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

Animal Models of (or for) Aggression Reward, Addiction, and Relapse: Behavior and Circuits.

Sam A Golden, Michelle Jin, Yavin Shaham

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Review 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 57 papers.

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57citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from 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.

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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 120 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. Sexual Dimorphism in c-Fos Networks Governing Aggression.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  4. Dopamine modulation of aggression.Psychopharmacology · 2026
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  10. Human brain organoids for understanding substance use disorders.Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics · 2025
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  13. Delineating Adaptive and Maladaptive Outcomes of Aggression in Mice.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025
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  16. Neurobiology of Stress-Induced Nicotine Relapse.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  17. Psychostimulants and social behaviors.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sam A GoldenIntramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, and sagolden@uw.edu yshaham@intra.nida.nih.gov.ORCID 0000-0002-2104-2272
Michelle JinIntramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, and.ORCID 0000-0002-8696-1958
Yavin ShahamIntramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, and sagolden@uw.edu yshaham@intra.nida.nih.gov.ORCID 0000-0002-8242-3319
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Neurobiology Of Relapse To Opiate and Psychostimulant DrugsZIADA000434 · NIDA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE · PI SHAHAM, YAVIN · 2009 to 2025
$39.8M
Role of the nucleus accumbens in regulating aggression reward.FI2GM117583 · NIGMS · U.S. NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE · PI GOLDEN, SAM · 2016 to 2016
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NIDA NIH HHS K99 DA045662NIGMS NIH HHS FI2 GM117583
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inappropriate and pathological aggression plays a leading role in the suffering and death of millions of people, and further places an untenable strain on the caregivers and families of those afflicted. In some cases, such as addictive drugs, aggression can be highly rewarding (appetitive) and continually pursued despite short- and long-term negative consequences. Similarly, recidivism (relapse) rates for repeat violent offenders are as high as relapse rates for drug addicts. Appetitive aggression and relapse to aggression seeking can be modeled in mice studies using conditioned place preference and self-administration procedures followed by a period of abstinence and subsequent tests for relapse to aggression preference and aggression seeking. These procedures allow for the study of the mechanisms that control the appetitive versus the consummatory (attack) phases of aggressive behavior. In this review, we first discuss the behavioral procedures developed to probe appetitive aggression in mouse models, spanning from Pavlovian to operant tasks, and we also describe the recently proposed phenomenon of "aggression addiction." Next, we discuss the pharmacological and circuit mechanisms of aggression conditioned place preference and aggression self-administration, seeking, and relapse, highlighting mechanistic congruence and divergence between appetitive and consummatory phases of aggression. We conclude by discussing clinical implications of the studies reviewed.

Indexed as

AggressionBehavior, AddictiveDisease Models, AnimalRewardAnimalsMiceRecurrence

Identifiers

PMID30833504
PMCPMC6529864
OpenAlexW2919877591

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