ArticleNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2019
Endocannabinoid control of the insular-bed nucleus of the stria terminalis circuit regulates negative affective behavior associated with alcohol abstinence.
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Neural Mechanisms of Anxiety During Early and Protracted Abstinence in Alcohol Use Disorder
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67 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 95 citations in OpenAlex.
- Anxiety during abstinence from alcohol: A systematic review of rodent and human evidence for the anterior insula's role in the abstinence network.Addiction biology · 2021Pooled it
- Drinking reduction during cognitive behavioral therapy for alcohol use disorder is associated with a reduction in anterior insula-bed nucleus of the stria terminalis resting-state functional connectivity.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Trial
- Alcohol abstinence precipitates alcohol seeking and aversion-resistant intake in association with increased BNST activity.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Comparative insights into insula structure and function.Nature neuroscience · 2026Review
- From Efference Copy to Emotional State: Insular Cortex Somatostatin Neurons Buffer Adaptive Responses to Physical Stress.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Insular Somatostatin Interneurons Are Targeted by Motor Cortex Efferents and Modulate Affective States.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Individual differences in ethanol drinking meal structure are shaped by social environments.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The S1-insula Circuit Differentially Modulates Alcohol Drinking and Aversive Behavior in Mice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Association of stress-sensitive mid-insula activity with alcohol drinking and negative affect-like behavior during abstinence in mice.Neuropharmacology · 2026Article
- Single prolonged stress in mice: interactions between alcohol drinking, negative affect, and fear learning.Psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Adolescent onset of volitional ethanol intake normalizes sex differences observed with adult-onset ethanol intake and negative affective behaviors during protracted forced abstinence.Psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Alcohol Withdrawal Alters the Inhibitory Landscape of the Prelimbic Cortex in an Interneuron- and Sex-specific Manner.Addiction neuroscience · 2025Article
- Ex Vivo Modulation of the BNST by Parabrachial CGRP Projections Is Decreased After a History of Stress-Induced Anxiety.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Regulation of addiction by the insular cortex: The interplay between interoception and cognitive function.iScience · 2025Review
- Expression of Dynorphin and Kappa-Opioid Receptors in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis: Focus on Adolescent Development.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Social Exclusion Amplifies Behavioral Responses to Physical Pain via Insular Neuromodulation.Research square · 2025Article
- Social Exclusion Amplifies Behavioral Responses to Physical Pain via Insular Neuromodulation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Effects of chronic ethanol exposure on dorsal medial striatal neurons receiving convergent inputs from the orbitofrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala.Neuropharmacology · 2025Article
- Operant ethanol self-administration behaviors do not predict sex differences in continuous access home cage drinking.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Neural Circuitries and Alcohol Use Disorder: Cutting Corners in the Cycle.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
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Abstract
Negative affect is a core symptom domain associated with an array of neurological and psychiatric disorders and is only partially targeted by current therapies, highlighting the need for better, more targeted treatment options. This study focuses on negative affective symptoms associated with prolonged alcohol abstinence, one of the leading causes of relapse. Using a mouse model of chronic alcohol consumption followed by forced abstinence (CDFA), prolonged alcohol abstinence increased c-fos expression and spontaneous glutamatergic neurotransmission in the dorsal bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (dBNST), a region heavily implicated in negative affect in both humans and rodents. Further, pharmacologically enhancing endogenous cannabinoids (eCB) with JZL184 prevents abstinence-induced increases in dBNST neuronal activity, underscoring the therapeutic potential of drugs targeting the brain's eCB system. Next, we used a channelrhodopsin-assisted mapping strategy to identify excitatory inputs to the dBNST that could contribute to CDFA-induced negative affect. We identified the insular cortex (insula), a region involved in regulating interoception, as a dense, functional, eCB-sensitive input to the dBNST. Using a chemogenetic strategy to locally mimic eCB signaling, we demonstrate that the insula strongly influences the CDFA behavioral phenotype and dBNST neuronal activity. Lastly, we used an anterograde strategy for transynaptic targeting of Cre expression in combination with a G
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