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Addiction: failure of control over maladaptive incentive habits.

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It is hypothesized that these incentive habits result from a pathological coupling of drug-influenced motivational states and a rigid stimulus-response habit system by which drug-associated stimuli through automatic processes elicit and maintain drug seeking.
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This article is published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.The article was published on 2013-08-01. It has received 232 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Addiction & Nucleus accumbens.

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Goal-Directed and Habitual Control in Human Substance Use: State of the Art and Future Directions

TL;DR: Theories of addiction posit a deficit in goal-directed behavior and an increased propensity toward habitual actions in individuals with substance use disorders as mentioned in this paper , and the existing paradigms that aim to evaluate them.
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Alcohol consumption preferentially activates a subset of pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) producing neurons targeting the amygdala.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored ArcN POMC neuronal activation following alcohol consumption to determine whether activation varied within subsets of ArcN pOMC projection neurons targeting different reward-related areas.
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Could the link between drug addiction in adulthood and substance use in adolescence result from a blurring of the boundaries between incentive and hedonic processes

TL;DR: It is argued that the age of onset is a major risk factor in the development of substance use disorder due to a blurring of the boundaries between incentive and hedonic processes, which occurs during adolescence.
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The Basolateral amygdala → Nucleus Accumbens core circuit mediates the conditioned reinforcing effects of cocaine-paired cues on cocaine seeking

TL;DR: Data demonstrate that the acquisition of cue-controlled cocaine seeking that depends on the conditioned reinforcing effects of cocaine cues require activity in the direct projections from the basolateral amygdala to the nucleus accumbens core.

Intracellular Mechanisms Associated with Cocaine Induced Conditioned Place Preference

TL;DR: Intacellular responses after cocaine-induced conditioned place preference (CPP) in response to two doses of cocaine after reexposure to an environment previously associated with cocaine or a control environment are investigated to suggest that NAc ERK phosphorylation may be involved with retrieving the contextual information of a cocaine-association, without the expression of the behavior.
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The neural basis of drug craving: An incentive-sensitization theory of addiction

TL;DR: S sensitization of incentive salience can produce addictive behavior even if the expectation of drug pleasure or the aversive properties of withdrawal are diminished and even in the face of strong disincentives, including the loss of reputation, job, home and family.
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Neurocircuitry of Addiction

TL;DR: The delineation of the neurocircuitry of the evolving stages of the addiction syndrome forms a heuristic basis for the search for the molecular, genetic, and neuropharmacological neuroadaptations that are key to vulnerability for developing and maintaining addiction.
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Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from actions to habits to compulsion

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that the change from voluntary drug use to more habitual and compulsive drug use represents a transition at the neural level from prefrontal cortical to striatal control over drug seeking and drug taking behavior as well as a progression from ventral to more dorsal domains of the striatum, involving its dopaminergic innervation.
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The Neural Basis of Addiction: A Pathology of Motivation and Choice

TL;DR: Cellular adaptations in prefrontal glutamatergic innervation of the accumbens promote the compulsive character of drug seeking in addicts by decreasing the value of natural rewards, diminishing cognitive control (choice), and enhancing glutamatorgic drive in response to drug-associated stimuli.
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