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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2019

Compulsive Alcohol Seeking Results from a Failure to Disengage Dorsolateral Striatal Control over Behavior.

Chiara Giuliano, David Belin, Barry J Everitt

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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59citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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59 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chiara GiulianoBehavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom.
David BelinBehavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-7383-372X
Barry J EverittBehavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom bje10@cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-4431-6536
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Rodents with Genetic Differences in Alcohol PreferenceR24AA015512 · NIAAA · INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS · PI BELL, RICHARD LOWELL · 2005 to 2014
$5.1M
Medical Research Council MR/N02530X/1NIAAA NIH HHS R24 AA015512
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The acquisition of drug, including alcohol, use is associated with activation of the mesolimbic dopamine system. However, over the course of drug exposure the control over drug seeking progressively devolves to anterior dorsal striatum (aDLS) dopamine-dependent mechanisms. The causal importance of this functional recruitment of aDLS in the switch from controlled to compulsive drug use in vulnerable individuals remains to be established. Here we tested the hypothesis that individual differences in the susceptibility to aDLS dopamine-dependent control over alcohol seeking predicts and underlies the development of compulsive alcohol seeking. Male alcohol-preferring rats, the alcohol-preferring phenotype of which was confirmed in an intermittent two-bottle choice procedure, were implanted bilaterally with cannulae above the aDLS and trained instrumentally on a seeking-taking chained schedule of alcohol reinforcement until some individuals developed compulsive seeking behavior. The susceptibility to aDLS dopamine control over behavior was investigated before and after the development of compulsivity by measuring the extent to which bilateral aDLS infusions of the dopamine receptor antagonist α-flupenthixol (0, 5, 10, and 15 μg/side) decreased alcohol seeking at different stages of training, as follows: (1) after acquisition of instrumental taking responses for alcohol; (2) after alcohol-seeking behavior was well established; and (3) after the development of punishment-resistant alcohol seeking. Only alcohol-seeking, not alcohol-taking, responses became dependent on aDLS dopamine. Further, marked individual differences in the susceptibility of alcohol seeking to aDLS dopamine receptor blockade actually predicted the vulnerability to develop compulsive alcohol seeking, but only in subjects dependent on aDLS dopamine-dependent control.

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Drug-Seeking BehaviorAlcoholismAnimalsCompulsive BehaviorCorpus StriatumDopamineDopamine AntagonistsFlupenthixolMaleRatsRewardDopamineDopamine AntagonistsFlupenthixoladdictionalcoholcompulsivitydopamineseekingstriatum

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PMID30617206
PMCPMC6391574
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