Education

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Undergraduate

2000-2004
BS, Biology
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Honors thesis: One-trial tolerance to midazolam and antinociception in rats submitted to the elevated plus-maze test
Mentor: Marcus L. Brandao

 

Graduate

2000-2006
BS, Biology Education
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

2004-2006
MS, Psychobiology
Department of Psychology, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Thesis: Serotonergic modulation of exploratory behavior in rats submitted to test and retest in the elevated plus-maze
Mentor: Marcus L. Brandao

2006-2010
PhD, Psychobiology
Department of Psychology, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dissertation: Hormonal, cognitive and neuroanatomical factors associated with the exploratory behavior of rats submitted to test and retest in the elevated plus maze
Mentor: Marcus L. Brandao

 

Post-Doctoral Fellowships

2011-2012
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Psychology, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Research project: The role of dopaminergic mechanisms in the nucleus accumbens on the expression of conditioned fear in rats
Mentor: Marcus L. Brandao

2013-2015
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Boston-MA
Research project: Evaluation of ventral tegmental area CRF mechanisms in stress-induced escalation of cocaine and alcohol intake in rodents. Mentor: Klaus A. Miczek
Lucas Albrechet-Souza, PhD

2018-2018
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Physiology, LSUHSC, New Orleans-LA
Research project: The role of BLA interneurons and endocannabinoid signaling in mediating post-stress escalation of alcohol drinking in rats
Mentor: Nicholas W. Gilpin

 

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Albrechet-Souza L, Schratz CL, Gilpin NW. Sex differences in traumatic stress reactivity in rats with and without a history of alcohol drinking. Biology of Sex Differences 11: 27, 2020.

Albrechet-Souza L, Gilpin NW. The predator odor avoidance model of post-traumatic stress disorder in rats. Behavioural Pharmacology 30: 105-14, 2019.

Albrechet-Souza L, Viola TW, Grassi-Oliveira R, Miczek KA, De Almeida RMM. Corticotropin releasing factor in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in socially defeated and non-stressed mice with a history of chronic alcohol intake. Frontiers in Pharmacology 8: 762, 2017.

Albrechet-Souza L, Hwa LS, Han X, Zhang EY, DeBold JF, Miczek KA. Corticotropin releasing factor binding protein and CRF 2 receptors in the ventral tegmental area: Modulation of ethanol binge drinking in C57BL/6J mice. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research 39: 1609-18, 2015.