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 …

Chemogenetic modulation of accumbens direct or indirect pathways bidirectionally alters reinstatement of heroin-seeking in high-but not low-risk rats

TJ O'Neal, MN Nooney, K Thien… - …, 2020 - nature.com
Opioid addiction has been declared a public health emergency, with fatal overdoses
following relapse reaching epidemic proportions and disease-associated costs continuing to …

Ventral pallidum neurons encode incentive value and promote cue-elicited instrumental actions

JM Richard, F Ambroggi, PH Janak, HL Fields - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
The ventral pallidum (VP) is posited to contribute to reward seeking by conveying upstream
signals from the nucleus accumbens (NAc). Yet, very little is known about how VP neuron …

The mesolimbic dopamine activity signatures of relapse to alcohol-seeking

Y Liu, P Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel, JOY Yau… - Journal of …, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
The mesolimbic dopamine system comprises distinct compartments supporting different
functions in learning and motivation. Less well understood is how complex addiction-related …

Context-induced relapse after extinction versus punishment: similarities and differences

NJ Marchant, EJ Campbell, Y Pelloux, JM Bossert… - …, 2019 - Springer
Results from clinical studies suggest that drug relapse and craving are often provoked by
exposure to drug-associated contexts. Since 2002, this phenomenon has been modeled in …

Context-induced reinstatement of methamphetamine seeking is associated with unique molecular alterations in Fos-expressing dorsolateral striatum neurons

FJ Rubio, QR Liu, X Li, FC Cruz, RM Leao… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Context-induced reinstatement of drug seeking is a well established animal model for
assessing the neural mechanisms underlying context-induced drug relapse, a major factor …

Role of corticostriatal circuits in context-induced reinstatement of drug seeking

NJ Marchant, K Kaganovsky, Y Shaham, JM Bossert - Brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
Drug addiction is characterized by persistent relapse vulnerability during abstinence. In
abstinent drug users, relapse is often precipitated by re-exposure to environmental contexts …

The role of enkephalinergic systems in substance use disorders

LG Rysztak, EM Jutkiewicz - Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Enkephalin, an endogenous opioid peptide, is highly expressed in the reward pathway and
may modulate neurotransmission to regulate reward-related behaviors, such as drug-taking …

Regulation of alcohol extinction and cue-induced reinstatement by specific projections among medial prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, and basolateral …

CR Keistler, E Hammarlund, JM Barker… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
The ability to inhibit drinking is a significant challenge for recovering alcoholics, especially in
the presence of alcohol-associated cues. Previous studies have demonstrated that the …

Endogenous opiates and behavior: 2013

RJ Bodnar - Peptides, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper is the thirty-sixth consecutive installment of the annual review of research
concerning the endogenous opioid system. It summarizes papers published during 2013 …