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Prof. Anne-Noël Samaha is a Full Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Medicine. She is the Director of the Samaha Lab and a member of the Groupe de Recherche sur le Système Nerveux Central (GRSNC) and the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur le cerveau et l'apprentissage (CIRCA). Her research focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying addiction, particularly the role of pharmacokinetics and antipsychotic drugs on reward systems and compulsive drug use.
Education: PhD in Biopsychology (University of Michigan, 2004), postdoctoral training at INSERM (Paris) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto).
Research Interests: Neurobiology of addiction, mesocorticolimbic system, drug self-administration models, dopamine regulation, and the impact of drug delivery speed/access patterns on addiction risk.
Grants & Projects: Recipient of multiple grants from institutions such as IRSC, CRSNG, and FRQS. Key projects include modeling cue-triggered relapse, studying amygdala circuitry’s role in reward response, and investigating how rapid drug delivery promotes compulsive use.
Awards: Senior Researcher Scholarship (FRQS, 2018–2022), Junior 2 Researcher Scholarship (FRQS, 2014–2018).
Labs & Teams: Directs the Samaha Lab, which explores how brain circuits mediate addiction behaviors, with a focus on preclinical models of drug-seeking and relapse.