Striatal cholinergic interneuron regulation and circuit effects

SAO Lim, UJ Kang, DS McGehee - Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The striatum plays a central role in motor control and motor learning. Appropriate responses
to environmental stimuli, including pursuit of reward or avoidance of aversive experience all …

Dopamine and addiction: what have we learned from 40 years of research

M Solinas, P Belujon, PO Fernagut, M Jaber… - Journal of Neural …, 2019 - Springer
Among the neurotransmitters involved in addiction, dopamine (DA) is clearly the best known.
The critical role of DA in addiction is supported by converging evidence that has been …

Therapeutic potential of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

D Bertrand, CHL Lee, D Flood, F Marger… - Pharmacological …, 2015 - ASPET
Progress in the fields of neuroscience and molecular biology has identified the forebrain
cholinergic system as being important in many higher order brain functions. Further analysis …

Molecular mechanisms underlying the neuroprotection of environmental enrichment in Parkinson's disease

TA Alarcón, SM Presti-Silva, APT Simões… - Neural Regeneration …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Parkinson's disease is the most common movement disorder, affecting about 1% of the
population over the age of 60 years. Parkinson's disease is characterized clinically by …

Synaptic vesicle recycling pathway determines neurotransmitter content and release properties

K Silm, J Yang, PF Marcott, CS Asensio, J Eriksen… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
In contrast to temporal coding by synaptically acting neurotransmitters such as glutamate,
neuromodulators such as monoamines signal changes in firing rate. The two modes of …

Multiple nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes in the mouse amygdala regulate affective behaviors and response to social stress

YS Mineur, GM Fote, S Blakeman… - …, 2016 - nature.com
Electrophysiological and neurochemical studies implicate cholinergic signaling in the
basolateral amygdala (BLA) in behaviors related to stress. Both animal studies and human …

Response dynamics of midbrain dopamine neurons and serotonin neurons to heroin, nicotine, cocaine, and MDMA

C Wei, X Han, D Weng, Q Feng, X Qi, J Li, M Luo - Cell discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Heroin, nicotine, cocaine, and MDMA are abused by billions of people. They are believed to
target midbrain dopamine neurons and/or serotonin neurons, but their effects on the …

Food addiction and tobacco use disorder: common liability and shared mechanisms

L Zawertailo, S Attwells, WK Deruiter, TL Le, D Dawson… - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
As food addiction is being more commonly recognized within the scientific community,
parallels can be drawn between it and other addictive substance use disorders, including …

High fructose corn syrup induces metabolic dysregulation and altered dopamine signaling in the absence of obesity

AM Meyers, D Mourra, JA Beeler - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The contribution of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to metabolic disorder and obesity,
independent of high fat, energy-rich diets, is controversial. While high-fat diets are widely …

[HTML][HTML] Adolescent substance abuse, transgenerational consequences and epigenetics

H Salmanzadeh, SM Ahmadi-Soleimani… - Current …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Adolescence is the transitional period between childhood and adulthood and a critical
period in brain development. Adolescence in humans is also associated with increased …