ReviewLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2018
Synaptic plasticity mechanisms common to learning and alcohol use disorder.
Review in Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2018. 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.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
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.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Bad habits-good goals? Meta-analysis and translation of the habit construct to alcoholism.Translational psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Chronic Alcohol Exposure Alters Expression of GluN3A-NMDA Receptors in Adult VTA DA Neurons.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- BDNF restores impaired long-term potentiation of GABAergic synapses induced by chronic ethanol exposure in the VTA and attenuates reward-seeking behavior.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Cross-Species evidence for hippocampal CACNA1C as a therapeutic target for alcohol use disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Article
- Omega-3 Fatty Acids Mitigate Long-Lasting Disruption of the Endocannabinoid System in the Adult Mouse Hippocampus Following Adolescent Binge Drinking.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Alcohol consumption does not impact delta and kappa opioid receptor-mediated synaptic depression in dorsolateral striatum of adult male mice.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Striatonigral direct pathway 2-arachidonoylglycerol contributes to ethanol effects on synaptic transmission and behavior.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Putative roles for homeostatic plasticity in epileptogenesis.Epilepsia · 2023Review
- Research on Xiaoyao Powder in the treatment of depression based on epigenetics and quality markers.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Longitudinal change of inhibitory control functional connectivity associated with the development of heavy alcohol drinking.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Synaptic effects of ethanol on striatal circuitry: therapeutic implications for dystonia.The FEBS journal · 2022Review
- Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy for Substance Use Disorders and Potential Mechanisms of Action.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2022Article
- Chronic alcohol exposure during critical developmental periods differentially impacts persistence of deficits in cognitive flexibility and related circuitry.International review of neurobiology · 2021Review
- Effects of Ethanol on Synaptic Plasticity and NMDA Currents in the Juvenile Rat Dentate Gyrus.Brain plasticity (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2020Article
- Synaptic Plasticity and its Modulation by Alcohol.Brain plasticity (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2020Review
- Acute Ethanol Exposure Enhances Synaptic Plasticity in the Dorsal Striatum in Adult Male and Female Rats.Brain plasticity (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2020Article
- Differential sensitivity of human neurons carrying μ opioid receptor (MOR) N40D variants in response to ethanol.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Overexpression Regulates Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity and Decreases Alcohol Consumption and Preference in Mice.Neurochemical research · 2020Article
- Intermittent ethanol exposure during adolescence impairs cannabinoid type 1 receptor-dependent long-term depression and recognition memory in adult mice.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Alcohol use disorders include drinking problems that span a range from binge drinking to alcohol abuse and dependence. Plastic changes in synaptic efficacy, such as long-term depression and long-term potentiation are widely recognized as mechanisms involved in learning and memory, responses to drugs of abuse, and addiction. In this review, we focus on the effects of chronic ethanol (EtOH) exposure on the induction of synaptic plasticity in different brain regions. We also review findings indicating that synaptic plasticity occurs in vivo during EtOH exposure, with a focus on ex vivo electrophysiological indices of plasticity. Evidence for effects of EtOH-induced or altered synaptic plasticity on learning and memory and EtOH-related behaviors is also reviewed. As this review indicates, there is much work needed to provide more information about the molecular, cellular, circuit, and behavioral consequences of EtOH interactions with synaptic plasticity mechanisms.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.