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José Manuel Lerma Cabrera

Associate Professor and researcher

Universidad Autonoma de Chile

Santiago de Chile, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Line of study is the understanding of how neuropeptides of nutrition can regulate alcohol consumption. Moreover, we study how adolescent binge-like alcohol exposure alters neuropeptides systems and the effects of these changes in alcohol consumption

Educación

  •  Psychology, Universidad de Almería. España, 2006
  •  Salud Mental: Genética y ambiente, UNIVERSIDAD DE ALMERIA. España, 2008
  •  Psychology, UNIVERSIDAD DE ALMERIA. Chile, 2012

Experiencia Académica

  •   PhD student Full Time

    Universidad de Almería

    Psychology

    Almería, España

    2007 - 2012

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE CHILE

    Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

    Santiago de Chile, Chile

    2013 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Actually, I am coordinator of Master in Neuroscience at Universidad Autónoma de Chile (UA). This programs are currently teaching and support more than 20 students. Also, I participe in "Select Topics in investigation" course helds in PhD program in Biomedical Science at UA.



 

Article (10)

Binge-like consumption of caloric and non-caloric palatable substances in ad libitum-fed C57BL/6J mice: Pharmacological and molecular evidence of orexin involvement

Alcaráz-Iborra, M; Carvajal F.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Valor, L.M.; Cubero I.

Article ISI SCOPUS
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH  (2014)

Effects of a single high dose of Chlorpyrifos in long-term feeding, ethanol consumption and ethanol preference in male Wistar rats with a previous history of continued ethanol drinking

Carvajal F.; Sanchez-Amate, M.C.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Cubero I.

Article ISI
JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES  (2014)

Polymorphism in the corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 (CRF1-R) gene plays a role in shaping the high anxious phenotype of Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring (msP) rats

Cippitelli, A.; Ayanwuyi, LO.; Barbier E.; Domi, E.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Carvajal F.; Scuppa, G.; Li H.; Ubaldi, M.; Heilig, M; et al.

Article ISI
PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY  (2014)

Adolescent binge-like ethanol exposure reduces basal α-MSH expression in the hypothalamus and the amygdala of adult rats

Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Carvajal F.; Alcaráz-Iborra, M; de la Fuente L.; Navarro M.; Thiele, T.E.; Cubero I.

Article ISI
Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior  (2013)

MC4-R signaling within the nucleus accumbens shell, but not the lateral hypothalamus, modulates ethanol palatability in rats.

Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Carvajal F.; Chotro, G.; Gaztañaga, M.; Navarro M.; Thiele, T.E.; Cubero I.

Article ISI
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH  (2013)

Role of a genetic polymorphism in the corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 gene in alcohol drinking and seeking behaviors of marchigian sardinian alcohol-preferring rats.

Carvajal F.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Domi, E.; Bjork, K.; Ubaldi, M.; Heilig, M; Roberto, M; Ciccocioppo, R.; Cippitelli, A.

Article ISI
Frontiers in Psychiatry  (2013)

Control of food intake by MC4-R signaling in the lateral hypothalamus, nucleus accumbens shell and ventral tegmental area: interactions with ethanol

Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Carvajal F.; De La Torre L.; de la Fuente L.; Navarro M.; Thiele, T.E.; Cubero I.

Article ISI
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH  (2012)

Neuropeptide Y signaling modulates the expression of ethanol-induced behavioral sensitization in mice.

Hayes, D.M.; Fee, J.R.; McCown, T.J.; Breese, G.R.; Cubero I.; Carvajal F.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Navarro M.; Thiele, T.E.

Article ISI
ADDICTION BIOLOGY  (2012)

Assessment of voluntary ethanol consumption and the effects of a melanocortin (MC) receptor agonist on ethanol intake in mutant C57BL/6J mice lacking the MC-4 receptor.

Navarro M.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Carvajal F.; Lowery, E.G.; Cubero I.; Thiele, T.E.

Article ISI
Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research  (2011)

Ethanol-induced increase of agouti-related protein (AgRP) immunoreactivity in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus of C57BL/6J, but not 129/SvJ, inbred mice.

Cubero I.; Navarro M.; Carvajal F.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Thiele, T.E.

Article ISI
Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research  (2010)

BookWhole (1)

Implicación de las Melanocortinas cerebrales en la modulaci{on del consumo voluntario de alcohol en modelos animales que exhiben diferentes tasas espontáneas de ingesta

Lerma-Cabrera José Manuel

BookWhole
 (2012)

Monograph (2)

Alcohol consumption among adolescents: implications for public health

Carvajal F.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Claborn, D.

Monograph
 (2014)

Interaction between exposure to neurotoxicants and drug abuse.

Carvajal F.; Sanchez-Amate, M.C.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Cubero I.; Oosthuizen, J.

Monograph
 (2012)

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Maria Carvajal

Associate professor

Psychology

Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Santiago de Chile, Chile

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José Lerma

Associate Professor and researcher

Department of Psychology

Universidad Autonoma de Chile

Santiago de Chile, Chile