis of Axonal Structure and Dynamics
Neuroinformatics, vol. 14, (no. 1), pp. 121-127 -
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microRNAs Modulate Spatial Memory in the Hippocampus and in the Ventral Striatum in a Region-Specific Manner
Molecular Neurobiology, vol. 53, (no. 7), pp. 4618-4630 -
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Unsupervised mouse behavior analysis: A data-driven study of mice interactions
Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 0, pp. 925-930 - 2015
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Neuronal ensembles sufficient for recovery sleep and the sedative actions of α 2 adrenergic agonists
Nature Neuroscience, vol. 18, (no. 4), pp. 553-561 -
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Phosphorylation of S845 GluA1 AMPA receptors modulates spatial memory and structural plasticity in the ventral striatum
Brain Structure and Function, vol. 220, (no. 5), pp. 2653-2661 - 2014
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Staying awake - a genetic region that hinders α2 adrenergic receptor agonist-induced sleep
European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 40, (no. 1), pp. 2311-2319 - 2013
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Increased axonal bouton dynamics in the aging mouse cortex
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 110, (no. 16) - 2010
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Ventral striatal plasticity and spatial memory
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 107, (no. 17), pp. 7945-7950 - 2007
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Effects of intra-accumbens NMDA and AMPA receptor antagonists on short-term spatial learning in the Morris water maze task
Behavioural Brain Research, vol. 179, (no. 1), pp. 43-49 - 2005
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Co-activation of glutamate and dopamine receptors within the nucleus accumbens is required for spatial memory consolidation in mice
Psychopharmacology, vol. 179, (no. 1), pp. 108-116 - 2003
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Distinct roles of the different ionotropic glutamate receptors within the nucleus accumbens in passive-avoidance learning and memory in mice
European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 18, (no. 8), pp. 2365-2373