Publications by Alina Veronika Irene Strasser

Glutathione in the nucleus accumbens regulates motivation to exert reward-incentivized effort

Pascal Steiner, Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Lijing Xin, Olivia Zanoletti, Fiona Hollis, Alina Veronika Irene Strasser, Ioannis Zalachoras, Simone Astori, João Pedro de Matos Rodrigues, Eva Ramos Fernandez

Emerging evidence is implicating mitochondrial function and metabolism in the nucleus accumbens in motivated performance. However, the brain is vulnerable to excessive oxidative insults resulting from neurometabolic processes, and whether antioxidant level ...

2022

Glutamine-to-glutamate ratio in the nucleus accumbens predicts effort-based motivated performance in humans

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Rolf Gruetter, Gediminas Luksys, Lijing Xin, Alina Veronika Irene Strasser

Substantial evidence implicates the nucleus accumbens in motivated performance, but very little is known about the neurochemical underpinnings of individual differences in motivation. Here, we applied 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) at ultra-hi ...

2020

Nucleus accumbens neurochemistry in human anxiety: A 7 T 1H-MRS study

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Rolf Gruetter, Lijing Xin, Alina Veronika Irene Strasser

Individual differences in anxiety provide a differential predisposition to develop neuropsychiatric disorders. The neurochemical underpinnings of anxiety remain elusive, particularly in deep structures, such as the nucleus accumbens (NAc) whose involvement ...

2019

Trait anxiety on effort allocation to monetary incentives: a behavioral and high-density EEG study

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Alina Veronika Irene Strasser, João Pedro de Matos Rodrigues

Trait anxiety is an important phenotype in the prediction of stress-induced neuropsychiatric disorders. While the role of trait anxiety in mental effort and cognitive impairment is well documented, much less is known about its influence on motivated behavi ...

2019

In vivo neurochemistry of the ventral striatum and social competition in Homo sapiens

Alina Veronika Irene Strasser

Ventral striatal function and trait anxiety have been shown to influence reward-seeking behaviour and social competition in humans. Moreover, social status perceptions have been shown to modulate ventral striatal function. The neurochemical underpinnings o ...

EPFL2017