Congratulations to the NIDA labs who participated and received awards in the 2023 NIH Green Labs Program! Molecular Neuropsychiatry Section, Adjei, Nasser – Gold Translational Analytical Core, Kryszak, Lindsay – Silver Neuronal Circuits and Behavior Section, Sarsfield, Sarah – Silver Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch, Neuronal Networks Section, Barbano, Flavia – Bronze Molecular Targets and Medications… [Read More]
Hot Off the Press
Different Effects of Peer Sex on Operant Responding for Social Interaction and Striatal Dopamine Activity
Hot Off the Press – April 18, 2024 Published in The Journal of Neuroscience by Jonathan Chow, Kayla Pitts and Yavin Shaham, et al. from the NIDA IRP Neurobiology of Relapse Section. Summary Recent studies have shown that when rats are given a mutually exclusive choice between social interaction with a peer and an addictive… [Read More]
Reviews To Read
Relapse after electric barrier-induced voluntary abstinence: A review
Reviews To Read – April 2024. Published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology by Kenichiro Negishi and Yavin Shaham of the NIDA IRP Neurobiology of Relapse Section. In this review we introduce the electric barrier conflict model of drug relapse and review studies on behavioral and neuropharmacological mechanisms of cue-induced relapse and incubation of drug seeking (time-dependent… [Read More]
Featured Papers
Involvement of dopamine D3 receptor in impulsive choice decision-making in male rats.
Featured Paper of the Month – October 2024
Published in Neuropharmacology by Hui Shen, Zilu Ma and Yihong Yang, et al. of the NIDA IRP Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Section.
In this study, we used the delay-discounting task (DDT) to identify rats with different levels of impulsivity.
