Theoretical frameworks and mechanistic aspects of alcohol addiction: alcohol addiction as a reward deficit/stress surfeit disorder

GF Koob, L Vendruscolo - 2023 - Springer
… The thesis herein is that opponent processes begin early in drug taking, reflect changes in
brain reward and stress systems, and later form one of the major motivations for compulsivity …

Clueless about cues: the impact of reward-paired cues on decision making under uncertainty

CA Winstanley, TJ Hynes - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
… of cocaine subsequently exacerbates the subjective or behavioural response to low basal
DA, as would be expected from the opponent process … also self-administered more cocaine. …

Exploring Ketamine's Reinforcement, Cue-Induced Reinstatement, and Nucleus Accumbens cFos Activation in Male and Female Long Evans Rats.

DP Hagarty, A Dawoud, AB Guerrero, K Phillips… - …, 2024 - Elsevier
… male and female rats when self-administered only at the highest two … properties in both
male and female rats in proestrus [33]. This suggests, as shown for other drugs such as cocaine

Membrane excitability of nucleus accumbens neurons gates the incubation of cocaine craving

Y He, J Wang, K Li, YQ Wang, Z Freyberg… - …, 2023 - nature.com
… Briefly, an animal self-administered cocaine at a dose of 0.75 mg/kg per infusion by nose-poking
the active hole, accompanied by the switching-on of a light within the hole that served …

Associative processes in addiction relapse models: A review of their Pavlovian and instrumental mechanisms, history, and terminology

BPP Lay, SYS Khoo - Neuroanatomy and Behaviour, 2021 - psycharchives.org
… a cocaineheroin mixture [87] and Fuchs and colleagues observed ABA but not AAB renewal
of cocaine … reinforcer by pairing it with intravenously self-administered morphine [119]. After …

Individual variations in motives for nicotine self-administration in male rats: evidence in support for a precision psychopharmacology

V Garcia-Rivas, JF Fiancette, J Tostain… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
… hydrogen-tartrate (Glentham, UK) was dissolved in sterile 0.9% physiological saline and
pH adjusted to 7.0 for a final training dose of 0.04 mg/kg free base, which was self-administered

The role of glutamate mGlu5 and adenosine A2a receptor interactions in regulating working memory performance and persistent cocaine seeking in rats

PU Hámor, CM Gobin, M Schwendt - Progress in Neuro …, 2020 - Elsevier
… The current study demonstrates that rats with extended access to self-administered cocaine
display not only an escalation of cocaine taking and later robust cocaine seeking, but also …

Chronic fentanyl self-administration generates a shift toward negative affect in rats during drug use

AN Dao, NJ Beacher, V Mayr, A Montemarano… - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
… Animals self-administered fentanyl in a manner consistent … Those negative calls were
associated with falling cocaine … those of cocaine SA, our findings with both fentanyl and cocaine

A red nucleus–VTA glutamate pathway underlies exercise reward and the therapeutic effect of exercise on cocaine use

Y He, G Madeo, Y Liang, C Zhang, B Hempel, X Liu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
… In the presence of laser stimulation, mice self-administered less cocaine and needed
more time to reach the maximum of 50 infusions of cocaine during daily 3-hour sessions. …

Cocaine-induced neuron subtype mitochondrial dynamics through Egr3 transcriptional regulation

SL Cole, R Chandra, M Harris, I Patel, T Wang, H Kim… - Molecular Brain, 2021 - Springer
… Rats that self-administered cocaine for 10 days (1 mg/kg/infusion) showed similar patterns,
with enhancements in Nrf1, Tfb1, and Tomm20 (see Fig. 2b and Additional file 4). To …