Evidence for incentive salience sensitization as a pathway to alcohol use disorder

RU Cofresí, BD Bartholow, TM Piasecki - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2019 - Elsevier
The incentive salience sensitization (ISS) theory of addiction holds that addictive behavior
stems from the ability of drugs to progressively sensitize the brain circuitry that mediates …

[HTML][HTML] Conditioned stimulus effects on paired or alternative reinforcement depend on presentation duration: Implications for conceptualizations of craving

BC Ginsburg, A Nawrocik-Madrid… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Conditioned stimuli (CS) associated with alcohol ingestion are thought to play a role in
relapse by producing a craving that in turn increases motivation to drink which increases …

Cue-alcohol associative learning in female rats

RU Cofresí, MH Monfils, N Chaudhri, RA Gonzales… - Alcohol, 2019 - Elsevier
The ability of environmental cues to trigger alcohol-seeking behaviors is believed to facilitate
problematic alcohol use. We previously showed that the development of this cue-evoked …

Ethanol-paired conditioned stimulus effects on concurrent reinforced responding for ethanol and food

H AlTfaili, BC Ginsburg, RJ Lamb - Alcohol, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The influence of Pavlovian Conditioned Stimuli (CS) on ethanol self-administration
and choice between ethanol and an alternative are potentially important. Ethanol-paired CS …

Ethanol-paired stimuli can increase reinforced ethanol responding

RJ Lamb, CW Schindler, BC Ginsburg - Alcohol, 2020 - Elsevier
While ethanol-paired stimuli are frequently postulated to increase drinking motivation and
thus increase ethanol responding and precipitate relapse, no study has demonstrated …

Cue-alcohol associative learning in female rats

N Chaudhri, RU Cofresí, MH Monfils… - …, 2019 - spectrum.library.concordia.ca
The ability of environmental cues to trigger alcohol seeking behaviors is believed to facilitate
problematic alcohol use. We previously showed that the development of this cue-evoked …