Opiate Sensitivity in Fruit Flies

N Karnib, B Long, M van Staaden, JE Sprague… - Medical Research …, 2023 - osti.gov
Substance use disorder is a debilitating clinical condition in which behavioral dependence
results from biological, environmental, genetic, and psychosocial factors. An epidemic …

Synthetic cathinones and their phenethylamine analogues produce distinct psychomotor and reward behavior in crayfish

S Gore, MJ van Staaden, JE Sprague… - Behavioural Brain …, 2020 - Elsevier
Synthetic cathinones share potent sympathomimetic properties with amphetamines due to
their shared phenethylamine backbone. Despite recent work focused on understanding the …

The phylogenetic roots of addiction: compulsive drug seeking, natural and drug-sensitive reward, and the acquisition of learned habits

R Huber, DA Jacobson - Brain Behavior and Evolution, 2021 - karger.com
Our rational faculties permit us humans to maximize the utility of our actions. We perform a
fundamental type of cost-benefit analysis in which we frame a problem, assign values to the …