Neural correlates of oxytocin and cue reactivity in cocaine-dependent men and women with and without childhood trauma

JE Joseph, A McRae-Clark, BJ Sherman, NL Baker… - …, 2019 - Springer
Rationale Women with cocaine use disorder have worse treatment outcomes compared with
men. Sex differences in cocaine addiction may be driven by differences in neurobiology or …

Oxytocin enhances the expression of morphine-induced conditioned place preference in rats

M Moaddab, BI Hyland, CH Brown - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2015 - Elsevier
Drug addiction is characterized by drug-seeking and drug-taking and has devastating
consequences on addicts as well as on society. Environmental contexts previously …

Differential regulation of mGlu5R and ΜOPr by priming‐ and cue‐induced reinstatement of cocaine‐seeking behaviour in mice

P Georgiou, P Zanos, M Ehteramyan… - Addiction …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The key problem for the treatment of drug addiction is relapse to drug use after abstinence
that can be triggered by drug‐associated cues, re‐exposure to the drug itself and stress …

Oxycodone self-administration during pregnancy disrupts the maternal-infant dyad and decreases midbrain OPRM1 expression during early postnatal development in …

FM Vassoler, ML Oranges, AM Toorie… - Pharmacology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Opioid use and abuse has reached epidemic levels in the United States. As these drugs are
frequently used by women of reproductive age, there has been a significant increase in the …

Chronic methamphetamine self‐administration dysregulates oxytocin plasma levels and oxytocin receptor fibre density in the nucleus accumbens core and …

SJ Baracz, LM Parker, AS Suraev… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The neuropeptide oxytocin attenuates reward and abuse for the psychostimulant
methamphetamine (METH). Recent findings have implicated the nucleus accumbens (NA c) …

Enhanced upregulation of CRH mRNA expression in the nucleus accumbens of male rats after a second injection of methamphetamine given thirty days later

JL Cadet, C Brannock, B Ladenheim, MT McCoy… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Methamphetamine (METH) is a widely abused amphetamine analog. Few studies have
investigated the molecular effects of METH exposure in adult animals. Herein, we …

Compulsive methamphetamine taking in the presence of punishment is associated with increased oxytocin expression in the nucleus accumbens of rats

IN Krasnova, MC Gerra, D Walther, S Jayanthi… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Methamphetamine addiction is mimicked in rats that self-administer the drug. However,
these self-administration (SA) models do not include adverse consequences that are …

Oxytocin treatment in the prelimbic cortex reduces relapse to methamphetamine-seeking and is associated with reduced activity in the rostral nucleus accumbens core

N Everett, S Baracz, J Cornish - Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 2019 - Elsevier
Addiction to the psychostimulant Methamphetamine (METH) is characterised by high rates of
relapse. Currently there are no approved effective pharmacotherapies for METH …

Effects of oxytocin on methamphetamine-seeking exacerbated by predator odor pre-exposure in rats

CL Ferland, CM Reichel, JF McGinty - Psychopharmacology, 2016 - Springer
Rationale The endogenous oxytocin system has emerged as an inhibitor of drug-seeking
and stress in preclinical models. Objectives The goal of this study was to examine whether …

[PDF][PDF] The role of intranasal oxytocin in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia: a systematic review

D De Berardis, S Marini, F Iasevoli… - CNS Neurol. Disord …, 2013 - researchgate.net
Oxytocin is a nonapeptide mammalian hormone, best known for its role in childbirth,
parturition and lactation. It has been implicated in the control of social behaviors and …