'Liking'and 'wanting'in eating and food reward: Brain mechanisms and clinical implications

I Morales, KC Berridge - Physiology & behavior, 2020‏ - Elsevier
It is becoming clearer how neurobiological mechanisms generate 'liking'and
'wanting'components of food reward. Mesocorticolimbic mechanisms that enhance …

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 …

Multimodal map** of cell types and projections in the central nucleus of the amygdala

Y Wang, S Krabbe, M Eddison, FE Henry, G Fleishman… - Elife, 2023‏ - elifesciences.org
The central nucleus of the amygdala (CEA) is a brain region that integrates external and
internal sensory information and executes innate and adaptive behaviors through distinct …

Animal models of drug relapse and craving after voluntary abstinence: a review

I Fredriksson, M Venniro, DJ Reiner, JJ Chow… - Pharmacological …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Relapse to drug use during abstinence is a defining feature of addiction. During the last
several decades, this clinical scenario has been studied at the preclinical level using classic …

Plastic and stimulus-specific coding of salient events in the central amygdala

T Yang, K Yu, X Zhang, X **ao, X Chen, Y Fu, B Li - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
The central amygdala (CeA) is implicated in a range of mental processes including attention,
motivation, memory formation and extinction and in behaviours driven by either aversive or …

A neural substrate of compulsive alcohol use

E Domi, L Xu, S Toivainen, A Nordeman, F Gobbo… - Science …, 2021‏ - science.org
Alcohol intake remains controlled in a majority of users but becomes “compulsive,” ie,
continues despite adverse consequences, in a minority who develop alcohol addiction …

The protective effect of operant social reward on cocaine self-administration, choice, and relapse is dependent on delay and effort for the social reward

M Venniro, LV Panlilio, DH Epstein… - …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Social reinforcement-based treatments are effective for many, but not all, people with
addictions to drugs. We recently developed an operant rat model that mimics features of one …

Relapse after electric barrier-induced voluntary abstinence: A review

K Negishi, I Fredriksson, JM Bossert, A Zangen… - Current opinion in …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Relapse to drug use during abstinence is a defining feature of addiction. To date, however,
results from studies using rat relapse/reinstatement models have yet to result in FDA …

The protective effect of social reward on opioid and psychostimulant reward and relapse: behavior, pharmacology, and brain regions

M Venniro, RAM Marino, JJ Chow, D Caprioli… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - jneurosci.org
Until recently, most modern neuroscience research on addiction using animal models did
not incorporate manipulations of social factors. Social factors play a critical role in human …

Incentive motivation:'wanting'roles of central amygdala circuitry

SM Warlow, KC Berridge - Behavioural brain research, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The central nucleus of amygdala (CeA) mediates positively-valenced reward motivation as
well as negatively-valenced fear. Optogenetic or neurochemical stimulation of CeA circuitry …