The transition to compulsion in addiction

C Lüscher, TW Robbins, BJ Everitt - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Compulsion is a cardinal symptom of drug addiction (severe substance use disorder).
However, compulsion is observed in only a small proportion of individuals who repeatedly …

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 …

Liking, wanting, and the incentive-sensitization theory of addiction.

KC Berridge, TE Robinson - American Psychologist, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Rewards are both “liked” and “wanted,” and those 2 words seem almost interchangeable.
However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psychological process of “wanting” a particular …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding addiction using animal models

BN Kuhn, PW Kalivas, AC Bobadilla - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Drug addiction is a neuropsychiatric disorder with grave personal consequences that has an
extraordinary global economic impact. Despite decades of research, the options available to …

Increased number and activity of a lateral subpopulation of hypothalamic orexin/hypocretin neurons underlies the expression of an addicted state in rats

MH James, CM Stopper, BA Zimmer, NE Koll… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background The orexin (hypocretin) system is important for reward-driven motivation but has
not been implicated in the expression of a multiphenotype addicted state. Methods Rats …

[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 …

Incubation of cocaine craving after intermittent-access self-administration: sex differences and estrous cycle

C Nicolas, TI Russell, AF Pierce, S Maldera, A Holley… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Studies using continuous-access drug self-administration showed that cocaine
seeking increases during abstinence (incubation of cocaine craving). Recently, studies …

Dopamine 'ups and downs' in addiction revisited

AN Samaha, SYS Khoo, CR Ferrario… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
Repeated drug use can change dopamine (DA) function in ways that promote the
development and persistence of addiction, but in what direction? By one view, drug use …

Learning to lose control: A process-based account of behavioral addiction

JC Perales, DL King, JF Navas, A Schimmenti… - Neuroscience & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Learning psycho (bio) logy has developed a solid corpus of evidence and theory regarding
behavior control modes. The present article briefly reviews that literature and its influence on …