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ReviewNeuropharmacology2017

Cortical and amygdalar neuronal ensembles in alcohol seeking, drinking and withdrawal.

Olivier George, Bruce T Hope

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Review in Neuropharmacology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Neural Circuitries and Alcohol Use Disorder: Cutting Corners in the Cycle.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025
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  11. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ESCALATION OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Olivier GeorgeDepartment of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Electronic address: ogeorge@scripps.edu.
Bruce T HopeNational Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
National Institutes of Health · USScripps Research Institute · US

Funding

Characterization of neuronal ensembles activated during drug-induced behaviorZIADA000467 · NIDA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE · PI HOPE, BRUCE · 2009 to 2025
$35.8M
Medication Development for Protracted Abstinence in AlcoholismR01AA012602 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI MASON, BARBARA J · 1999 to 2016
$10.5M
Identification of Genetic Variants that Contribute to Compulsive Cocaine Intakein RatsU01DA043799 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Olivier George, Abraham A Palmer · 2017 to 2026
$7.9M
SYSTEMIC NEUROPHARMACOLOGYP50AA006420 · NIAAA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI KOOB, GEORGE F · 1985 to 2002
$5.1M
Alcohol Vapor Self-Administration in RatsR01AA022977 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Olivier George · 2014 to 2026
$5.1M
NEURONAL SUBSTRATES OF COCAINE REWARDR01DA004398 · NIDA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI GEORGE, OLIVIER · 1987 to 2014
$4.9M
NEUROPHARMACOLOGY OF ETHANOL REINFORCEMENTR01AA008459 · NIAAA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI GEORGE, OLIVIER · 1990 to 2013
$4.2M
The Role of Brain Stress Systems in the Prefrontal Cortex in Compulsive DrinkingR01AA020608 · NIAAA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI GEORGE, OLIVIER · 2011 to 2015
$1.8M
Effect of Exposure to Nicotine Vapor on the Vulnerability to Nicotine DependenceR21DA036691 · NIDA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI GEORGE, OLIVIER · 2014 to 2016
$530k
NIAAA NIH HHS P50 AA006420NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA008459NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA012602NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA020608NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA022977NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA004398NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA036691NIDA NIH HHS U01 DA043799
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alcohol induces many alterations in the brain that are thought to contribute to alcohol addiction. Most of the known alterations are induced in all neurons of a brain area or all neurons of a given cell type, regardless of whether they were activated during behavior. While these alterations can have important modulatory effects on behavior, they cannot explain why animals respond specifically to alcohol-paired cues as opposed to all other non-paired cues and evoke highly specific goal-directed learned responses in models of drug craving. As an alternative, we hypothesize another class of alterations that are induced only within sparsely distributed patterns of neurons, called neuronal ensembles, that are selectively activated by alcohol-specific cues during behavior and encode the long-term memories underlying these learned behaviors in animal models of alcohol addiction. Here we review recent studies and techniques used to identify the role of neuronal ensembles in animal models of different phases of the alcohol addiction cycle. This article is part of the Special Issue entitled "Alcoholism".

Indexed as

Alcohol DrinkingDrug-Seeking BehaviorAlcoholismAmygdalaAnimalsCerebral CortexCuesEthanolMemoryNeuronsSubstance Withdrawal SyndromeEthanolAddictionAlcoholismCeACell assemblyDaun02EthanolPrefrontalReinstatementWithdrawal

Identifiers

PMID28435008
PMCPMC5512851
OpenAlexW2606302610

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