Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of pavlovian and instrumental extinction learning

ME Bouton, S Maren, GP McNally - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
This article reviews the behavioral neuroscience of extinction, the phenomenon in which a
behavior that has been acquired through Pavlovian or instrumental (operant) learning …

Animal models of drug relapse and craving: from drug priming-induced reinstatement to incubation of craving after voluntary abstinence

M Venniro, D Caprioli, Y Shaham - Progress in brain research, 2016 - Elsevier
High rates of relapse to drug use during abstinence is a defining feature of drug addiction. In
abstinent drug users, drug relapse is often precipitated by acute exposure to the self …

A molecular mechanism for choosing alcohol over an alternative reward

E Augier, E Barbier, RS Dulman, V Licheri, G Augier… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Alcohol addiction leads to increased choice of alcohol over healthy rewards. We established
an exclusive choice procedure in which~ 15% of outbred rats chose alcohol over a high …

Circuit and synaptic plasticity mechanisms of drug relapse

Y Dong, JR Taylor, ME Wolf… - Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
High rates of relapse to drug use during abstinence is a defining feature of human drug
addiction. This clinical scenario has been studied at the preclinical level using different …

The anterior insular cortex→ central amygdala glutamatergic pathway is critical to relapse after contingency management

M Venniro, D Caprioli, M Zhang, LR Whitaker, S Zhang… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Despite decades of research on neurobiological mechanisms of psychostimulant addiction,
the only effective treatment for many addicts is contingency management, a behavioral …

Role of dorsomedial striatum neuronal ensembles in incubation of methamphetamine craving after voluntary abstinence

D Caprioli, M Venniro, M Zhang… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
We recently developed a rat model of incubation of methamphetamine craving after choice-
based voluntary abstinence. Here, we studied the role of dorsolateral striatum (DLS) and …

Distinct Fos-expressing neuronal ensembles in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex mediate food reward and extinction memories

BL Warren, MP Mendoza, FC Cruz… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
In operant learning, initial reward-associated memories are thought to be distinct from
subsequent extinction-associated memories. Memories formed during operant learning are …

Incubation of methamphetamine craving is associated with selective increases in expression of Bdnf and trkb, glutamate receptors, and epigenetic enzymes in cue …

X Li, FJ Rubio, T Zeric, JM Bossert… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Cue-induced methamphetamine seeking progressively increases after withdrawal
(incubation of methamphetamine craving), but the underlying mechanisms are largely …

Nucleus accumbens Drd1-expressing neurons control aggression self-administration and aggression seeking in mice

SA Golden, M Jin, C Heins, M Venniro… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
We recently developed a mouse model of appetitive operant aggression and reported that
adult male outbred CD-1 mice lever-press for the opportunity to attack subordinate male …

Neural circuit dynamics of drug-context associative learning in the mouse hippocampus

Y Sun, LM Giocomo - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The environmental context associated with previous drug consumption is a potent trigger for
drug relapse. However, the mechanism by which neural representations of context are …