Mauro Congiu

890 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 545 citations indexed

About

Mauro Congiu is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Mauro Congiu has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 545 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 5 papers in Pharmacology and 5 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Mauro Congiu's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (7 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (6 papers) and Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (5 papers). Mauro Congiu is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (7 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (6 papers) and Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (5 papers). Mauro Congiu collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Italy and France. Mauro Congiu's co-authors include Manuel Mameli, Salvatore Lecca, Claudia Sagheddu, Massimo Trusel, Roberto Frau, Joseph F. Cheer, Valeria Serra, Miriam Melis, Francesco Traccis and Arnaud L. Lalive and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Mauro Congiu

16 papers receiving 544 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Specialized astrocytes mediate glutamatergic gliotransmission in the CNS

2023 141 citations Roberta De Ceglia, Ada Ledonne et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mauro Congiu Switzerland	12	266	147	128	123	91	16	545
Mitra‐Sadat Sadat‐Shirazi Iran	15	245 0.9×	74 0.5×	136 1.1×	103 0.8×	101 1.1×	49	558
Valentina Licheri Italy	12	318 1.2×	61 0.4×	140 1.1×	116 0.9×	37 0.4×	22	520
Vincent Warnault France	12	479 1.8×	97 0.7×	298 2.3×	124 1.0×	116 1.3×	12	848
Tara Teppen United States	16	308 1.2×	91 0.6×	395 3.1×	99 0.8×	103 1.1×	19	743
Miguel Miguéns Spain	19	708 2.7×	292 2.0×	182 1.4×	218 1.8×	58 0.6×	40	875
Caleb J. Browne United States	16	322 1.2×	52 0.4×	249 1.9×	117 1.0×	51 0.6×	32	671
Vera Tsintsadze France	9	310 1.2×	78 0.5×	185 1.4×	229 1.9×	41 0.5×	10	641
Ana Rita Costenla Portugal	12	395 1.5×	61 0.4×	162 1.3×	72 0.6×	59 0.6×	13	815
Michelle M. Sidor United States	13	146 0.5×	110 0.7×	72 0.6×	114 0.9×	24 0.3×	16	655
David N. Linsenbardt United States	16	549 2.1×	85 0.6×	220 1.7×	343 2.8×	65 0.7×	39	900

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Mondoloni, Sarah, Patricia E. Molina, Salvatore Lecca, et al.. (2024). Serotonin release in the habenula during emotional contagion promotes resilience. Science. 385(6713). 1081–1086. 11 indexed citations

Congiu, Mauro, Sarah Mondoloni, Salvatore Lecca, et al.. (2023). Plasticity of neuronal dynamics in the lateral habenula for cue-punishment associative learning. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(12). 5118–5127. 5 indexed citations

Lecca, Salvatore, Mauro Congiu, Leonardo Restivo, et al.. (2023). A neural substrate for negative affect dictates female parental behavior. Neuron. 111(7). 1094–1103.e8. 17 indexed citations

Ceglia, Roberta De, Ada Ledonne, David Litvin, et al.. (2023). Specialized astrocytes mediate glutamatergic gliotransmission in the CNS. Nature. 622(7981). 120–129. 141 indexed citations breakdown →

Requie, Linda Maria, Marta Gómez‐Gonzalo, Francesca Managò, et al.. (2022). Astrocytes mediate long-lasting synaptic regulation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons. Nature Neuroscience. 25(12). 1639–1650. 34 indexed citations

Lalive, Arnaud L., Mauro Congiu, Chris Lewis, et al.. (2022). Synaptic inhibition in the lateral habenula shapes reward anticipation. Current Biology. 32(8). 1829–1836.e4. 16 indexed citations

Congiu, Mauro, Laura Micheli, Claudia Sagheddu, et al.. (2021). N-Acylethanolamine Acid Amidase Inhibition Potentiates Morphine Analgesia and Delays the Development of Tolerance. Neurotherapeutics. 18(4). 2722–2736. 9 indexed citations

Trusel, Massimo, Arnaud L. Lalive, Mauro Congiu, et al.. (2021). Stress undermines reward-guided cognitive performance through synaptic depression in the lateral habenula. Neuron. 109(6). 947–956.e5. 35 indexed citations

Traccis, Francesco, Valeria Serra, Claudia Sagheddu, et al.. (2021). Prenatal THC Does Not Affect Female Mesolimbic Dopaminergic System in Preadolescent Rats. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(4). 1666–1666. 21 indexed citations

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Congiu, Mauro, et al.. (2021). Neuronal adaptations in the lateral habenula during drug withdrawal: Preclinical evidence for addiction therapy. Neuropharmacology. 192. 108617–108617. 12 indexed citations

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Sagheddu, Claudia, Francesco Traccis, Valeria Serra, et al.. (2020). Mesolimbic dopamine dysregulation as a signature of information processing deficits imposed by prenatal THC exposure. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 105. 110128–110128. 25 indexed citations

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Frau, Roberto, Francesco Traccis, Sonia Aroni, et al.. (2019). Prenatal THC exposure produces a hyperdopaminergic phenotype rescued by pregnenolone. Nature Neuroscience. 22(12). 1975–1985. 103 indexed citations

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Trusel, Massimo, Salvatore Lecca, Harumi Harada, et al.. (2019). Punishment-Predictive Cues Guide Avoidance through Potentiation of Hypothalamus-to-Habenula Synapses. Neuron. 102(1). 120–127.e4. 58 indexed citations

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Congiu, Mauro, Massimo Trusel, Marco Pistis, Manuel Mameli, & Salvatore Lecca. (2019). Opposite responses to aversive stimuli in lateral habenula neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience. 50(6). 2921–2930. 25 indexed citations

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Sagheddu, Claudia, María Scherma, Mauro Congiu, et al.. (2018). Inhibition of N-acylethanolamine acid amidase reduces nicotine-induced dopamine activation and reward. Neuropharmacology. 144. 327–336. 22 indexed citations

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Pisu, Maria Giuseppina, Giorgia Boero, Francesca Biggio, et al.. (2017). Juvenile social isolation affects maternal care in rats: involvement of allopregnanolone. Psychopharmacology. 234(17). 2587–2596. 11 indexed citations

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