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Alessia Santor
Visiting Student (2017)

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Contact: alessia.santori@uniroma1.it
Research. ​​​My research is focused on the interaction between stress hormones and the endocannabinoid system, evaluating its impact on emotional memory. During my research period at Dr. Matthew Hill’s lab (2017), I examined how circadian rhythm, stress intensity and sex differences influence endocannabinoid modulation of emotional memory. Currently, I am investigating whether endocannabinoids differentially regulate fear memory retrieval depending on the environment-associated emotional arousal and if any alteration of the hippocampus-basolateral amygdala functional connectivity interfere in their modulation of memory. To this aim, I am using a wide range of techniques, such as pharmacology, optogenetics, immunohistochemistry and behavioural tests.
​Hobbies. ​​​In my spare time, I love taking pictures, hiking, watching TV shows and having happy hours with friends.​​
Favourite paper. ​Favourite paper: “Creating a false memory in the hippocampus.” (Ramirez et al., 2013). Is there anything else in the reality that is more similar to Inception by Christopher Nolan?
Publications
List of publications​
Education
​​I completed my MSc in Medicinal Chemistry (2017) from Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). My enthusiasm for cognitive neuroscience grew in Prof. Patrizia Campolongo’s lab, where I first approached to the cannabinoid field. In 2018, I joined Prof. Ryan LaLumiere’s lab (University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA) for a research period abroad.
Research funded by Brain Canada, BONF, CFI, CIHR, NIH and NSERC. Many thanks to the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Mathison Centre, and Alberta Children's Hospital for their support.
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