Reward Processing by the Opioid System in the Brain

Molecular Genetics of Addiction and Related Heritable Phenotypes

(2009) George R. Uhl et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

High Impulsivity Predicts Relapse to Cocaine-Seeking After Punishment-Induced Abstinence

(2009) Daina Economidou et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Opiate and cocaine addiction: from bench to clinic and back to the bench

(2009) Mary Jeanne Kreek et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PHARMACOLOGY

Genetic approaches to addiction: genes and alcohol

(2008) Francesca Ducci et al.   ADDICTION

The Opioid Peptides Enkephalin and β-Endorphin in Alcohol Dependence

(2008) Ildiko Racz et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Pattern of Intake and Drug Craving Predict the Development of Cocaine Addiction-like Behavior in Rats

(2008) David Belin et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Noradrenergic transmission in the extended amygdala: role in increased drug-seeking and relapse during protracted drug abstinence

(2008) Rachel J. Smith et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Mu-opioid receptor activation induces transcriptional plasticity in the central extended amygdala

(2008) K. Befort et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

(+)-Morphine attenuates the (−)-morphine-produced conditioned place preference and the µ-opioid receptor-mediated dopamine increase in the posterior nucleus accumbens of the rat

(2008) Maia Terashvili et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Infusions of naloxone into the medial preoptic area, ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus, and amygdala block conditioned place preference induced by paced mating behavior

(2008) S GARCIAHORSMAN et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

The Dysphoric Component of Stress Is Encoded by Activation of the Dynorphin  -Opioid System

(2008) B. B. Land et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Functional Interaction between the Hippocampus and Nucleus Accumbens Shell Is Necessary for the Acquisition of Appetitive Spatial Context Conditioning

(2008) R. Ito et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

 -Opioid Receptor Expression in the Ventral Tegmental Area Protects Against Elevated Alcohol Consumption

(2008) E. B. Margolis et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A Role for Brain Stress Systems in Addiction

(2008) George F. Koob   NEURON

Neurobiological substrates for the dark side of compulsivity in addiction

(2008) George F. Koob   NEUROPHARMACOLOGY

Biological substrates of reward and aversion: A nucleus accumbens activity hypothesis

(2008) William A. Carlezon et al.   NEUROPHARMACOLOGY

Augmentation of Morphine-Induced Sensitization but Reduction in Morphine Tolerance and Reward in Delta-Opioid Receptor Knockout Mice

(2008) V I Chefer et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Cocaine reward and hyperactivity in the rat: Sites of mu opioid receptor modulation

(2008) A.R. Soderman et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Blockade of mu-opioid receptors in the medial thalamus inhibits acquisition, but not expression, of morphine-induced conditioned place preference

(2008) N. Guo et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Effects of cocaine place conditioning, chronic escalating-dose “binge” pattern cocaine administration and acute withdrawal on orexin/hypocretin and preprodynorphin gene expressions in lateral hypothalamus of Fischer and Sprague–Dawley rats

(2008) Y. Zhou et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Endocrine, neural and pharmacological aspects of sexual satiety in male rats

(2008) Bryan V. Phillips-Farfán et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Implication of endogenous β-endorphin in the inhibition of the morphine-induced rewarding effect by the direct activation of spinal protein kinase C in mice

(2008) Keiichi Niikura et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Neurogenetic studies of alcohol addiction

(2008) J. C Crabbe   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cognitive and emotional consequences of binge drinking: role of amygdala and prefrontal cortex

(2008) D. N Stephens et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

β-Endorphin and drug-induced reward and reinforcement

(2008) Ilana Roth-Deri et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

High Impulsivity Predicts the Switch to Compulsive Cocaine-Taking

(2008) D. Belin et al.   SCIENCE

Dynorphin and prodynorphin mRNA changes in the striatum during nicotine withdrawal

(2008) Raffaella Isola et al.   SYNAPSE

Epigenetic mechanisms in drug addiction

(2008) William Renthal et al.   TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Addiction and the Brain Antireward System

(2007) George F. Koob et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

Approach to the genetics of alcoholism: A review based on pathophysiology

(2007) Michael D. Köhnke   BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY

Chronic morphine exposure during puberty induces long-lasting changes in opioid-related mRNA expression in the mediobasal hypothalamus

(2007) Elizabeth M. Byrnes   BRAIN RESEARCH

Enkephalin co-expression with classic neurotransmitters in the amygdaloid complex of the rat

(2007) Jean-François Poulin et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY