Compulsive drug-taking is associated with habenula–frontal cortex connectivity

Y Duan, PJ Tsai, BJ Salmeron, Y Hu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
As a critical node connecting the forebrain with the midbrain, the lateral habenula (LHb)
processes negative feedback in response to aversive events and plays an essential role in …

From controlled to compulsive drug-taking: The role of the habenula in addiction

V Mathis, PJ Kenny - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Addiction is now recognized as a neurobiological and cognitive brain disorder and is
generally viewed as a switch from recreational or voluntary to compulsive substance use …

[PDF][PDF] Prefrontal-habenular microstructural impairments in human cocaine and heroin addiction

SG King, PO Gaudreault, P Malaker, J Kim, N Alia-Klein… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
The habenula (Hb) is central to adaptive reward-and aversion-driven behaviors, comprising
a hub for higher-order processing networks involving the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Despite an …

[HTML][HTML] A focus on reward prediction and the lateral habenula: functional alterations and the behavioral outcomes induced by drugs of abuse

NM Graziane, PA Neumann, Y Dong - Frontiers in Synaptic …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The lateral habenula (LHb) regulates reward learning and controls the updating of reward-
related information. Drugs of abuse have the capacity to hijack the cellular and neurocircuit …

[HTML][HTML] Lateral habenula involvement in impulsive cocaine seeking

A Zapata, EK Hwang, CR Lupica - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017 - nature.com
The lateral habenula (LHb) is a brain structure receiving inputs from limbic forebrain areas
and innervating major midbrain monoaminergic nuclei. Evidence indicates LHb involvement …

Cocaine-evoked negative symptoms require AMPA receptor trafficking in the lateral habenula

FJ Meye, K Valentinova, S Lecca, L Marion-Poll… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Addictive substances mediate positive and negative states promoting persistent drug use.
However, substrates for aversive effects of drugs remain elusive. We found that, in mouse …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal adaptations in the lateral habenula during drug withdrawal: Preclinical evidence for addiction therapy

JA Clerke, M Congiu, M Mameli - Neuropharmacology, 2021 - Elsevier
The epithalamic lateral habenula (LHb) regulates monoaminergic systems and contributes
to the expression of both appetitive and aversive behaviours. Over the past years, the LHb …

Orbitofrontal, dorsal striatum, and habenula functional connectivity in psychiatric patients with substance use problems

H Oh, J Lee, SN Gosnell, M Patriquin, T Kosten… - Addictive Behaviors, 2020 - Elsevier
Substance abuse is commonly defined as the persistence of drug use despite negative
consequences. Recent preclinical work has shown that higher input from the orbitofrontal …

[HTML][HTML] Interaction between dysfunctional connectivity at rest and heroin cues-induced brain responses in male abstinent heroin-dependent individuals

J Liu, W Qin, K Yuan, J Li, W Wang, Q Li, Y Wang… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background The majority of previous heroin cue-reactivity functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) studies focused on local function impairments, such as inhibitory control …

Medial habenula cholinergic signaling regulates cocaine‐associated relapse‐like behavior

AJ López, Y Jia, AO White, JL Kwapis… - Addiction …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Propensity to relapse, even following long periods of abstinence, is a key feature in
substance use disorders. Relapse and relapse‐like behaviors are known to be induced, in …