W Schultz - Neuron, 2011 - Elsevier How do addictive drugs hijack the brain's reward system? This review speculates how normal, physiological reward processes may be affected by addictive drugs. Addictive drugs affect acute responses and plasticity in dopamine neurons and postsynaptic structures. ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - All 2 versions
V Lovic, BT Saunders, LM Yager… - Behavioural Brain …, 2011 - Elsevier Animals vary considerably in the degree to which they attribute incentive salience to cues predictive of reward. When a discrete cue (conditional stimulus) is repeatedly paired with delivery of a food reward (unconditional stimulus) only some rats (“sign-trackers”; STs) come to find the cue ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - All 2 versions
[PDF] from stanford.eduGD Stuber, DR Sparta, AM Stamatakis… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com The basolateral amygdala (BLA) has a crucial role in emotional learning irrespective of valence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 22, 23 . The BLA projection to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) is thought to modulate cue-triggered motivated behaviours 4, 6, 7, 24, 25 , but our understanding of the ... All 4 versions
L van den Berg, K Pieterse, JA Malik… - International Journal of …, 2011 - nature.com Childhood obesity is a major health problem. An association between children's body mass index (BMI) and overeating has been established, but mechanisms leading to overeating are poorly understood. The personality characteristics impulsivity and reward responsiveness may ... All 3 versions
[HTML] from cjb.netTM McGranahan, NE Patzlaff, SR Grady… - The Journal of …, 2011 - neuro.cjb.net Nicotine is the primary psychoactive substance in tobacco, and it exerts its effects by interaction with various subtypes of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in the brain. One of the major subtypes expressed in brain, the α4β2-nAChR, endogenously modulates neuronal ...