Eating ‘Junk-Food’ Produces Rapid and Long-Lasting Increases in NAc CP-AMPA Receptors: Implications for Enhanced Cue-Induced Motivation and Food Addiction

Synaptic mechanisms underlying persistent cocaine craving

(2016) Marina E. Wolf   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Pre-existing differences and diet-induced alterations in striatal dopamine systems of obesity-prone rats

(2016) Peter J. Vollbrecht et al.   Obesity

Current review of genetics of human obesity: from molecular mechanisms to an evolutionary perspective

(2015) David Albuquerque et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

Individual Differences in Cue-Induced Motivation and Striatal Systems in Rats Susceptible to Diet-Induced Obesity

(2015) Mike JF Robinson et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Pre-existing differences in motivation for food and sensitivity to cocaine-induced locomotion in obesity-prone rats

(2015) Peter J. Vollbrecht et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Diet-induced obesity and diet-resistant rats: differences in the rewarding and anorectic effects of d-amphetamine

(2015) Marta Valenza et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Enhanced cocaine-induced locomotor sensitization and intrinsic excitability of NAc medium spiny neurons in adult but not in adolescent rats susceptible to diet-induced obesity

(2015) Max F. Oginsky et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

A Protein Synthesis-Dependent Mechanism Sustains Calcium-Permeable AMPA Receptor Transmission in Nucleus Accumbens Synapses during Withdrawal from Cocaine Self-Administration

(2014) A. F. Scheyer et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Bidirectional Modulation of Incubation of Cocaine Craving by Silent Synapse-Based Remodeling of Prefrontal Cortex to Accumbens Projections

(2014) Yao-Ying Ma et al.   NEURON

Sucrose Ingestion Induces Rapid AMPA Receptor Trafficking

(2013) D. S. Tukey et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Kalirin-7 Mediates Cocaine-Induced AMPA Receptor and Spine Plasticity, Enabling Incentive Sensitization

(2013) X. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Maturation of silent synapses in amygdala-accumbens projection contributes to incubation of cocaine craving

(2013) Brian R Lee et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Time-dependent decreases in nucleus accumbens AMPA/NMDA ratio and incubation of sucrose craving in adolescent and adult rats

(2013) Danielle S. Counotte et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Orofacial reactivity to the sight and smell of food stimuli. Evidence for anticipatory liking related to food reward cues in overweight children

(2012) Robert Soussignan et al.   APPETITE

Individual Differences in Nucleus Accumbens Activity to Food and Sexual Images Predict Weight Gain and Sexual Behavior

(2012) K. E. Demos et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The contribution of brain reward circuits to the obesity epidemic

(2012) Eric Stice et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Obesity and addiction: neurobiological overlaps

(2012) N. D. Volkow et al.   Obesity Reviews

Common cellular and molecular mechanisms in obesity and drug addiction

(2011) Paul J. Kenny   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

fMRI reactivity to high-calorie food pictures predicts short- and long-term outcome in a weight-loss program

(2011) Donna L. Murdaugh et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Alterations in AMPA receptor subunits and TARPs in the rat nucleus accumbens related to the formation of Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors during the incubation of cocaine craving

(2011) Carrie R. Ferrario et al.   NEUROPHARMACOLOGY

Attentional Bias to Food Images Associated With Elevated Weight and Future Weight Gain: An fMRI Study

(2011) Sonja Yokum et al.   Obesity

Quantitative analysis of AMPA receptor subunit composition in addiction-related brain regions

(2010) Jeremy M. Reimers et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Cheesecake-eating rats and the question of food addiction

(2010) David H Epstein et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

AMPA receptor plasticity in the nucleus accumbens after repeated exposure to cocaine

(2010) Marina E. Wolf et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Individual differences in the neurophysiology of reward and the obesity epidemic

(2009) D M Small   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Behavioral sensitization to amphetamine is not accompanied by changes in glutamate receptor surface expression in the rat nucleus accumbens

(2009) Christopher L. Nelson et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

The Role of Glutamate Receptor Redistribution in Locomotor Sensitization to Cocaine

(2009) Carrie R Ferrario et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Cortico-Basal Ganglia Reward Network: Microcircuitry

(2009) Susan R Sesack et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Evidence for defective mesolimbic dopamine exocytosis in obesity-prone rats

(2008) Brenda M. Geiger et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Formation of accumbens GluR2-lacking AMPA receptors mediates incubation of cocaine craving

(2008) Kelly L. Conrad et al.   NATURE

The incentive sensitization theory of addiction: some current issues

(2008) T. E Robinson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES