Preclinical Studies Shed Light on Individual Variation in Addiction Vulnerability

Quantifying Individual Variation in the Propensity to Attribute Incentive Salience to Reward Cues

(2012) Paul J. Meyer et al.   PLoS One

Inadequate early social experience increases the incentive salience of reward-related cues in adulthood

(2011) Anna M. Lomanowska et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Individual Variation in the Motivational Properties of Cocaine

(2011) Benjamin T Saunders et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

A Cocaine Cue Acts as an Incentive Stimulus in Some but not Others: Implications for Addiction

(2010) Benjamin T. Saunders et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

A selective role for dopamine in stimulus–reward learning

(2010) Shelly B. Flagel et al.   NATURE

An Animal Model of Genetic Vulnerability to Behavioral Disinhibition and Responsiveness to Reward-Related Cues: Implications for Addiction

(2009) Shelly B Flagel et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY