page_title: Marisa Roberto
section_title: Career and research
hierarchical_section_title: Marisa Roberto / Career and research
caption_attribution_description: 500px provided description: If you like my pictures please support me buying a print from my shop www.pixael.com/en/pictures thanks! You can follow me on www.facebook.com/giuseppemilophoto twitter.com/pixael_com instagram.com/pixael/ [#trees ,#sky ,#landscape ,#mountains ,#nature ,#travel ,#sun ,#light ,#clouds ,#europe ,#italy ,#outdoor ,#grass ,#photo ,#fuji ,#countryside ,#italia ,#cliff ,#photography ,#hills ,#toscana ,#tuscany ,#fujifilm ,#volterra ,#geotagged ,#xt10 ,#fujix ,#fuji 18mm ,#fujixt10 ,#fuji xt10 ,#fuji 18]
context_page_description: Marisa Roberto is an Italian-American neuroscientist and professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine and Neuroscience at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. Roberto is recognized for her contributions to the understanding of alcohol addiction, specifically for her research on the effects of alcohol and neuromodulators on synaptic transmission in the central amygdala, a critical addiction-related brain region.
context_section_description: In 2005, Roberto became an assistant professor in the Molecular and Integrative Neuroscience Department at the Scripps Research Institute and then the Committee on Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders in 2006. Roberto's research demonstrated the role of pro- and anti-stress neuropeptidergic (e.g. corticotropin-releasing factor, nociceptin, and neuropeptide Y) signaling on GABAergic transmission in the central amygdala following excessive drinking and alcohol dependence.
  In 2015, Roberto was promoted to a tenured professor position and became an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego.  In 2016, Roberto received a merit award from the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study the effects of the brain stress peptide, corticotropin-releasing factor and endocannabinoids, on stress-induced alcohol seeking and anxiety-like behaviors in Alcohol Preferring msP rats - to assess gene-environment interactions.
  Roberto is the scientific director of the Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (INIA) Neuroimmune consortium, the scientific director of The Scripps Research Institute's Alcohol Research Institute, and a researcher in The Pearson Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research. She serves as a senior editor on the editorial board for Neuropharmaology since 2016 and organizes the triennial international meeting on 'Alcoholism and Stress: A Framework for Future Treatment Strategies' in her hometown Volterra, Italy (2008, 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2020).
caption: Volterra, Italy
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "240", "Image YResolution": "240", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image ExifOffset": "90", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1200", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "675"}