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ReviewThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2021

Silent Synapses in Cocaine-Associated Memory and Beyond.

William J Wright, Yan Dong

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Review in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Synaptic plasticity in cocaine-seeking ensembles of the nucleus accumbens core.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  2. The neuroimmune-glutamate hypothesis of addiction.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2026
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  3. Refinement of Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Dynamics during Cocaine Self-Administration Training.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  10. The mesolimbic reward pathway is necessary for disruptions in cocaine-seeking behavior following mediated devaluation.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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  12. The biology of addiction.Science signaling · 2025
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  18. Membrane excitability of nucleus accumbens neurons gates the incubation of cocaine craving.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

William J WrightDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 william.wright@pitt.edu yandong@pitt.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0835-6362
Yan DongDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 william.wright@pitt.edu yandong@pitt.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0016-9028

Funding

Glial-mediated synaptic remodeling in drug addictionR01DA040620 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Yan Dong, ERIC J. NESTLER · 2016 to 2026
$5.3M
Cocaine-induced adaptation in NMDA receptorsR37DA023206 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Yan Dong · 2018 to 2026
$3.9M
Cocaine-induced Adaptation in NMDA Receptors in Nucleus AccumbensR01DA023206 · NIDA · WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI DONG, YAN · 2008 to 2017
$3.0M
Interaction of Glutamatergic Inputs to Nucleus AccumbensR21DA051010 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI DONG, YAN · 2020 to 2021
$431k
Circuitry Progression of Cocaine-induced Cellular AdaptationR21DA047861 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI DONG, YAN · 2019 to 2020
$430k
Fast-spiking interneurons in the Nucleus Accumbens and cue-induced cocaine seekingF31DA043940 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WRIGHT, WILLIAM JAMES · 2018 to 2021
$161k
NIDA NIH HHS F31 DA043940NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA023206NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA040620NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA047861NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA051010NIDA NIH HHS R37 DA023206
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glutamatergic synapses are key cellular sites where cocaine experience creates memory traces that subsequently promote cocaine craving and seeking. In addition to making across-the-board synaptic adaptations, cocaine experience also generates a discrete population of new synapses that selectively encode cocaine memories. These new synapses are glutamatergic synapses that lack functionally stable AMPARs, often referred to as AMPAR-silent synapses or, simply, silent synapses. They are generated

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalAnimalsCocaine-Related DisordersHumansMemoryNeuronal PlasticitySynapses

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PMID34759051
PMCPMC8580149

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