Mr Maxime Fouyssac

Maxime Fouyssac

University position

PhD student
Supervised by Dr David Belin

Departments

Department of Psychology

Institutes

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute

Home page

http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directo...

Research Theme

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

Interests

My research project in David Belin’s lab at the department of Pharmacology and within the BCNI of Cambridge is to characterize the functional contribution of the astrocytes to the development of habitual and compulsive cocaine self-administration in rats.

Research Focus

Keywords

compulsivity

addiction

habit

astrocytes

striatum

Clinical conditions

Addiction

Equipment

Behavioural analysis

Cell culture

Immunohistochemistry

In situ hybridisation

Western Blot