Circuits and functions of the lateral habenula in health and in disease

H Hu, Y Cui, Y Yang - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed exponentially growing interest in the lateral habenula (LHb)
owing to new discoveries relating to its critical role in regulating negatively motivated …

Dopamine and addiction

RA Wise, MA Robble - Annual review of psychology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Addiction is commonly identified with habitual nonmedical self-administration of drugs. It is
usually defined by characteristics of intoxication or by characteristics of withdrawal …

Drug-induced conditioned place preference and its practical use in substance use disorder research

G McKendrick, NM Graziane - Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm is a well-established model utilized to
study the role of context associations in reward-related behaviors, including both natural …

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 …

Diversity of transgenic mouse models for selective targeting of midbrain dopamine neurons

S Lammel, EE Steinberg, C Földy, NR Wall, K Beier… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine (DA) neurons have been implicated in reward,
aversion, salience, cognition, and several neuropsychiatric disorders. Optogenetic …

Single rodent mesohabenular axons release glutamate and GABA

DH Root, CA Mejias-Aponte, S Zhang, HL Wang… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The lateral habenula (LHb) is involved in reward, aversion, addiction and depression
through descending interactions with several brain structures, including the ventral …

[HTML][HTML] Basal ganglia circuit loops, dopamine and motivation: a review and enquiry

S Ikemoto, C Yang, A Tan - Behavioural brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
Dopamine neurons located in the midbrain play a role in motivation that regulates approach
behavior (approach motivation). In addition, activation and inactivation of dopamine neurons …

A unique population of ventral tegmental area neurons inhibits the lateral habenula to promote reward

AM Stamatakis, JH Jennings, RL Ung, GA Blair… - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
Lateral habenula (LHb) neurons convey aversive and negative reward conditions through
potent indirect inhibition of ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopaminergic neurons. Although …

The emergence of a circuit model for addiction

C Lüscher - Annual review of neuroscience, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Addiction is a disease of altered behavior. Addicts use drugs compulsively and will continue
to do so despite negative consequences. Even after prolonged periods of abstinence …

A multistep general theory of transition to addiction

PV Piazza, V Deroche-Gamonet - Psychopharmacology, 2013 - Springer
Background Several theories propose alternative explanations for drug addiction. Objectives
We propose a general theory of transition to addiction that synthesizes knowledge …