How do drugs of abuse modify neural circuitry and thereby lead to addictive behaviour? As
for many forms of experience-dependent plasticity, modifications in glutamatergic synaptic …

Dopamine neurons play a key role in reward-related behaviors. Reward coding theories
predict that dopamine neurons will be inhibited by or will not respond to aversive stimuli. …

Midbrain dopamine neurons play central roles in reward processing. It is widely assumed
that all dopamine neurons encode the same information. Some evidence, however, suggests …

The dopamine system is involved in motivation, reward and learning, and dysfunction in this
system has been implicated in several disorders, including Parkinson's disease (PD) and …

The motivation to seek social contact may arise from either positive or negative emotional
states, as social interaction can be rewarding and social isolation can be aversive. While …

Stress increases addictive behaviors and is a common cause of relapse. Corticotropin-releasing
factor (CRF) plays a key role in the modulation of drug taking by stress. However, the …

Disrupted salience processing is proposed as central in linking dysregulated dopamine function
with psychotic symptoms. Several strands of evidence are now converging in support of …

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Stress plays a key role in modulating the development and expression of addictive behavior,
and is a major cause of relapse following periods of abstinence. In this review we focus our …

There is general agreement that midbrain dopamine neurons play key roles in reward
processing. What is more controversial is the role they play in processing salient stimuli that are …