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  1. Incubation of social deficit during morphine abstinence in male mice using a novel unbiased and automatized method

    Article • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, October 2025, Frontiers

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  2. Individualistic reward-seeking strategies that predict response to nicotine emerge among isogenic male mice living in a micro-society

    Article • PLoS Biology, October 2024, PLOS

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  3. A systematic review of the development and application of home cage monitoring in laboratory mice and rats

    Article • BMC Biology, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  4. Individual variations in reward-seeking adaptability emerge among isogenic mice living in a micro-society and predict their response to nicotine

    Article • November 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  5. Prolonged nicotine exposure reduces aversion to the drug in mice by altering nicotinic transmission in the interpeduncular nucleus

    Article • eLife, May 2023, eLife

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  6. Prolonged nicotine exposure reduces aversion to the drug in mice by altering nicotinic transmission in the interpeduncular nucleus

    Article • December 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  7. Chronic nicotine increases midbrain dopamine neuron activity and biases individual strategies towards reduced exploration in mice

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  8. Real-time analysis of the behaviour of groups of mice via a depth-sensing camera and machine learning

    Article • Nature Biomedical Engineering, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  9. Shank2 Mutant Mice Display Hyperactivity Insensitive to Methylphenidate and Reduced Flexibility in Social Motivation, but Normal Social Recognition

    Article • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, October 2018, Frontiers

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  10. Social interactions impact on the dopaminergic system and drive individuality

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  11. Live Mouse Tracker: real-time behavioral analysis of groups of mice

    Article • June 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  12. Social interactions impact on the dopaminergic system and drive individuality

    Article • December 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  13. Nicotine enhances alcohol intake and dopaminergic responses through β2* and β4* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  14. The Neural Bases of Disgust for Cheese: An fMRI Study

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, October 2016, Frontiers

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  15. mouseTube – a database to collaboratively unravel mouse ultrasonic communication

    Article • F1000Research, September 2016, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  16. Recording Mouse Ultrasonic Vocalizations to Evaluate Social Communication

    Article • Journal of Visualized Experiments, June 2016, MyJove Corporation

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  17. Nicotinic receptors in the ventral tegmental area promote uncertainty-seeking

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, January 2016, Nature

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  18. Olfactory preference conditioning changes the reward value of reinforced and non-reinforced odors

    Article • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, July 2014, Frontiers

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  19. The Autism ProSAP1/Shank2 mouse model displays quantitative and structural abnormalities in ultrasonic vocalisations

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, November 2013, Elsevier

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  20. Absence of deficits in social behaviors and ultrasonic vocalizations in later generations of mice lacking neuroligin4

    Article • Genes Brain & Behavior, October 2012, Wiley

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  21. Activation of adult-born neurons facilitates learning and memory

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, May 2012, Nature

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  22. Autistic-like behaviours and hyperactivity in mice lacking ProSAP1/Shank2

    Article • Nature, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Andreas Martin Grabrucker, Mr Nicolas Torquet, Dirk Montag

  23. Early Activation of Microglia Triggers Long-Lasting Impairment of Adult Neurogenesis in the Olfactory Bulb

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, March 2012, Society for Neuroscience

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  24. Rational design of central selective acetylcholinesterase inhibitors by means of a “bio-oxidisable prodrug” strategy

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Mr Nicolas Torquet

  25. The reduction in electric footshocks perception interferes with the amnesic effect of scopolamine

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, March 2008, Elsevier

    Mr Nicolas Torquet