Cues in the environment associated with drug use draw the attention of addicts, elicit
approach, and motivate drug-seeking and drug-taking behavior, making abstinence difficult …

BACKGROUND: In addicts drug cues attract attention, elicit approach, and motivate drug-
seeking and drug-taking behavior, and addicts find it difficult to resist such cues. In …

Rationale Cues associated with rewards bias attention towards them and can motivate drug-
seeking and drug-taking behavior. There is, however, considerable individual variation in …

Addiction is characterized by a high propensity for relapse, in part because cues associated
with drugs can acquire Pavlovian incentive motivational properties, and acting as incentive …

A progressive increase in the frequency and intensity of drug use is one of the major
behavioural phenomena characterizing the development of addiction. The nature of the drug …

The present study aimed to test the hypothesis that cues associated with drug‐taking
behavior become extra strong motivators of behavior compared with cues paired with non …

There is growing evidence that mere exposure to drugs can induce long-term alterations in
the neural systems that mediate reward processing, motivation, and behavioral control …

Rationale: In animal models of drug self-administration, response rates often decrease with
dose suggesting that a regulative process may mask the reinforcing effects of the drug …

Rationale Taking high and increasing amounts of cocaine is thought to be necessary for the
development of addiction. Consequently, a widely used animal model of drug self …

Animal models of human drug abuse measuring (i) cocaine-seeking behavior maintained by
primary or secondary reinforcers,(ii) the time to extinction of cocaine-seeking behavior, and …