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 …

Sex differences in opioid and psychostimulant craving and relapse: a critical review

C Nicolas, NE Zlebnik, M Farokhnia, L Leggio… - Pharmacological …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
A widely held dogma in the preclinical addiction field is that females are more vulnerable
than males to drug craving and relapse. Here, we first review clinical studies on sex …

Volitional social interaction prevents drug addiction in rat models

M Venniro, M Zhang, D Caprioli, JK Hoots… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Addiction treatment has not been appreciably improved by neuroscientific research. One
problem is that mechanistic studies using rodent models do not incorporate volitional social …

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 …

Circuit and synaptic plasticity mechanisms of drug relapse

Y Dong, JR Taylor, ME Wolf, Y Shaham - Journal of Neuroscience, 2017‏ - jneurosci.org
High rates of relapse to drug use during abstinence is a defining feature of human drug
addiction. This clinical scenario has been studied at the preclinical level using different …

A competitive model for striatal action selection

S Bariselli, WC Fobbs, MC Creed, AV Kravitz - Brain research, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The direct and indirect pathway striatal medium spiny neurons (dMSNs and iMSNs) have
long been linked to action selection, but the precise roles of these neurons in this process …

The anterior insular cortex→ central amygdala glutamatergic pathway is critical to relapse after contingency management

M Venniro, D Caprioli, M Zhang, LR Whitaker, S Zhang… - Neuron, 2017‏ - cell.com
Despite decades of research on neurobiological mechanisms of psychostimulant addiction,
the only effective treatment for many addicts is contingency management, a behavioral …

Relapse to opioid seeking in rat models: behavior, pharmacology and circuits

DJ Reiner, I Fredriksson, OM Lofaro… - …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Lifetime relapse rates remain a major obstacle in addressing the current opioid crisis.
Relapse to opioid use can be modeled in rodent studies where drug self-administration is …

An operant social self-administration and choice model in rats

M Venniro, Y Shaham - Nature protocols, 2020‏ - nature.com
It is difficult to translate results from animal research on addiction to an understanding of the
behavior of human drug users. Despite decades of basic research on neurobiological …

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 …