Food reward in the obese and after weight loss induced by calorie restriction and bariatric surgery

HR Berthoud, H Zheng, AC Shin - … of the New York Academy of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Increased availability of tasty, energy‐dense foods has been blamed as a major factor in the
alarmingly high prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and metabolic disease, even in young age …

Activation of PKCzeta and PKMzeta in the nucleus accumbens core is necessary for the retrieval, consolidation and reconsolidation of drug memory

JA Crespo, P Stöckl, F Ueberall, M Jenny, A Saria… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
One of the greatest challenges in the treatment of substance dependence is to reverse the
control that drug-associated stimuli have gained over the addict's behavior, as these drug …

Indices of extinction-induced “depression” after operant learning using a runway vs. a cued free-reward delivery schedule

B Topic, I Kröger, PG Vildirasova, JP Huston - Neurobiology of learning and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Loss of reward is one of the etiological factors leading to affective disorders, such as major
depression. We have proposed several variants of an animal model of depression based on …

Weakening of negative relative to positive associations with cocaine-paired cues contributes to cue-induced responding after drug removal

ZI Su, G Kichaev, J Wenzel, O Ben-Shahar… - Pharmacology …, 2012 - Elsevier
Cocaine has been shown to have initial positive (euphoric) and delayed negative
(anxiogenic) effects in both humans and animals. Cocaine-paired cues are consequently …

Neuronal Mechanisms Mediating Acute Food Deprivation-Induced Reinstatement of Heroin Seeking

S Tobin - 2012 - spectrum.library.concordia.ca
One of the most troubling aspects of addiction is the chronic and cyclical nature of this
disorder. In particular, the desire to use drugs and subsequent relapse can occur after …