Laura-Joy BOULOS
Faculty of Humanities (FLSH)()
maître de conférence - PhD
(+961) 1 421 000 ext laura-joy.boulos1@usj.edu.lb
Dr. Laura-Joy Boulos is an R&D consultant in the digital industry in Paris and an associate professor at Saint-Jospeh University (Beirut). She has a double PhD in neuroscience from Unistra (France) and McGill (Canada). She has recently obtained the 2020 l’Oréal-UNESCO for women in science award. Her research focuses on the impact of post-conflict crises on the brain beyond disease, with a focus on cognitive alterations in apparently healthy individuals from highly at risk populations. She published in several peer-reviewed journals and has cofounded with Alexande a mobile application called i-decide. She has also co-founded the NeuroSymposium in Canada, a platform that centralizes interdisciplinary and intersectoral work around the brain.
Her most recent project is a platform called Sci-dip that aims at making academic research in the health sector available to everyone, namely to worried patients.
Expertise field
• Medecine and HealthResearch topics
The impact of post-conflict crises on the brain beyond disease, with a focus on cognitive alterations in apparently healthy individuals from highly at risk populationsKeywords
+ Publications and communications
Boulos LJ, Mendes A, Delmas A, Chraibi I, Iterative methodology applied to digital health, in revision
Abdallah Y, Nakhle C, Boulos LJ, Neuroscience in the Middle East: The impact of multiple post-war crises on the brain beyond disease, in revision
Boulos LJ, Ben Hamida S, Darcq E, Kieffer BL, TouchSreen-based phenotyping: altered stimulus/reward association and lower perseveration to gain a reward in mu opioid receptor knockout mice, Scientific Reports 2019 February 2019 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-40622-6
Boulos LJ, Ben Hamida S, Bailly J, Maitra M, Ehrlich AT, Gavériaux C, Darcq E, Kieffer BL, Mu opioid receptors in the medial habenula contribute to naloxone aversion, NeuroPsychoPharmacology, 2019 Apr 20. doi: 10.1038/s41386-019-0395-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-019-0395-7
Ben Hamida S, Netto S, Arefin TM, Boulos LJ, McNicholas M, Ehrlich AT, Moquin L, Gratton A, Darcq E, Harsan LA, Maldonado R and Kieffer BL, Increased alcohol seeking in mice lacking Gpr88 involves dysfunctional mesocorticolimbic networks, Biol Psychiatry, 2018 Feb 9. pii: S0006-3223(18)30081-7. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.01.026. https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(18)30081-7/fulltext
Boulos LJ* Ben Hamida S*, McNicholas M, Charbogne P, Kieffer BL, Mu opioid receptors in GABAergic neurons of the forebrain promote alcohol reward and drinking, Addict Biol. 2017 Nov 2. doi: 10.1111/adb.1257 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/adb.12576
Boulos LJ, Darcq E, Kieffer BL, Translating the habenula: from rodents to humans, Biol Psychiatry. 2016 Jun 7. pii: S0006-3223(16)32430-1. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.06.003. https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(16)32430-1/fulltext Boulos LJ, Darcq E, Gavériaux C, Kieffer BL,
Mu opioid receptors in the habenula : dissecting reward and aversion in addiction, SFN 2016 http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/index.html#!/4071/presentation/9287
+ Useful links
+ Teaching Unit
- Introduction to neuroscience
+ Awards and Recognition
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