Maria Giuseppa Rope
Professor
Department of Life Sciences and the Environment
University of Cagliari
Italy
Biography
Maria G. Corda graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of Cagliari in 1976. In the following years she has been researcher in biochemistry neuropsychopharmacology at first as a fellow of the National Research Council (1978-1980) and from January 1981 to December 1983 as a Visiting Scientist at the Laboratory of Preclinical Pharmacology (NIMH - NIH, USA, led by Prof. Erminio Costa). Since 1981 he has been teaching and neuro-pharmacological research at the University of Cagliari, first (1981-1988) as Researcher at the Faculty of Science MM.FF.NN. and subsequently as Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Pharmacy. His research activity is aimed at clarifying the behavioral and neurochemical effects of psychotropic drugs in animal models of psychiatric disorders.
Research Interest
HPLC, cerebral microdialysis, enzymatic and receptor binding and gene expression assays by in situ hybridization.
Publications
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Piras G., Lecca D., MG Rope and Giorgi O. Repeated morphine injections induce behavioral sensitization in Roman high-, but not in Roman low-avoidance rats. Neuroreport 14: 2483-2488, 2003.
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Giorgi O., Lecca D., Piras G., Driscoll P. and Corda MG Dissociation between mesocortical dopamine release and fear-related behaviors in two psychogenetically selected lines of rats that differ in coping strategies to aversive conditions. Eur. J. Neurosci. 17: 2716-2726, 2003.
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Giorgi O., Piras G., Lecca D., Hansson S., Driscoll P. and Corda MG Differential neurochemical properties of central serotonergic transmission in Roman high- and low-avoidance rats. J Neurochem. 86: 422-431, 2003.
