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ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2020

Molecular and circuit mechanisms regulating cocaine memory.

Brooke N Bender, Mary M Torregrossa

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Review in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brooke N BenderDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 450 Technology Drive, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3296-6144
Mary M TorregrossaDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 450 Technology Drive, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219, USA. torregrossam@upmc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2083-0231
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Predoctorial Training in Basic NeuroscienceT32NS007433 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI MERINEY, STEPHEN D · 1998 to 2022
$8.0M
Mechanisms Regulating Cocaine Memory StrengthR01DA042029 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI TORREGROSSA, MARY M · 2016 to 2021
$1.8M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA042029NIDA NIH HHS R01DA042029NIH HHS T32NS007433NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS007433
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Risk of relapse is a major challenge in the treatment of substance use disorders. Several types of learning and memory mechanisms are involved in substance use and have implications for relapse. Associative memories form between the effects of drugs and the surrounding environmental stimuli, and exposure to these stimuli during abstinence causes stress and triggers drug craving, which can lead to relapse. Understanding the neural underpinnings of how these associations are formed and maintained will inform future advances in treatment practices. A large body of research has expanded our knowledge of how associative memories are acquired and consolidated, how they are updated through reactivation and reconsolidation, and how competing extinction memories are formed. This review will focus on the vast literature examining the mechanisms of cocaine Pavlovian associative memories with an emphasis on the molecular memory mechanisms and circuits involved in the consolidation, reconsolidation, and extinction of these memories. Additional research elucidating the specific signaling pathways, mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, and epigenetic regulation of gene expression in the circuits involved in associative learning will reveal more distinctions between consolidation, reconsolidation, and extinction learning that can be applied to the treatment of substance use disorders.

Indexed as

AmygdalaAnimalsCocaineHippocampusHumansInteroceptionMemorySubstance-Related DisordersCocaineAddictionConsolidationExtinctionLearningReconsolidation

Identifiers

PMID32172301
PMCPMC7492456
OpenAlexW3011381916

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