Improving translation of animal models of addiction and relapse by reverse translation

M Venniro, ML Banks, M Heilig, DH Epstein… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Critical features of human addiction are increasingly being incorporated into complementary
animal models, including escalation of drug intake, punished drug seeking and taking …

Animal models of drug relapse and craving after voluntary abstinence: a review

I Fredriksson, M Venniro, DJ Reiner, JJ Chow… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - ASPET
Relapse to drug use during abstinence is a defining feature of addiction. During the last
several decades, this clinical scenario has been studied at the preclinical level using classic …

Volitional social interaction prevents drug addiction in rat models

M Venniro, M Zhang, D Caprioli, JK Hoots… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Addiction treatment has not been appreciably improved by neuroscientific research. One
problem is that mechanistic studies using rodent models do not incorporate volitional social …

Animal models of drug relapse and craving: from drug priming-induced reinstatement to incubation of craving after voluntary abstinence

M Venniro, D Caprioli, Y Shaham - Progress in brain research, 2016 - Elsevier
High rates of relapse to drug use during abstinence is a defining feature of drug addiction. In
abstinent drug users, drug relapse is often precipitated by acute exposure to the self …

[HTML][HTML] Dopamine circuit mechanisms of addiction-like behaviors

CL Poisson, L Engel, BT Saunders - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Addiction is a complex disease that impacts millions of people around the world. Clinically,
addiction is formalized as substance use disorder (SUD), with three primary symptom …

[PDF][PDF] The anterior insular cortex→ central amygdala glutamatergic pathway is critical to relapse after contingency management

M Venniro, D Caprioli, M Zhang, LR Whitaker, S Zhang… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Despite decades of research on neurobiological mechanisms of psychostimulant addiction,
the only effective treatment for many addicts is contingency management, a behavioral …

Operant social reward decreases incubation of heroin craving in male and female rats

M Venniro, TI Russell, M Zhang, Y Shaham - Biological psychiatry, 2019 - Elsevier
Background We recently reported that operant social choice–induced voluntary abstinence
prevents incubation of methamphetamine craving. Here, we determined whether social …

Role of dorsomedial striatum neuronal ensembles in incubation of methamphetamine craving after voluntary abstinence

D Caprioli, M Venniro, M Zhang… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
We recently developed a rat model of incubation of methamphetamine craving after choice-
based voluntary abstinence. Here, we studied the role of dorsolateral striatum (DLS) and …

[HTML][HTML] Incubation of methamphetamine but not heroin craving after voluntary abstinence in male and female rats

M Venniro, M Zhang, Y Shaham… - …, 2017 - nature.com
We recently introduced an animal model of incubation of methamphetamine craving after
choice-based voluntary abstinence in male rats. Here we studied the generality of this …

In search of predictive endophenotypes in addiction: insights from preclinical research

D Belin, A Belin‐Rauscent, BJ Everitt… - Genes, Brain and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Drug addiction is widely recognized to afflict some but not all individuals by virtue of
underlying risk markers and traits involving multifaceted interactions between polygenic and …