Nonspecific blockade of opioid receptors has been found to prevent development of
behavioral sensitization to ethanol. Whether this effect is achieved through a specific opioid …

Associations formed between conditioned stimuli and drug reward are major contributors in
human drug addiction. To better understand the brain changes that accompany this process …

Dopaminergic neurons of the ventral tegmental area are implicated in the physiology of
reward, and long-lasting changes in their function induced by exposure to psychostimulant …

To examine the role of incentive sensitization in the potentiation of salt appetite by prior
depletions, the authors assessed the motivation to obtain salt (" wanting") and the …

Following the original description of the cardinal motor features of Parkinson's disease
described by Parkinson in England in 1817, 50 years passed before Charcot in France …

Drug abuse during adolescence may predispose towards later adult substance abuse and
major depressive disorders (Brook et al., 2002). The purpose of the present study was to …

The medium spiny neurons (MSNs) of the nucleus accumbens function in a critical regard to
examine and integrate information in the processing of rewarding behaviors. These neurons …

Die Rückfallraten sind bei alkoholabhängigen Patienten auch nach Abklingen der
körperlichen Entzugssymptome mit ca. 85% sehr hoch, wenn der Entgiftung keine …

A history of sodium depletions has been found to potentiate the psychomotor as well as the
rewarding effects of amphetamine, an indirect dopamine agonist. The present experiments …

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is involved in the processing and retrieval of reward-
related information. Here, we investigated long-lasting changes in protein composition of the …