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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2016

A Closer Look at the Effects of Repeated Cocaine Exposure on Adaptive Decision-Making under Conditions That Promote Goal-Directed Control.

Briac Halbout, Angela T Liu, Sean B Ostlund

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Habit, choice, and addiction.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021
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  9. Computational models of drug use and addiction: A review.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2020
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  11. Addiction is driven by excessive goal-directed drug choice under negative affect: translational critique of habit and compulsion theory.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020
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  15. Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying habitual and compulsive drug seeking.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2018
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  17. Are Cocaine-Seeking "Habits" Necessary for the Development of Addiction-Like Behavior in Rats?The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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  20. Pathological Overeating: Emerging Evidence for a Compulsivity Construct.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Briac HalboutDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA; UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience, Irvine, CA, USA.
Angela T LiuDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA; UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience, Irvine, CA, USA.
Sean B OstlundDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA; UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience, Irvine, CA, USA.

Funding

Cocaine-Seeking and the Transfer of Behavioral ControlR01DA029035 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI OSTLUND, SEAN BJORN · 2011 to 2015
$1.5M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA029035
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been proposed that compulsive drug seeking reflects an underlying dysregulation in adaptive behavior that favors habitual (automatic and inflexible) over goal-directed (deliberative and highly flexible) action selection. Rodent studies have established that repeated exposure to cocaine or amphetamine facilitates the development of habits, producing behavior that becomes unusually insensitive to a reduction in the value of its outcome. The current study more directly investigated the effects of cocaine pre-exposure on goal-directed learning and action selection using an approach that discourages habitual performance. After undergoing a 15-day series of cocaine (15 or 30 mg/kg, i.p.) or saline injections and a drug withdrawal period, rats were trained to perform two different lever-press actions for distinct reward options. During a subsequent outcome devaluation test, both cocaine- and saline-treated rats showed a robust bias in their choice between the two actions, preferring whichever action had been trained with the reward that retained its value. Thus, it appears that the tendency for repeated cocaine exposure to promote habit formation does not extend to a more complex behavioral scenario that encourages goal-directed control. To further explore this issue, we assessed how prior cocaine treatment would affect the rats' ability to learn about a selective reduction in the predictive relationship between one of the two actions and its outcome, which is another fundamental feature of goal-directed behavior. Interestingly, we found that cocaine-treated rats showed enhanced, rather than diminished, sensitivity to this action-outcome contingency degradation manipulation. Given their mutual dependence on striatal dopamine signaling, we suggest that cocaine's effects on habit formation and contingency learning may stem from a common adaptation in this neurochemical system.

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choicecognitive controlcontingency degradationgoal-directedhabit learningoutcome devaluationratsensitization

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PMID27047400
PMCPMC4800177

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