Methamphetamine (METH) is a highly addictive psychostimulant and one of the most widely
abused drugs worldwide. The continuous use of METH eventually leads to drug addiction …

The capacity to remember our past experiences and organize our future draws on a number
of cognitive processes that allow our brain to form and store neural representations that can …

Learned associations between drugs and environment play an important role in addiction
and are thought to be encoded within specific patterns of sparsely distributed neurons called …

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex psychiatric disorder characterized by the
intrusive re-experiencing of past trauma, avoidant behavior, enhanced fear, and …

Drug addiction is defined as a compulsive pattern of drug-seeking-and taking-behavior, with
recurrent episodes of abstinence and relapse, and a loss of control despite negative …

The skeleton is the most common metastatic site for breast cancer, with bone metastasis
causing pain as well as risk of pathological fractures. Interaction between tumors and the …

Despite their distinct targets, all addictive drugs commonly abused by humans evoke
increases in dopamine (DA) concentration within the striatum. The main DA Guanine …

The regulator of G-protein signaling 14 (RGS14) is a multifunctional signaling protein that
regulates post synaptic plasticity in neurons. RGS14 is expressed in the brain regions …

Addiction to psychostimulants has been considered as a chronic psychiatric disorder
characterized by craving and compulsive drug seeking and use. Over the past two decades …

Tonically active cholinergic interneurons (TANs) from the nucleus accumbens (NAc) are
centrally involved in reward behavior. TANs express a vesicular glutamate transporter …