Our understanding of the mechanisms mediating or moderating the placebo response to
medicines has grown substantially over the past decade and offers the opportunity to …

Behavioral treatments arranging differential reinforcement effectively treat severe problem
behavior while interventions are underway. However, many events challenge these …

Relapse to old, unhealthy eating habits is a major problem in human dietary treatments. The
mechanisms underlying this relapse are unknown. Surprisingly, until recently this clinical …

Rationale The action of serotonin (5-HT) at the 5-HT 2A receptor subtype is thought to be
involved in cocaine-seeking behavior that is motivated by exposure to drug-associated cues …

Chronic drug self-administration and withdrawal are associated with distinct neuroimmune
adaptations that may increase drug craving and relapse vulnerability in humans. The …

Abstract Serotonin 2C receptor (5-HT 2C R) agonists administered systemically attenuate
both cocaine-primed and cue-elicited reinstatement of extinguished cocaine-seeking …

Even though knowledge and systematic application of placebo responses in the immune
system are sparse, this topic is of particular importance since it may aim at drug-dose …

Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR)-signaling is one key driver of glioblastoma (GBM),
facilitating tumor growth by promoting the shift to an anti-inflammatory, pro-cancerogenic …

Cocaine‐associated cues acquire incentive motivational effects that manifest as cue‐elicited
craving in humans and cocaine‐seeking behavior in rats. Here we examine the hypothesis …

Environmental enrichment (EE) introduced during abstinence from cocaine self-
administration is protective in reducing cue-elicited incentive motivation for cocaine in rats …