Relapse to drug use during abstinence is a defining feature of addiction. During the last
several decades, this clinical scenario has been studied at the preclinical level using classic …

Cues associated with rewards, such as food or drugs of abuse, can themselves acquire
motivational properties. Acting as incentive stimuli, such cues can exert powerful control …

Sugar addiction: pushing the drug-sugar analogy to the limit : Current Opinion in Clinical
Nutrition & Metabolic Care Sugar addiction: pushing the drug-sugar analogy to the limit : Current …

Continued seeking and drinking of alcohol despite adverse legal, health, economic, and
societal consequences is a central hallmark of human alcohol use disorders. This …

Drug-associated cues can acquire powerful motivational control over the behavior of
addicts, and can contribute to relapse via multiple, dissociable mechanisms. Most preclinical …

Compulsive eating behavior is a transdiagnostic construct that is characteristic of medical
and psychiatric conditions such as forms of obesity and eating disorders. Although feeding …

Drug craving and relapse to drug use during abstinence are defining features of addiction.
Evidence indicates that drug craving and relapse in humans are often provoked by acute …

In a rat model of drug craving and relapse, cue-induced drug seeking progressively
increases after withdrawal from methamphetamine and other drugs, a phenomenon termed …

Addiction is a chronic relapsing disorder, in that most addicted individuals who choose to
quit taking drugs fail to maintain abstinence in the long-term. Relapse is especially likely …

BACKGROUND: Rat studies have demonstrated that exposure to environments associated
with alcohol intake reinstates alcohol seeking after extinction of alcohol-reinforced …