McGill University
Stewart Biological Sciences Building
1205 Dr Penfield Ave
Montreal, Qc, Canada
H3A 1B1
Phone: (514) 398-4916
Fax: (514) 398-4896
Email: asoliman at ego.psych.mcgill.ca
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I was born in Montreal, but most of my life I've lived in Mississauga, Ontario. I did my undergraduate work at University of Toronto. My BSc was in Physical Anthropology and Chemistry - I then decided to do graduate work in clinical psychology, so I returned and did another major in psychology. After I finished all my undergraduate courses, I worked for a year at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. I was a research assistant in the schizophrenia division of the PET Center. Here, we did brain imaging studies of schizophrenia patients, and in particular, looked at a brain chemical called dopamine, which is very important in the symptoms and treatment of schizophrenia. I also coordinated the animal studies looking at drug treatment of schizophrenia - I was the only researcher not to develop a rat allergy!
For my first 2 years of graduate work at McGill, I worked with Terence Coderre researching pain mechanisms. I was examining a particular type of glutamate receptor in the rat spinal cord, as well as dopamine receptors in the rat brain, and how these receptors influence pain and analgesia. I've recently decided to pursue my interest in schizophrenia research, particularly in dopamine brain imaging.
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Awards and Honours:
Sept 2000-April 2001 Teaching Award, McGill University
Sept 1996-May 1998 Specialist in psychology, University of Toronto, High Distinction
Sept 1992-May 1996 Hons BSc from University of Toronto, graduated with Distinction
topSelected Publications:
Soliman A, Coderre TJ (2003) The effects of intrathetically administered mglur agents on capsaicin-induced thermal and mechanical hypersensitivity. (Manuscript in progress)
Soliman A, O'Driscoll G, Pruessner J, Wolff A, Gagnon D, Dagher A (2003) Stress-induced dopamine release in the striatum of humans at risk of schizophrenia: a [11C]-raclopride PET study. Soc.Neurosci Abs.
Soliman A,Coderre TJ (2001) D1 and D2 receptor contributions to capsaicin-induced thermal and mechanical hypersensitivity. Soc.Neurosci Abs. 27, 719.9.
Soliman A, Coderre TJ (2001) NMDA receptor and mGluR contributions to capsaicin-induced thermal and mechanical hypersensitivity. Canadian Pain Society; abstract.
Wadenberg M-L, Soliman A, VanderSpek S, Kapur S (2001) Dopamine D(2) receptor occupancy is a common mechanism underlying animal models of antipsychotics and their clinical effects. Neuropsychopharmacol. 25(5): 633-41, 2001 (see http://www.acnp.org/citations/Npp040901101)
Soliman A, Coderre TJ (2000) The effects of intrathecally administered mGluR agents on capsaicin-induced thermal and mechanical hypersensitivity. Soc.Neurosci Abs. 26, 821.4.
Wadenberg M-L, Kapur S, Soliman A, Jones C, and Vaccarino F (2000) Dopamine D2 receptor occupancy predicts catalepsy and the suppression of conditioned avoidance response behavior in rats. Psychopharmacol. 150:422-9.
Soliman, A C. (1998) The relative contribution of internal and external features to the recognition of famous and unfamiliar faces (4th year honours thesis)
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