Habit Formation and Compulsion

Jul 18, 2016 by in EXOTIC, WILD, ZOO Comments Off on Habit Formation and Compulsion

, Daina Economidou1, Yann Pelloux1 and Barry J. Everitt1 (1) Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (2) UKAVENIR team Psychobiology of Compulsive Disorders, Pôle Biologie Santé CNRS UMR 6187 & Université…

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Craving

Jul 18, 2016 by in EXOTIC, WILD, ZOO Comments Off on Craving

(1) Department of Psychology and Program in Behavioral Neuroscience, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA   Abstract The thesis of this chapter is that the unconscious (basic) craving process, consisting…

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Binge Drug Taking

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Fig. 1. Circadian controlled cocaine intake is dysregulated for more than a month after episodic social defeat stress. Upper panel portrays hourly cocaine intake as mg/kg/h for previously stressed and…

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Nicotine Self-Administration

Jul 18, 2016 by in EXOTIC, WILD, ZOO Comments Off on Nicotine Self-Administration

and Paul B. S. Clarke1 (1) Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada   Abstract Intravenous self-administration (IVSA) studies have shown that nicotine can serve as a reinforcer in ­animals…

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Withdrawal

Jul 18, 2016 by in EXOTIC, WILD, ZOO Comments Off on Withdrawal

, Heidi N. Boyda1, 2 and Ric M. Procyshyn2, 3 (1) Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2) BC Mental Health & Addiction Research Institute, Vancouver, BC,…

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Sensitization

Jul 18, 2016 by in EXOTIC, WILD, ZOO Comments Off on Sensitization

and Paul Vezina1 (1) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA   Abstract Exposure to psychostimulant drugs leads to sensitized locomotor responding, nucleus accumbens (NAcc)…

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Environmental Modulation of Drug Taking

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, Daniele Caprioli1, Arianna Testa1, Maria Teresa De Luca1 and Michele Celentano1 (1) Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy   Abstract A variety of animal models have been developed to mimic…

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Intracranial Self-Stimulation

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and Athina Markou1 (1) Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, USA   Abstract Intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) is an operant behavioral paradigm…

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Escalation of Drug Use

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(1) CNRS U MR5227 Laboratoire Mouvement Adaptation Cognition, Université Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France (2) Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France   Abstract Among the different behavioral criteria used to discriminate substance…

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Impulsivity

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Substance Delay discounting Go/no-go SSRTT 5-CSRTT Cocaine     Acute ? ⇑ (66) ? ⇑ (67) rep/chronic/self-admin ⇑ (61, 63, 68) ⇔ (61) ⇓ (69) ⇔ (70) Amphetamine     Acute ⇓⇑ (45, 57,…

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