Enrico Alleva Dirigente di ricerca (full professorship level) in "Biology of behaviour", Head, Section of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, ISS (National Institute of Health), Rome. Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Field of interest: hormonal regulations of social behaviour of mammals and birds. Editorial board: Annali dell Istituto Superiore di Sanit (Editor in chief); Neurotoxicology, Ethology, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, Genes, Brain and behavior. Recipient of 27 international and national grants.
E. Alleva, A. Fasolo, H. P. Lipp, L. Nadel and L. Ricceri (Eds.) Behavioural brain research in naturalistic and semi-naturalistic settings: possibilities and perspectives Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (The Netherlands), 466 (1995)
R. Levi-Montalcini, L. Aloe and E. Alleva A role for nerve growth factor in nervous, endocrine and immune systems Progress in NeuroEndocrinImmunology 3, 1 (1990).
M. g. Spillantini, L. Aloe, E. Alleva, R. De Simone, M. Goedert and R. Levi-Montalcini Nerve growth factor mRNA and protein increase in hypothalamus in a mouse model of aggression Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 86, 8555 (1989).
P. Fortuna e E. Alleva Analisi dei metodi di controllo delle popolazioni urbane di storno (Sturnus vulgaris) Acta Medica Veterinaria 40, 43 (1994)
C. Carere and E. Alleva Sex differences in parental care in the common swift (Apus apus): effect of brood size and nestling age Canadian Journal of Zoology 76, 1382 (1998).
Daniela Santucci co-ordinator of the ISS node, is a research associate, Behavioural neurosciences Section, Dept of Cellular Biology and Neurosciences. Major field of interest: animal models of cognitive and psychiatric disorder, effects of psychotropic drugs and growth factor on neurobehaioural development of rodents, with particular regard to the ontogeny of behaviour and social behaviour. She has been coordinator and principal investigator of two national research projects; is expert advisor for the Ministry of Health on the issue of Ethics and methodology of Animal experimentation in Neuroscience and Behavioural Research, and export evaluator for the EC (FP6).
D. Santucci, M. Puopolo, E. Alleva Neonatal behaviors associated with ultrasonic vocalizations in mice (mus musculus): A slow-motion analysis Dev. Psychobiol. 44, 37 (2004)
E. Alleva, D. Santucci Psychosocial vs. "physical" stress situations in rodents and humans: role of neurotrophins Physiol. Behav. 73, 313 (2001)
M. Puopolo, D. Santucci, F. Chiarotti, E. Alleva Behavioural effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on laboratory rodents: statistical methodologies and an application concerning developmental PCB exposureChemosphere 39, 1259 (1999)
E. Alleva, J. Rankin, D. Santucci Methodological analysis in behavioral toxicology: an ethotoxicological approach Toxicol. Ind. Health 14, 325 (1998)
