ReviewPharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior2020
Environmental enrichment reduces food seeking and taking in rats: A review.
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- Environmental Enrichment Suppresses Food Seeking and Increases Inhibitory Interneuron Excitability While Decreasing Corticothalamic Neuronal Recruitment in the Prelimbic Cortex.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the Effects of Enlarged Housing on Social Play and Reward Seeking in Rats.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- To indulge or enrich: how environmental enrichment affects neurons that promote food seeking.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Prelimbic cortical excitatory overdrive and inhibitory underdrive accompany environmental suppression of food seeking.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Food seeking suppression by environmental enrichment accompanies cell type- and circuit-specific prelimbic cortical modulation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Prelimbic cortical excitatory overdrive and inhibitory underdrive accompany environmental suppression of food seeking.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Sex differences in motivation to take sucrose following abstinence and environmental enrichment in Long-Evans rats.Physiology & behavior · 2025Article
- Environmental enrichment for laboratory rats and mice: endocrine, physiological, and behavioral benefits of meeting rodents' biological needs.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- Environmental Enrichment during Abstinence Reduces Oxycodone Seeking and c-Fos Expression in a Subpopulation of Medial Prefrontal Cortex Neurons.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- Increased sucrose consumption in mice gene-targeted forFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2023Article
- Behavioral effects of environmental enrichment on male and female wistar rats with early life stress experiences.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Food reinforcement and habituation to food are processes related to initiation and cessation of eating.Physiology & behavior · 2021Review
- Acute, but not longer-term, exposure to environmental enrichment attenuates Pavlovian cue-evoked conditioned approach and Fos expression in the prefrontal cortex in mice.The European journal of neuroscience · 2021Article
- Incubation of Oxycodone Craving Following Adult-Onset and Adolescent-Onset Oxycodone Self-Administration in Male Rats.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Effects of Social Isolation on Perineuronal Nets in the Amygdala Following a Reward Omission Task in Female Rats.Molecular neurobiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Environmental enrichment (EE) for rodents is generally defined as providing subjects with an environment enhanced with access to conspecifics, novel and tactile stimuli, and in many preparations, more space. EE exposure, in particular as an "intervention" in adult rodents, decreases food and drug seeking and taking. This review focuses on the reduction of sucrose seeking and taking in rats assessed in operant-based procedures. The operant-based model provides a means to evaluate addiction-related behaviors. Findings using the model might translate to clinically-relevant addiction behaviors directed towards both drugs and food. Both overnight (acute) and one month (chronic) EE effects on behavior are described, including a recent evaluation of the persistence of EE effects following its removal. EE effects on neurobiology related to sucrose seeking using the model are outlined, with a special emphasis on meso-cortico-limbic terminals. Overall, our working hypothesis for how EE reduces sucrose seeking and taking is that EE alters processing of incentive valence. This may also be accompanied by changes in learning and affect. Anti-seeking and anti-taking effects of EE have translational implications for the prevention and treatment of both drug addiction and food-focused behaviors ("food addiction").
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