The nucleus accumbens: mechanisms of addiction across drug classes reflect the importance of glutamate homeostasis

MD Scofield, JA Heinsbroek, CD Gipson… - Pharmacological …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The nucleus accumbens is a major input structure of the basal ganglia and integrates
information from cortical and limbic structures to mediate goal-directed behaviors. Chronic …

The neurobiology of drug addiction: cross-species insights into the dysfunction and recovery of the prefrontal cortex

AO Ceceli, CW Bradberry, RZ Goldstein - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022‏ - nature.com
A growing preclinical and clinical body of work on the effects of chronic drug use and drug
addiction has extended the scope of inquiry from the putative reward-related subcortical …

The brain on stress: vulnerability and plasticity of the prefrontal cortex over the life course

BS McEwen, JH Morrison - Neuron, 2013‏ - cell.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is involved in working memory and self-regulatory and goal-
directed behaviors and displays remarkable structural and functional plasticity over the life …

Dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex in addiction: neuroimaging findings and clinical implications

RZ Goldstein, ND Volkow - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2011‏ - nature.com
The loss of control over drug intake that occurs in addiction was initially believed to result
from disruption of subcortical reward circuits. However, imaging studies in addictive …

Experience-dependent structural synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain

A Holtmaat, K Svoboda - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2009‏ - nature.com
Synaptic plasticity in adult neural circuits may involve the strengthening or weakening of
existing synapses as well as structural plasticity, including synapse formation and …

Drug addiction and its underlying neurobiological basis: neuroimaging evidence for the involvement of the frontal cortex

RZ Goldstein, ND Volkow - American journal of Psychiatry, 2002‏ - psychiatryonline.org
OBJECTIVE: Studies of the neurobiological processes underlying drug addiction primarily
have focused on limbic subcortical structures. Here the authors evaluated the role of frontal …

The neural basis of addiction: a pathology of motivation and choice

PW Kalivas, ND Volkow - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2005‏ - psychiatryonline.org
OBJECTIVE: A primary behavioral pathology in drug addiction is the overpowering
motivational strength and decreased ability to control the desire to obtain drugs. In this …

The reinstatement model of drug relapse: history, methodology and major findings

Y Shaham, U Shalev, L Lu, H De Wit, J Stewart - Psychopharmacology, 2003‏ - Springer
Rational and objectives. The reinstatement model is currently used in many laboratories to
investigate mechanisms underlying relapse to drug seeking. Here, we review briefly the …

[كتاب][B] Addiction: A disorder of choice

GM Heyman - 2009‏ - degruyter.com
In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about
addiction—that it is a disease, a compulsion beyond conscious control—is wrong. At the …

Bidirectional modulation of incubation of cocaine craving by silent synapse-based remodeling of prefrontal cortex to accumbens projections

YY Ma, BR Lee, X Wang, C Guo, L Liu, R Cui, Y Lan… - Neuron, 2014‏ - cell.com
Glutamatergic projections from the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) to nucleus accumbens
(NAc) contribute to cocaine relapse. Here we show that silent synapse-based remodeling of …