Endocannabinoid modulation of dopamine neurotransmission

DP Covey, Y Mateo, D Sulzer, JF Cheer… - Neuropharmacology, 2017 - Elsevier
Dopamine (DA) is a major catecholamine neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain that
controls neural circuits involved in the cognitive, emotional, and motor aspects of goal …

Dopamine's effects on corticostriatal synapses during reward-based behaviors

NS Bamford, RM Wightman, D Sulzer - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Many learned responses depend on the coordinated activation and inhibition of synaptic
pathways in the striatum. Local dopamine neurotransmission acts in concert with a variety of …

VTA dopamine neuron activity encodes social interaction and promotes reinforcement learning through social prediction error

C Solié, B Girard, B Righetti, M Tapparel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Social interactions are motivated behaviors that, in many species, facilitate learning.
However, how the brain encodes the reinforcing properties of social interactions remains …

Dopamine deficiency reduces striatal cholinergic interneuron function in models of Parkinson's disease

JW McKinley, Z Shi, I Kawikova, M Hur, IJ Bamford… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Motor and cognitive functions depend on the coordinated interactions between dopamine
(DA) and acetylcholine (ACh) at striatal synapses. Increased ACh availability was assumed …

Alterations in the intrinsic properties of striatal cholinergic interneurons after dopamine lesion and chronic L-DOPA

SJ Choi, TC Ma, Y Ding, T Cheung, N Joshi, D Sulzer… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Changes in striatal cholinergic interneuron (ChI) activity are thought to contribute to
Parkinson's disease pathophysiology and dyskinesia from chronic L-3, 4 …

μ-Opioid receptors on distinct neuronal populations mediate different aspects of opioid reward-related behaviors

AL Severino, N Mittal, JK Hakimian, N Velarde… - eneuro, 2020 - eneuro.org
Abstract μ-Opioid receptors (MORs) are densely expressed in different brain regions known
to mediate reward. One such region is the striatum where MORs are densely expressed, yet …

Dietary supplementation with omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids reduces opioid-seeking behaviors and alters the gut microbiome

JK Hakimian, TS Dong, JA Barahona, V Lagishetty… - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Opioids are highly addictive substances with a relapse rate of over 90%. While preclinical
models of chronic opioid exposure exist for studying opioid dependence, none recapitulate …

The abnormal firing of Purkinje cells in the knockin mouse model of DYT1 dystonia

Y Liu, H Xing, BJ Wilkes, F Yokoi, H Chen… - Brain research …, 2020 - Elsevier
DYT1 dystonia is an inherited movement disorder caused by a heterozygous trinucleotide
(GAG) deletion in DYT1/TOR1A, coding for torsinA. Growing evidence suggests that the …

Complex control of striatal neurotransmission by nicotinic acetylcholine receptors via excitatory inputs onto medium spiny neurons

V Licheri, O Lagström, A Lotfi, MH Patton… - Journal of …, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
The prevalence of nicotine dependence is higher than that for any other substance abuse
disorder; still, the underlying mechanisms are not fully established. To this end, we studied …

Top-down circuitry from the anterior insular cortex to VTA dopamine neurons modulates reward-related memory

E Hernandez-Ortiz, J Luis-Islas, F Tecuapetla… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
The insular cortex (IC) has been linked to the processing of interoceptive and exteroceptive
signals associated with addictive behavior. However, whether the IC modulates the …