Peer-Reviewed Articles ALGALLAL EH, LAPLANTE I, CASALE D, NAJAFIPASHAKI S, POMERLEAU A, PAQUETTE T, SAMAHA AN. 2025. Activation of Infralimbic cortex neurons projecting to the nucleus accumbens shell suppresses discriminative stimulus-triggered relapse to cocaine seeking in rats. BioRxiv. LECOCQ MR, MAINVILLE-BERTHIAUME A, LAPLANTE I, SAMAHA AN. 2025. Activating Group II Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in the Basolateral Amygdala Inhibits Increases in Reward Seeking Triggered by Discriminative Stimuli in Rats. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Fun Outside of the Lab April, 2025: Sugar shack
October 23, 2016: Tour Mont-Royal Brébeuf race
December, 2015
October 30, 2015: Halloween party
October 4, 2015: The race for life
August 15, 2015: The Color Run
Conferences, Recognition and Awards September 19, 2018 : Ellie-Anna’s thesis defense
June 1, 2018 : Florence’s thesis defense
May 17, 2018: Gabriel L. Plaa day
October, 2015: étudiants-chercheurs étoile’ award The laboratory is featured in the newspaper, Le forum
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology – University of Montréal Pavillon Paul. G Desmarais 2900 Édouard Montpetit, PGD 3253 Montréal, Québec H3T 1J4 Canada
E-mail: anna.samaha@umontreal.ca Tel: 514 343 6111 x. 32788 Fax: 514 343 2291 Twitter
Main Interests Drugs of abuse and animal models of addiction The role of the speed of drug delivery and of the intermittency of drug exposure in addiction Antipsychotic medications Interactions between antipsychotic medications and drugs of abuse Servonnet et al., 2017
Allain al., 2017
Charron, el Hage et al., 2015
El Hage et al., 2015
Bouayad-Gervias, Minogianis et al., 2014
Minogianis et al., 2013
Bédard et al., 2013
Bédard et al.
Training PhD in Psychology (2004) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
M.A. in Psychology (2001) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
B.A. in Psychology (1998) Concordia University , Montréal, Canada
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
National Institute of Health and Medical Research (2004-05) Paris, France
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (2005-08) Toronto, Canada
Affiliations Central Nervous System Research Group (U de M)
Canadian Association for Neuroscience
Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Society for Neuroscience
Who are we? We are a behavioural neuropharmacology laboratory located in the department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Université de Montréal.
What is our mission ? Our overall objective is to characterise the neurobiological bases of learning, motivation and reward. Within this context, we aim to better understand drug addiction and its brain mechanisms.
Why is our work important ? We are working to understand what happens in the brain when we encounter rewards such as water and food, and especially drugs of abuse.
Isabel Laplante - Research Associate
Mandy LeCocq – Postdoc
Hajer Algallal – PhD
Amelie Mainville-Berthiaume – PhD
Coralie Godbout – PhD
Domiziana Casale – Research Associate
Anne-Noël's son - Visiting Student
Anne-Noël's 2nd son - Visiting Student
Alumni Aissatou Ndiaye - PhD
Shaghayegh Najafipashaki – Master's Student
Mike Robinson - Research Associate
Sema Abushamleh - Undergraduate Intern
Shaun Khoo - Postdoc
Laurence Theroux - Master's Student
Caroline Garceau - Masters Student