Andrea Luppi

Dec 2, 2024 | mdpi.com | Marta Xavier |Patrícia Figueiredo |Gustavo Deco |Andrea Luppi

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Apr 7, 2024 | nature.com | Andrea Luppi

The combination of general anaesthesia and neuroimaging holds unique potential for catalysing integrative and translational discovery about human brains and consciousness. By spanning molecular, cognitive and clinical neuroscience, anaesthesia provides a bridge from molecules to mind across species.

Jun 14, 2023 | science.org | Ana B. Lao-Rodríguez |Elizabeth Bowman |Michael Fox |Andrea Luppi

DISCUSSIONHere, we characterized how mind-altering pharmacological agents engage the brain’s rich neurotransmitter landscape to exert their effects on brain function. We developed a computational framework to relate the regional reorganization of fMRI FC induced by 10 different mind-altering drugs, and the cortical distribution of 19 neurotransmitter receptors and transporters obtained from PET (23).