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Role of cues and contexts on drug-seeking behaviour
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posted on 2023-01-31, 22:18 authored by C J Perry, I Zbukvic, Jee Hyun KimJee Hyun Kim, A J LawrenceEnvironmental stimuli are powerful mediators of craving and relapse in substance-abuse disorders. This review examined how animal models have been used to investigate the cognitive mechanisms through which cues are able to affect drug-seeking behaviour. We address how animal models can describe the way drug-associated cues come to facilitate the development and persistence of drug taking, as well as how these cues are critical to the tendency to relapse that characterizes substance-abuse disorders. Drug-associated cues acquire properties of conditioned reinforcement, incentive motivation and discriminative control, which allow them to influence drug-seeking behaviour. Using these models, researchers have been able to investigate the pharmacology subserving the behavioural impact of environmental stimuli, some of which we highlight. Subsequently, we examine whether the impact of drug-associated stimuli can be attenuated via a process of extinction, and how this question is addressed in the laboratory. We discuss how preclinical research has been translated into behavioural therapies targeting substance abuse, as well as highlight potential developments to therapies that might produce more enduring changes in behaviour.
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British Journal of PharmacologyVolume
171Pagination
4636 - 4672Publisher DOI
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0007-1188eISSN
1476-5381Publication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalUsage metrics
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Science & TechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicinePharmacology & PharmacyMETABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE-RECEPTORSTRESS-INDUCED REINSTATEMENTCOCAINE-INDUCED REINSTATEMENTCORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING-FACTORNUCLEUS-ACCUMBENS CORECONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCESELF-ADMINISTRATION BEHAVIORDOPAMINE D-3 RECEPTORSYOHIMBINE-INDUCED REINSTATEMENTCANNABINOID CB1 RECEPTORS
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