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1. Role of adolescent-formed, context-drug-associations on reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior in rats

   Rationale

   Drug use during adolescence results in a lifelong risk to develop substance-use disorders. Adolescent rats are less reactive to...

   Bo Ram Cho, Jennifer Gerena, ... Amy A. Arguello in Psychopharmacology

   Article 29 June 2020
   

2. Effects of Prenatal and Early Postnatal Administration of Valproate on Behavior and Cyhtological Characteristics in Wistar Rats

   Prenatal administration of valproic acid (VA) and its salts is a common approach to modeling impairments to nervous system development; the sequelae...

   V. R. Gedzun, M. M. Svinov, ... V. A. Dubynin in Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

   Article 23 June 2021

3. Mice learn multi-step routes by memorizing subgoal locations

   The behavioral strategies that mammals use to learn multi-step routes are unknown. In this study, we investigated how mice navigate to shelter in...

   Philip Shamash, Sarah F. Olesen, ... Tiago Branco in Nature Neuroscience

   Article 29 July 2021
   

4. Opioid withdrawal: role in addiction and neural mechanisms

   Withdrawal from opioids involves a negative affective state that promotes maintenance of drug-seeking behavior and relapse. As such, understanding...

   Sean C. Monroe, Anna K. Radke in Psychopharmacology

   Article 10 May 2023

5. Alternative Approaches to Understanding Habit Learning in the Dorsolateral Striatum

   Our daily lives are full of habits. Yet, even though we know them intimately, habits are surprisingly hard to pin down in laboratory settings in...

   Kenneth A. Amaya, Kyle S. Smith in Habits

   Chapter 2024
   

6. Characterization of basal forebrain glutamate neurons suggests a role in control of arousal and avoidance behavior

   The basal forebrain (BF) is involved in arousal, attention, and reward processing but the role of individual BF neuronal subtypes is still being...

   James T. McKenna, Chun Yang, ... Ritchie E. Brown in Brain Structure and Function

   Article 16 May 2021
   

7. Outcome Devaluation as a Means of Distinguishing Habits from Goal-Directed Actions

   The outcome devaluation task is a powerful method of distinguishing between goal-directed and habitual behavior by modifying the value of the...

   Zachary Pierce-Messick, Laura H. Corbit in Habits

   Chapter 2024
   

8. Sex differences in mouse infralimbic cortex projections to the nucleus accumbens shell

   Background

   The nucleus accumbens (NAc) is an important region in motivation and reward. Glutamatergic inputs from the infralimbic cortex (ILC) to the...

   Caroline S. Johnson, Andrew D. Chapp, ... Paul G. Mermelstein in Biology of Sex Differences

   Article Open access 11 December 2023
   

9. Impact of a History of Caloric Restriction and a Frustration Stress Manipulation on Binge-Like Eating Behavior in Female Rats: Preclinical Results

   Medications, at present, play a limited role on eating disorders. Currently, only two drugs were approved by the Food and Drug Administration,...

   Maria Vittoria Micioni Di Bonaventura, Emanuela Micioni Di Bonaventura, ... Carlo Cifani in Animal Models of Eating Disorders

   Protocol 2021
   

10. Role of Endogenous Opioids in the Pathophysiology of Obesity and Eating Disorders

    This second chapter in our trilogy reviews and critically appraises the scientific evidence for the role of endogenous opioid system (EOS) activity...

    Sylvana Stephano Zuniga, Marcela Rodriguez Flores, Adriana Albu in Endogenous Opioids

    Chapter 2024
    

11. Neurocircuitry of Predatory Hunting

    Predatory hunting is an important type of innate behavior evolutionarily conserved across the animal kingdom. It is typically composed of a set of...

    Zheng-Dong Zhao, Li Zhang, ... Wei L. Shen in Neuroscience Bulletin

    Article Open access 27 January 2023
    

12. Characteristics of the Neuronal Support for Operative Behavior Formed by Mono- and Multistep Methods

    We report here studies to determine whether, and if so, how, the neuronal support for behavior depends on the number of training steps presented in...

    E. A. Kuzina, Yu. I. Aleksandrov in Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

    Article 01 July 2020

13. Role of the GABA_a and GABA_b receptors of the central nucleus of the amygdala in compulsive cocaine-seeking behavior in male rats

    Rationale

    Compulsive cocaine use, defined as the continued use despite the dire consequences, is a hallmark of cocaine addiction. Thus, understanding...

    WenLin Sun, Matt B. Yuill in Psychopharmacology

    Article 01 September 2020
    

14. Models of Autism and Methods for Assessing Autistic-Like Behavior in Animals

    Autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), including autism, constitute a wide range of states and are associated with deficit to social communications,...

    A. A. Semenova, O. L. Lopatina, A. B. Salmina in Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

    Article 01 October 2020

15. Assessment of Binge-Like Eating Behavior in Mice Utilizing a Weekly Intermittent Access Paradigm

    In humans, binge eating (BE) is central to the harmful effects of bulimia and binge eating disorder (BED). An estimated 30% of the obese population...

    Tiffany Tang, Natalie Barker, ... Traci A. Czyzyk in Animal Models of Eating Disorders

    Protocol 2021
    

16. The impact of three weeks of pre-quit varenicline on reinforcing value and craving for cigarettes in a laboratory choice procedure

    Rationale

    Varenicline, a partial nicotinic agonist, is theorized to attenuate pre-quit smoking reinforcement and post-quit withdrawal and craving....

    Schuyler C. Lawson, Julie C. Gass, ... Larry W. Hawk Jr in Psychopharmacology

    Article 21 November 2020
    

17. The effects of virtual reality environmental enrichments on craving to food in healthy volunteers

    Rationale

    Environmental enrichment (EE) is a non-pharmacological approach that has been shown to be effective in reducing food-taking in rats. Studies...

    Giulia Benvegnù, Alessandro Piva, ... Cristiano Chiamulera in Psychopharmacology

    Article Open access 11 September 2023
    

18. Sex-dependent divergence in the effects of GLP-1 agonist exendin-4 on alcohol reinforcement and reinstatement in C57BL/6J mice

    Rationale

    Alcohol use disorder remains a leading cause of preventable deaths, and current treatments have limited efficacy. Glucagon-like peptide 1...

    Claudia Díaz-Megido, Morgane Thomsen in Psychopharmacology

    Article Open access 28 April 2023
    

19. Effects of Single-Session Normobaric Hypoxia in Rats Aged 10 Days on Sensorimotor Development and Behavior

    Fetal or neonatal hypoxia is one of the main causes of neonatal mortality and results in long-term impairments to motor and cognitive functions. The...

    D. D. Khukhareva, Yu. A. Sukhanova, ... N. G. Levitskaya in Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

    Article 01 October 2021

20. Integrative Functions of the Cortico-Strio-Thalamo-Cortical System of the Brain

    This article discusses the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the spatiotemporal integration of different brain structures and the...

    S. V. Albertin in Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

    Article 01 September 2022