Prof. Maurizio Popoli Dynamic dissection of the stress response. Implications for brain illness and development of rapid-acting drugs

Maurizio Popoli is professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan, Italy. His research topics include investigation of the action of behavioral stress at synaptic level. Regulation of synaptic function, neuroplasticity and gene expression with regard to acute/chronic stress, pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric/neurodegenerative disorders, mechanisms of psychotropic drugs. Genome-wide studies of animal models of pathology and response to drugs (transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenetics, miRNomics). Special attention is given to the identification of new targets for diagnosis or treatment that may improve efficacy and alleviate adverse effects.