Antonello Bonci

Antonello Bonci (born in Pesaro, Italy) is a neurologist and a neuropsychopharmacologist.

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In 1985, he went to Medical School at the Catholic University of Rome, where he graduated in 1991. In that same year, he started a Residency in Neurology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata that he finished in 1995.

When he left the University of California in San Francisco in 2010, Dr. Bonci was Professor in Residence in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Howard J. Weinberg Endowed Chair in Addiction Research. He is internationally renowned for his studies on the long-term effects of drug exposure on the brain. Dr. Bonci’s laboratory was the first to demonstrate that drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, modify the strength of the connections between neurons. This finding cast a new light on the phenomenon of drug addiction, as a process where maladaptive learning plays a role.

In 2010, he was appointed as the Scientific Director of National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA). He is now also adjunct professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

He has published more than 150 articles in many of the most prestigious scientific journals, such as Cell, Nature, Science, Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, PNAS, just to name a few.