Neural mechanisms of addiction: the role of reward-related learning and memory

SE Hyman, RC Malenka, EJ Nestler - Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Addiction is a state of compulsive drug use; despite treatment and other attempts to control
drug taking, addiction tends to persist. Clinical and laboratory observations have converged …

Addiction, dopamine, and the molecular mechanisms of memory

JD Berke, SE Hyman - Neuron, 2000 - cell.com
Joshua D. Berke* § and Steven E. Hyman*†‡* Section on Molecular Plasticity National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke locomotor activity. Psychostimulants also tend …

Inducible and constitutive transcription factors in the mammalian nervous system: control of gene expression by Jun, Fos and Krox, and CREB/ATF proteins

T Herdegen, JD Leah - Brain research reviews, 1998 - Elsevier
This article reviews findings up to the end of 1997 about the inducible transcription factors
(ITFs) c-Jun, JunB, JunD, c-Fos, FosB, Fra-1, Fra-2, Krox-20 (Egr-2) and Krox-24 (NGFI-A …

Chronic antidepressant administration increases the expression of cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) in rat hippocampus

M Nibuya, EJ Nestler, RS Duman - Journal of Neuroscience, 1996 - Soc Neuroscience
The present study demonstrates that chronic, but not acute, adminstration of several different
classes of antidepressants, including serotonin-and norepinephrine-selective reuptake …

Addiction: a disease of learning and memory

SE Hyman - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2005 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
If neurobiology is ultimately to contribute to the development of successful treatments for
drug addiction, researchers must discover the molecular mechanisms by which drug …

Inhibition of activity-dependent arc protein expression in the rat hippocampus impairs the maintenance of long-term potentiation and the consolidation of long-term …

JF Guzowski, GL Lyford, GD Stevenson… - Journal of …, 2000 - Soc Neuroscience
It is widely believed that the brain processes information and stores memories by modifying
and stabilizing synaptic connections between neurons. In experimental models of synaptic …

Dopamine receptor signaling

KA Neve, JK Seamans… - Journal of receptors and …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
The D1-like (D1, D5) and D2-like (D2, D3, D4) classes of dopamine receptors each has
shared signaling properties that contribute to the definition of the receptor class, although …

Structure and function of dopamine receptors

D Vallone, R Picetti, E Borrelli - Neuroscience & biobehavioral reviews, 2000 - Elsevier
Dopamine (DA) is the most abundant catecholamine in the brain. The involvement and
importance of DA as a neurotransmitter in the regulation of different physiological functions …

The basal ganglia

AM Graybiel - Current biology, 2000 - cell.com
The basal ganglia, said Kinnear-Wilson in the 1920s, have all the clarity of a dark basement.
And so it has remained for the better part of a century. There are now major new ideas about …

Invited review c-Fos as a transcription factor: a stressful (re) view from a functional map

KJ Kovács - Neurochemistry international, 1998 - Elsevier
This article summarizes the achievements that have been accumulated about the role of c-
Fos as a transcription factor and as a functional marker of activated neurons. Since its …