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Aug 03, 1966 Pesaro, Marche, Italy 57 years old
American neurologist
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About Antonello Bonci
- Antonello Bonci (born in Pesaro, Italy) is a neurologist and a neuropsychopharmacologist. 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, 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 known 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).
- Bonci resigned from this position in August 2019 following an internal sexual misconduct investigation.
- He is now the President of the Global institutes on Addictions.
