User profiles for M. Melis

Miriam Melis, PhD

- Verified email at unica.it - Cited by 7952

Maurizio Melis

- Verified email at aob.it - Cited by 2903

Marco Melis

- Verified email at unica.it - Cited by 1052

The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test: Systematic review of psychometric properties and a validation study in Italy

M Vellante, S Baron-Cohen, M Melis… - Cognitive …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction. The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test (henceforth, Eyes test) is a simple but
advanced Theory of Mind test, and it is widely used across different cultures. This study …

Dopamine and sexual behavior

MR Melis, A Argiolas - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 1995 - Elsevier
Among central neurotransmitters involved in the control of sexual behavior, dopamine is
certainly one of the most extensively studied. Our attempt to review old and recent …

The dopamine hypothesis of drug addiction: hypodopaminergic state

M Melis, S Spiga, M Diana - Int Rev Neurobiol, 2005 - books.google.com
… activity-dependent manner, which depresses glutamatergic aVerents on mesolimbic DA
cells (Melis et al., 2004a) and ultimately their own firing activity and pattern (Melis et al., 2004b). …

[PDF][PDF] Genome-wide analyses identify KIF5A as a novel ALS gene

…, V Piras, S Tranquilli, S Cuccu, D Corongiu, M Melis… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
To identify novel genes associated with ALS, we undertook two lines of investigation. We
carried out a genome-wide association study comparing 20,806 ALS cases and 59,804 controls…

Source, occurrence and fate of antibiotics in the Italian aquatic environment

E Zuccato, S Castiglioni, R Bagnati, M Melis… - Journal of hazardous …, 2010 - Elsevier
Aim of this study was to provide an up-to-date assessment of the antibiotics contaminating
the aqueous environment in Italy, for a better understanding of risks for the ecosystem and …

Endocannabinoids mediate presynaptic inhibition of glutamatergic transmission in rat ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons through activation of CB1 receptors

M Melis, M Pistis, S Perra, AL Muntoni… - Journal of …, 2004 - Soc Neuroscience
The endogenous cannabinoid system has been shown to play a crucial role in controlling
neuronal excitability and synaptic transmission. In this study we investigated the effects of a …

[HTML][HTML] Deletion of the dystrophin muscle-promoter region associated with X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy

…, C Cianchetti, G Realdi, A Cao, MA Melis - … England Journal of …, 1993 - Mass Medical Soc
Several forms of hereditary dilated cardiomyopathy have been identified; with the exception
of those resulting from mutations of mitochondrial DNA, 1 , 2 no pathological finding can be …

[HTML][HTML] Overexpression of the cytokine BAFF and autoimmunity risk

…, JH Marcus, M Congia, A Angius, M Melis… - … England Journal of …, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Genomewide association studies of autoimmune diseases have mapped hundreds
of susceptibility regions in the genome. However, only for a few association signals has …

Why do adversarial attacks transfer? explaining transferability of evasion and poisoning attacks

A Demontis, M Melis, M Pintor, M Jagielski… - 28th USENIX security …, 2019 - usenix.org
Transferability captures the ability of an attack against a machine-learning model to be effective
against a different, potentially unknown, model. Empirical evidence for transferability has …

Cannabinoids activate mesolimbic dopamine neurons by an action on cannabinoid CB1 receptors

GL Gessa, M Melis, AL Muntoni, M Diana - European journal of …, 1998 - Elsevier
The present study was designed to determine if cannabinoids share with other drugs of abuse
the ability to stimulate mesolimbic dopaminergic neurons and if this effect is mediated by …