The cortisol switch between vulnerability and resilience

ER de Kloet, M Joëls - Molecular psychiatry, 2024‏ - nature.com
In concert with neuropeptides and transmitters, the end products of the hypothalamus-
pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, the glucocorticoid hormones cortisol and corticosterone …

Addiction and stress: An allostatic view

GF Koob, J Schulkin - Neuroscience & biobehavioral reviews, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Allostasis, or stability through change, has most often been linked with challenges to
homeostasis, in which repeated challenges or stressors produce sufficient allostatic load to …

Improving translation of animal models of addiction and relapse by reverse translation

M Venniro, ML Banks, M Heilig, DH Epstein… - Nature Reviews …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Critical features of human addiction are increasingly being incorporated into complementary
animal models, including escalation of drug intake, punished drug seeking and taking …

Drug addiction: hyperkatifeia/negative reinforcement as a framework for medications development

GF Koob - Pharmacological reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Compulsive drug seeking that is associated with addiction is hypothesized to follow a
heuristic framework that involves three stages (binge/intoxication, withdrawal/negative affect …

Sex differences in the neurobiology of alcohol use disorder

A Flores-Bonilla, HN Richardson - Alcohol research: current …, 2020‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sex differences may play a critical role in modulating how chronic or heavy alcohol use
impacts the brain to cause the development of alcohol use disorder (AUD). AUD is a …

The central amygdala as an integrative hub for anxiety and alcohol use disorders

NW Gilpin, MA Herman, M Roberto - Biological psychiatry, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The central amygdala (CeA) plays a central role in physiologic and behavioral responses to
fearful stimuli, stressful stimuli, and drug-related stimuli. The CeA receives dense inputs from …

The dark side of emotion: the addiction perspective

GF Koob - European journal of pharmacology, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Emotions are “feeling” states and classic physiological emotive responses that are
interpreted based on the history of the organism and the context. Motivation is a persistent …

Addiction as a stress surfeit disorder

GF Koob, CL Buck, A Cohen, S Edwards, PE Park… - …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Drug addiction has been conceptualized as a chronically relapsing disorder of compulsive
drug seeking and taking that progresses through three stages: binge/intoxication …

Time to connect: bringing social context into addiction neuroscience

M Heilig, DH Epstein, MA Nader… - Nature Reviews …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Research on the neural substrates of drug reward, withdrawal and relapse has yet to be
translated into significant advances in the treatment of addiction. One potential reason is that …

Understanding addiction using animal models

BN Kuhn, PW Kalivas, AC Bobadilla - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Drug addiction is a neuropsychiatric disorder with grave personal consequences that has an
extraordinary global economic impact. Despite decades of research, the options available to …