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Agoitia A, Cruz-Sanchez A, Balderas I, Bermúdez-Rattoni F. The anterior insula and its projection to amygdala nuclei modulate the abstinence-exacerbated expression of conditioned place preference. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2024; 241:445-459. [PMID: 38010515 PMCID: PMC10884150 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-023-06499-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/05/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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RATIONALE Relapse into substance use is often triggered by exposure to drug-related environmental cues. The magnitude of drug seeking depends on the duration of abstinence, a phenomenon known as the incubation of drug craving. Clinical and preclinical research shows that the insular cortex is involved in substance use disorders and cue-induced drug seeking. However, the role of the insula on memory retrieval and motivational integration for cue-elicited drug seeking remains to be determined. OBJECTIVES We investigated the role of the anterior insular cortex (aIC) and its glutamatergic projection to amygdala nuclei (aIC-AMY) on the expression of conditioned place preference (CPP) during early and late abstinence. METHODS Male adult C57BL/6J mice underwent amphetamine-induced CPP, and their preference was tested following 1 or 14 days of abstinence. aIC and aIC-AMY functional role in CPP expression was assessed at both abstinence periods by employing optogenetic silencing and behavioral pharmacology. RESULTS Compared to a single day, an exacerbated preference for the amphetamine-paired context was observed after 14 days of abstinence. Photoinhibition of either aIC or aIC-AMY projection reduced CPP expression following late but not early abstinence. Similarly, the antagonism of aIC NMDA receptors reduced CPP expression after 14 days of abstinence but not 1 day. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that aIC and its glutamatergic output to amygdala nuclei constitute critical neurobiological substrates mediating enhanced motivational cue reactivity during the incubation of amphetamine craving rather than contextual memory recall. Moreover, cortical NMDA receptor signaling may become sensitized during abstinence, ultimately modulating disproportioned drug seeking.
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- Andrés Agoitia
- División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico.
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Hernández-Ortiz E, Luis-Islas J, Tecuapetla F, Gutierrez R, Bermúdez-Rattoni F. Top-down circuitry from the anterior insular cortex to VTA dopamine neurons modulates reward-related memory. Cell Rep 2023; 42:113365. [PMID: 37924513 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 11/06/2023] Open
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The insular cortex (IC) has been linked to the processing of interoceptive and exteroceptive signals associated with addictive behavior. However, whether the IC modulates the acquisition of drug-related affective states by direct top-down connectivity with ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine neurons is unknown. We found that photostimulation of VTA terminals of the anterior insular cortex (aIC) induces rewarding contextual memory, modulates VTA activity, and triggers dopamine release within the VTA. Employing neuronal recordings and neurochemical and transsynaptic tagging techniques, we disclose the functional top-down organization tagging the aIC pre-synaptic neuronal bodies and identifying VTA recipient neurons. Furthermore, systemic administration of amphetamine altered the VTA excitability of neurons modulated by the aIC projection, where photoactivation enhances, whereas photoinhibition impairs, a contextual rewarding behavior. Our study reveals a key circuit involved in developing and retaining drug reward-related contextual memory, providing insight into the neurobiological basis of addictive behavior and helping develop therapeutic addiction strategies.
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- Eduardo Hernández-Ortiz
- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, División de Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City 04510, México
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology of Appetitive, Department of Pharmacology, Center of Aging Research (CIE), Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, División de Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City 04510, México
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology of Appetitive, Department of Pharmacology, Center of Aging Research (CIE), Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, División de Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City 04510, México.
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Rodríguez-Durán LF, López-Ibarra DL, Herrera-Xithe G, Bermúdez-Rattoni F, Osorio-Gómez D, Escobar ML. Synergistic photoactivation of VTA-catecholaminergic and BLA-glutamatergic projections induces long-term potentiation in the insular cortex. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2023; 205:107845. [PMID: 37865264 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2023.107845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Revised: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/23/2023]
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The presentation of novel stimuli induces a reliable dopamine release in the insular cortex (IC) from the ventral tegmental area (VTA). The novel stimuli could be associated with motivational and emotional signals induced by cortical glutamate release from the basolateral amygdala (BLA). Dopamine and glutamate are essential for acquiring and maintaining behavioral tasks, including visual and taste recognition memories. In this study, we hypothesize that the simultaneous activation of dopaminergic and glutamatergic projections to the neocortex can underlie synaptic plasticity. High-frequency stimulation of the BLA-IC circuit has demonstrated a reliable long-term potentiation (LTP), a widely acknowledged synaptic plasticity that underlies memory consolidation. Therefore, the concurrent optogenetic stimulation of the insula's glutamatergic and dopaminergic terminal fibers would induce reliable LTP. Our results confirmed that combined photostimulation of the VTA and BLA projections to the IC induces a slow-onset LTP. We also found that optogenetically-induced LTP in the IC relies on both glutamatergic NMDA receptors and dopaminergic D1/D5 receptors, suggesting that the combined effects of these neurotransmitters can trigger synaptic plasticity in the neocortex. Overall, our findings provide compelling evidence supporting the essential role of both dopaminergic and glutamatergic projections in modulating synaptic plasticity within the IC. Furthermore, our results suggest that the synergistic actions of these projections have a pivotal influence on the formation of motivational memories.
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- Luis F Rodríguez-Durán
- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM, División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico City, Mexico
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- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM, División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico City, Mexico
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- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM, División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico City, Mexico
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- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM, División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico City, Mexico
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- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM, División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico City, Mexico.
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- Facultad de Psicología, UNAM, División de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico City, Mexico.
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McGregor MS, LaLumiere RT. Still a "hidden island"? The rodent insular cortex in drug seeking, reward, and risk. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2023; 153:105334. [PMID: 37524140 PMCID: PMC10592220 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2023] [Revised: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
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The insular cortex (IC) is implicated in risky decision making and drug-seeking behaviors, in a manner dissociable from natural reward seeking. However, evidence from rodent studies of motivated behaviors suggests that the role of the IC is not always consistent across procedures. Moreover, there is evidence of dissociation of function between posterior (pIC) and anterior (aIC) subregions in these behaviors. Under which circumstances, and by which mechanisms, these IC subregions are recruited to regulate motivated behaviors remains unclear. Here, we discuss evidence of rodent pIC and aIC function across drug-related behaviors, natural reward seeking, and decision making under risk and highlight procedural differences that may account for seemingly conflicting findings. Although gaps in the literature persist, we hypothesize that IC activity is broadly important for selection of appropriate behaviors based on learned action-outcome contingencies and that associated risk is sufficient, but not necessary, to recruit the aIC in reward seeking without involving the pIC.
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- Matthew S McGregor
- Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States.
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- Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States; Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States; Iowa Neuroscience Institute, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
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Starski PA, De Oliveira Sergio T, Hopf FW. Using lickometry to infer differential contributions of salience network regions during compulsion-like alcohol drinking. ADDICTION NEUROSCIENCE 2023; 7:100102. [PMID: 38736902 PMCID: PMC11086682 DOI: 10.1016/j.addicn.2023.100102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2024]
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Alcohol use disorder extracts substantial personal, social and clinical costs, and continued intake despite negative consequences (compulsion-like consumption) can contribute strongly. Here we discuss lickometry, a simple method where lick times are determined across a session, while analysis across many aspects of licking can offer important insights into underlying psychological and action strategies, including their brain mechanisms. We first describe studies implicating anterior insula (AIC) and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (dMPF) in compulsion-like responding for alcohol, then review work suggesting that AIC/ventral frontal cortex versus dMPF regulate different aspects of behavior (oral control and overall response strategy, versus moment-to-moment action organization). We then detail our lickometer work comparing alcohol-only drinking (AOD) and compulsion-like drinking under moderate- or higher-challenge (ModChD or HiChD, using quinine-alcohol). Many studies have suggested utilization of one of two main strategies, with higher motivation indicated by more bouts, and greater palatability suggested by longer, faster bouts. Instead, ModChD shows decreased variability in many lick measures, which is unexpected but consistent with the suggested importance of automaticity for addiction. Also surprising is that HiChD retains several behavior changes seen with ModChD, reduced tongue variability and earlier bout start, even though intake is otherwise disrupted. Since AIC-related measures are retained under both moderate- and higher-challenge, we propose a novel hypothesis that AIC sustains overall commitment regardless of challenge level, while disordered licking during HiChD mirrors the effects of dMPF inhibition. Thus, while AIC provides overall drive despite challenge, the ability to act is ultimately determined within the dMPF.
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- Phillip A. Starski
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Indianapolis IN, USA
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- Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Indianapolis IN, USA
- Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indianapolis IN, USA
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Charpentier ANH, Olekanma DI, Valade CT, Reeves CA, Cho BR, Arguello AA. Influence of reconsolidation in maintenance of cocaine-associated contextual memories formed during adolescence or adulthood. Sci Rep 2023; 13:13936. [PMID: 37626103 PMCID: PMC10457301 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39949-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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Adolescents are at increased risk to develop substance use disorders and suffer from relapse throughout life. Targeted weakening of drug-associated memories has been shown to reduce relapse-like behavior in adult rats, however this process has been understudied in adolescents. We aimed to examine whether adolescent-formed, cocaine-associated memories could be manipulated via reconsolidation mechanisms. To accomplish this objective, we used an abbreviated operant cocaine self-administration paradigm (ABRV Coc-SA). Adult and adolescent rats received jugular catheterization surgery followed by ABRV Coc-SA in a distinct context for 2 h, 2×/day over 5 days. Extinction training (EXT) occurred in a second context for 2 h, 2×/day over 4 days. To retrieve cocaine-context memories, rats were exposed to the cocaine-paired context for 15 min, followed by subcutaneous injection of vehicle or the protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide (2.5 mg/kg). Two additional EXT sessions were conducted before a 2 h reinstatement test in the cocaine-paired context to assess cocaine-seeking behavior. We find that both adult and adolescent cocaine-exposed rats show similar levels of cocaine-seeking behavior regardless of post-reactivation treatment. Our results suggest that systemic treatment with the protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide does not impair reconsolidation of cocaine-context memories and subsequent relapse during adulthood or adolescence.
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- André N Herrera Charpentier
- Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Michigan State University (MSU), Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building, West Rm. 4010, 766 Service Rd., East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Michigan State University (MSU), Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building, West Rm. 4010, 766 Service Rd., East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Michigan State University (MSU), Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building, West Rm. 4010, 766 Service Rd., East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Michigan State University (MSU), Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building, West Rm. 4010, 766 Service Rd., East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Michigan State University (MSU), Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building, West Rm. 4010, 766 Service Rd., East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Michigan State University (MSU), Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building, West Rm. 4010, 766 Service Rd., East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
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Ghareh H, Alonso-Lozares I, Schetters D, Herman RJ, Heistek TS, Van Mourik Y, Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P, Zernig G, Mansvelder HD, De Vries TJ, Marchant NJ. Role of anterior insula cortex in context-induced relapse of nicotine-seeking. eLife 2022; 11:75609. [PMID: 35536612 PMCID: PMC9119676 DOI: 10.7554/elife.75609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide, and relapse during abstinence remains the critical barrier to successful treatment of tobacco addiction. During abstinence, environmental contexts associated with nicotine use can induce craving and contribute to relapse. The insular cortex (IC) is thought to be a critical substrate of nicotine addiction and relapse. However, its specific role in context-induced relapse of nicotine-seeking is not fully known. In this study, we report a novel rodent model of context-induced relapse to nicotine-seeking after punishment-imposed abstinence, which models self-imposed abstinence through increasing negative consequences of excessive drug use. Using the neuronal activity marker Fos we find that the anterior (aIC), but not the middle or posterior IC, shows increased activity during context-induced relapse. Combining Fos with retrograde labeling of aIC inputs, we show projections to aIC from contralateral aIC and basolateral amygdala exhibit increased activity during context-induced relapse. Next, we used fiber photometry in aIC and observed phasic increases in aIC activity around nicotine-seeking responses during self-administration, punishment, and the context-induced relapse tests. Next, we used chemogenetic inhibition in both male and female rats to determine whether activity in aIC is necessary for context-induced relapse. We found that chemogenetic inhibition of aIC decreased context-induced nicotine-seeking after either punishment- or extinction-imposed abstinence. These findings highlight the critical role nicotine-associated contexts play in promoting relapse, and they show that aIC activity is critical for this context-induced relapse following both punishment and extinction-imposed abstinence.
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- Hussein Ghareh
- Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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King CP, Meyer PJ. The incentive amplifying effects of nicotine: Roles in alcohol seeking and consumption. ADVANCES IN PHARMACOLOGY (SAN DIEGO, CALIF.) 2022; 93:171-218. [PMID: 35341566 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apha.2021.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Nicotine has a unique profile among drugs of abuse. To the noninitiated user, nicotine has powerful aversive effects and its relatively weak euphorigenic effects undergo rapid tolerance. Despite this, nicotine is commonly abused despite negative heath consequences, and nicotine users have enormous difficulty quitting. Further, nicotine is one of the most commonly co-abused substances, in that it is often taken in combination with other drugs. One explanation of this polydrug use is that nicotine has multiple appetitive and consummatory conditioning effects. For example, nicotine is a reinforcement enhancer in that it can potently increase the incentive value of other stimuli, including those surrounding drugs of abuse such as alcohol. In addition, nicotine also has a unique profile of neurobiological effects that alter regulation of alcohol intake and interoception. This review discusses the psychological and biological mechanisms surrounding nicotine's appetitive conditioning and consummatory effects, particularly its interactions with alcohol.
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- Christopher P King
- Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States; Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
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- Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States.
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Pribut HJ, Sciarillo XA, Roesch MR. Insula lesions reduce stimulus-driven control of behavior during odor-guided decision-making and autoshaping. Brain Res 2022; 1785:147885. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2022.147885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Revised: 03/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The role of the anterior insular during targeted helping behavior in male rats. Sci Rep 2022; 12:3315. [PMID: 35228625 PMCID: PMC8885669 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-07365-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Empathy, the understanding of the emotional state of others, can be examined across species using the Perception Action Model, where shared affect promotes an action by “Observers” to aid a distressed “Target”. The anterior insula (AI) has garnered interest in empathic behavior due to its role integrating sensory and emotional information of self and other. In the following studies, the AI was inhibited pharmacologically and chemogenetically during targeted helping. We demonstrate the insula is active during, and is necessary for the maintenance of, targeted helping. Analysis of ultrasonic vocalizations revealed distress calls from Targets increased when Observers’ helping was attenuated due to insula inhibition. Targets’ elevated distress was directly correlated to Observers’ diminished helping behavior, suggesting emotional transfer between Observer and Target is blunted following Observer AI inhibition. Finally, the AI may selectively blunt targeted helping, as social exploration did not change in a social reward place conditioning task. These studies help further establish the anterior insula as a critical node in the empathic brain during targeted helping, even in the absence of direct social contact.
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Pintori N, Piva A, Guardiani V, Decimo I, Chiamulera C. Brief Environmental Enrichment exposure enhances contextual-induced sucrose-seeking with and without memory reactivation in rats. Behav Brain Res 2022; 416:113556. [PMID: 34474039 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Revised: 07/21/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Chronic Environmental Enrichment (EE) has been shown to prevent the relapse to addictive behaviours, such as drug-taking and -seeking. Recently, acute EE was shown to reduce cue-induced sucrose-seeking, but its effects on contextual (Cx)-induced sucrose-seeking is still unknown. Here we report the effects of brief EE exposure on Cx-induced sucrose-seeking with and without prior Cx-memory reactivation. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were trained to sucrose self-administration associated to a specific conditioning Cx (CxA), followed by a 7-day extinction in a different Cx (CxB). Afterwards, rats were exposed for 22 h to EE, and 1 h later to either i) Cx-induced sucrose-seeking (1 h, renewal without Cx-memory reactivation), ii) or two different Cx-memory reactivations: short (2-min) and long (15-min) CxA-retrieval session (Cx-Ret). In Cx-Ret experiments, CxA-induced sucrose-seeking test (1 h) was done after a subsequent 3-day extinction phase. The assessment of molecular markers of memory reactivation/reconsolidation, Zif-268 and rpS6P, was performed 2 h after Cx-Ret. Brief EE exposure enhanced Cx-induced sucrose-seeking without and with short but not long Cx-retrieval. Moreover, EE impaired discriminative responding at test prior to long, whereas improved it with or without short Cx-retrieval. Different changes in Zif-268 and rpS6P expression induced by short vs. long Cx-Ret were correlated to behavioural data, suggesting the occurrence of different memory processes affected by EE. Our data show that brief EE exposure may differently affect subsequent appetitive relapse depending on the modality of re-exposure to conditioned context. This finding suggests caution and further studies to understand the proper conditions for the use of EE against appetitive and addiction disorders.
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- N Pintori
- Section of Pharmacology, Dept. Diagnostic & Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
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- Section of Pharmacology, Dept. Diagnostic & Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Section of Pharmacology, Dept. Diagnostic & Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Section of Pharmacology, Dept. Diagnostic & Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Section of Pharmacology, Dept. Diagnostic & Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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Reiner DJ, Shaham Y. Recent findings on the role of sensory and interoceptive-related circuits in relapse to drug seeking. Neuropsychopharmacology 2022; 47:373-374. [PMID: 34211105 PMCID: PMC8617027 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-021-01081-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- David J. Reiner
- grid.280785.00000 0004 0533 7286Postdoctoral Research Associate Training Fellow, NIGMS, Bethesda, MD USA ,grid.420090.f0000 0004 0533 7147Behavioral Neuroscience Branch, IRP/NIDA/NIH, Baltimore, MD USA
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- grid.420090.f0000 0004 0533 7147Behavioral Neuroscience Branch, IRP/NIDA/NIH, Baltimore, MD USA
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Leyrer-Jackson JM, Overby PF, Nagy EK, Olive MF. Early Life Stress Promotes Heroin Seeking But Does Not Alter the Excitability of Insular Pyramidal Cells Targeting the Nucleus Accumbens. Front Behav Neurosci 2021; 15:777826. [PMID: 34949994 PMCID: PMC8688756 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.777826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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A number of retrospective studies have demonstrated adverse childhood experiences are associated with increased vulnerability to substance use disorders, including opioid use disorders (OUDs). These adverse childhood experiences, also referred to as early life stress (ELS), can be modeled in laboratory animals by various paradigms including limited bedding and nesting (LBN) procedures. Studies using rodent models of ELS have been shown to recapitulate various aspects of OUDs, including relapse propensity and perseverance of drug-seeking behavior. In the current study, we utilized the LBN paradigm to explore potential effects on heroin self-administration, extinction, and relapse-like behaviors in male and female rats. We also utilized in vitro whole-cell electrophysiology to examine the effects of LBN and repeated heroin administration on the excitability of pyramidal neurons in the anterior insular cortex (AIC) projecting to the nucleus accumbens core (NAc), as recent studies suggest that this circuit may mediate various aspects of OUDs and may be compromised as a result of either ELS or OUDs. We observed that compared to control animals, rats exposed to LBN conditions during postnatal days 2–9 showed increased breakpoints for heroin self-administration under a progressive ratio schedule of reinforcement, impaired extinction of heroin-seeking behavior, and increased reinstatement of heroin-seeking behavior induced by heroin-associated cues. No effect of LBN rearing conditions were observed on the acquisition and maintenance of heroin self-administration, and no sex differences in heroin intake were observed. LBN and control reared animals showed no differences in the excitability of AIC-NAc pyramidal neurons, but animals treated with repeated heroin showed decreased excitability of these neurons through a significant increase in rheobase and reduction in action potentials induced by depolarizing currents. Together, these results suggest that ELS exposure produces exacerbations of heroin seeking behavior without parallel effects on AIC-NAc excitability, although heroin itself reduces the excitability of these neurons.
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- Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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Differential regulation of medium spiny and cholinergic neurons in the nucleus accumbens core by the insular and medial prefrontal cortices in the rat. Pflugers Arch 2021; 473:1911-1924. [PMID: 34724104 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-021-02634-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2021] [Revised: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The nucleus accumbens (NAc) receives cortical projections principally from the insular cortex (IC) and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Among NAc neurons, cholinergic interneurons (ChNs) regulate the activities of medium spiny neurons (MSNs), which make up ~ 95% of NAc neurons, by modulating their firing and synaptic properties. However, little is known about the synaptic mechanisms, including their cell-type-dependent corticoaccumbal projection properties and cholinergic effects on the NAc core. Here, we performed whole-cell patch-clamp recordings from NAc MSNs and ChNs in acute brain slice preparations obtained from rats that received an AAV5-hSyn-ChR2(H134R)-mCherry injection into the IC or mPFC. Light stimulation of IC or mPFC axons induced comparable phase-locked excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) in MSNs. On the other hand, ChNs showed consistent EPSCs evoked by light stimulation of mPFC axons, whereas light stimulation of IC axons evoked much smaller EPSCs, which often showed failure in ChNs. Light-evoked EPSCs were abolished by tetrodotoxin and were recovered by 4-aminopyridine, suggesting that corticoaccumbal projections monosynaptically induce EPSCs in MSNs and ChNs. Carbachol effectively suppressed the amplitude of EPSCs in MSNs and ChNs evoked by light stimulation of IC or mPFC axons and in ChNs evoked by stimulating mPFC axons. The carbachol-induced suppression was recovered by atropine or pirenzepine, while preapplication of gallamine, J104129, PD102807, or AF-DX384 did not block the carbachol-induced EPSC suppression. These results suggest that NAc MSNs and ChNs are differentially regulated by excitatory projections from the IC and mPFC and that these corticoaccumbal excitatory inputs are modulated by M1 receptor activation.
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Better living through understanding the insula: Why subregions can make all the difference. Neuropharmacology 2021; 198:108765. [PMID: 34461066 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Insula function is considered critical for many motivated behaviors, with proposed functions ranging from attention, behavioral control, emotional regulation, goal-directed and aversion-resistant responding. Further, the insula is implicated in many neuropsychiatric conditions including substance abuse. More recently, multiple insula subregions have been distinguished based on anatomy, connectivity, and functional contributions. Generally, posterior insula is thought to encode more somatosensory inputs, which integrate with limbic/emotional information in middle insula, that in turn integrate with cognitive processes in anterior insula. Together, these regions provide rapid interoceptive information about the current or predicted situation, facilitating autonomic recruitment and quick, flexible action. Here, we seek to create a robust foundation from which to understand potential subregion differences, and provide direction for future studies. We address subregion differences across humans and rodents, so that the latter's mechanistic interventions can best mesh with clinical relevance of human conditions. We first consider the insula's suggested roles in humans, then compare subregional studies, and finally describe rodent work. One primary goal is to encourage precision in describing insula subregions, since imprecision (e.g. including both posterior and anterior studies when describing insula work) does a disservice to a larger understanding of insula contributions. Additionally, we note that specific task details can greatly impact recruitment of various subregions, requiring care and nuance in design and interpretation of studies. Nonetheless, the central ethological importance of the insula makes continued research to uncover mechanistic, mood, and behavioral contributions of paramount importance and interest. This article is part of the special Issue on 'Neurocircuitry Modulating Drug and Alcohol Abuse'.
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De Oliveira Sergio T, Lei K, Kwok C, Ghotra S, Wegner SA, Walsh M, Waal J, Darevsky D, Hopf FW. The role of anterior insula-brainstem projections and alpha-1 noradrenergic receptors for compulsion-like and alcohol-only drinking. Neuropsychopharmacology 2021; 46:1918-1926. [PMID: 34168279 PMCID: PMC8429444 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-021-01071-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Revised: 06/09/2021] [Accepted: 06/12/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Compulsion-like alcohol drinking (CLAD), where consumption continues despite negative consequences, is a major obstacle to treating alcohol use disorder. The locus coeruleus area in the brainstem and norepinephrine receptor (NER) signaling in forebrain cortical regions have been implicated in adaptive responding under stress, which is conceptually similar to compulsion-like responding (adaptive responding despite the presence of stress or conflict). Thus, we examined whether anterior insula (aINS)-to-brainstem connections and alpha-1 NERs regulated compulsion-like intake and alcohol-only drinking (AOD). Halorhodopsin inhibition of aINS-brainstem significantly reduced CLAD, with no effect on alcohol-only or saccharin intake, suggesting a specific aINS-brainstem role in aversion-resistant drinking. In contrast, prazosin inhibition of alpha-1 NERs systemically reduced both CLAD and AOD. Similar to systemic inhibition, intra-aINS alpha-1-NER antagonism reduced both CLAD and AOD. Global aINS inhibition with GABAR agonists also strongly reduced both CLAD and AOD, without impacting saccharin intake or locomotion, while aINS inhibition of calcium-permeable AMPARs (with NASPM) reduced CLAD without impacting AOD. Finally, prazosin inhibition of CLAD and AOD was not correlated with each other, systemically or within aINS, suggesting the possibility that different aINS pathways regulate CLAD versus AOD, which will require further study to definitively address. Together, our results provide important new information showing that some aINS pathways (aINS-brainstem and NASPM-sensitive) specifically regulate compulsion-like alcohol consumption, while aINS more generally may contain parallel pathways promoting CLAD versus AOD. These findings also support the importance of the adaptive stress response system for multiple forms of alcohol drinking.
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- Thatiane De Oliveira Sergio
- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
- Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Nall RW, Heinsbroek JA, Nentwig TB, Kalivas PW, Bobadilla AC. Circuit selectivity in drug versus natural reward seeking behaviors. J Neurochem 2021; 157:1450-1472. [PMID: 33420731 PMCID: PMC8178159 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.15297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Substance use disorder (SUD) is characterized, in part by behavior biased toward drug use and away from natural sources of reward (e.g., social interaction, food, sex). The neurobiological underpinnings of SUDs reveal distinct brain regions where neuronal activity is necessary for the manifestation of SUD-characteristic behaviors. Studies that specifically examine how these regions are involved in behaviors motivated by drug versus natural reward allow determinations of which regions are necessary for regulating seeking of both reward types, and appraisals of novel SUD therapies for off-target effects on behaviors motivated by natural reward. Here, we evaluate studies directly comparing regulatory roles for specific brain regions in drug versus natural reward. While it is clear that many regions drive behaviors motivated by all reward types, based on the literature reviewed we propose a set of interconnected regions that become necessary for behaviors motivated by drug, but not natural rewards. The circuitry is selectively necessary for drug seeking includes an Action/Reward subcircuit, comprising nucleus accumbens, ventral pallidum, and ventral tegmental area, a Prefrontal subcircuit comprising prelimbic, infralimbic, and insular cortices, a Stress subcircuit comprising the central nucleus of the amygdala and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, and a Diencephalon circuit including lateral hypothalamus. Evidence was mixed for nucleus accumbens shell, insular cortex, and ventral pallidum. Studies for all other brain nuclei reviewed supported a necessary role in regulating both drug and natural reward seeking. Finally, we discuss emerging strategies to further disambiguate the necessity of brain regions in drug- versus natural reward-associated behaviors.
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- Rusty W. Nall
- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
- These authors share senior authorship
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
- These authors share senior authorship
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Systemic nicotine enhances opioid self-administration and modulates the formation of opioid-associated memories partly through actions within the insular cortex. Sci Rep 2021; 11:3321. [PMID: 33558613 PMCID: PMC7870813 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-81955-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Habitual use of nicotine containing products increases propensity to misuse prescription opioids and its prevalence is substantially increased in individuals currently involved in opioid-treatment programs. Nicotine enhances self-administration of many classes of drugs in rodents, though evidence for direct effects on opioids is lacking. We sought to measure the effects of nicotine pretreatment on the reinforcing efficacy of opioids in both self-administration and contextual conditioning paradigms. First, we measured the effect of systemic nicotine pretreatment on self-administration of two opioids. Additionally, we measured the degree to which systemic nicotine pretreatment impacts the formation of morphine-associated contextual memories in conditioned taste avoidance and place preference paradigms. Given the involvement of the insula in the maintenance of substance abuse, its importance in nicotine addiction, and findings that insular inactivation impairs contextual drug conditioning, we examined whether nicotine administered directly to the insula could recapitulate the effects of systemic nicotine. We demonstrate that systemic nicotine pretreatment significantly enhances opioid self-administration and alters contextual conditioning. Furthermore, intra-insula nicotine similarly altered morphine contextual conditioning by blocking the formation of taste avoidance at all three morphine doses tested (5.0, 10, and 20 mg/kg), while shifting the dose–response curve of morphine in the place preference paradigm rightward. In conclusion, these data demonstrate that nicotine facilitates opioid intake and is partly acting within the insular cortex to obfuscate aversive opiate memories while potentiating approach to morphine-associated stimuli at higher doses.
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Espitia-Bautista E, Escobar C. Addiction-like response in brain and behavior in a rat experimental model of night-eating syndrome. Appetite 2021; 161:105112. [PMID: 33453338 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Revised: 11/04/2020] [Accepted: 01/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Individuals ailing from night eating syndrome (NES) consume more than 25% of their daily food intake during the normal sleep time, delaying their sleep or waking up in the middle of the night to eat. This study explored two experimental conditions resembling NES in Wistar rats by offering palatable food during the sleep phase, alone or combined with sleep delay. Also we explored their impact on addiction-like changes in the brain and behavior. METHODS Experiment 1 explored the brain response after a first NES-like event; experiment 2 and 3 explored addiction-like behaviors c-Fos and FosB/ΔFosB in corticolimbic regions after 4 weeks exposition to NES-like conditions and after one week of withdrawal, respectively. For all 3 experiments 6 experimental groups were used: 1. Control; 2. Restricted access (1 h) to high-sugar diet (HSD) or to 3. high-fat diet (HFD); 4., Sleep delay for 4 h (SD) (from ZT0-ZT4, rats using slow rotating wheels); 5. SD + HSD; 6. SD + HFD. RESULTS A first event of eating a palatable diet with or without SD was sufficient to stimulate c-Fos and ΔFosB. Along 4 weeks of exposure to the palatable diets rats exhibited escalation and binge eating, which was highest for the HFD. At this stage, SD did not influence behavioral changes nor the neuronal response. After one-week in withdrawal, rats exhibited craving and effort to obtain their palatable diet. The brains of rats previously exposed to sleep delay maintained high levels of FosB/ΔFosB in the accumbens shell and high c-Fos activation in the insular cortex. CONCLUSIONS In our experimental models of NES-like a HFD in the sleep phase and SD are risk factors to develop binge eating and addiction-like behaviors.
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- Estefania Espitia-Bautista
- Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Anatomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, México City, Mexico
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- Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Anatomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, México City, Mexico.
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Luo YX, Huang D, Guo C, Ma YY. Limited versus extended cocaine intravenous self-administration: Behavioral effects and electrophysiological changes in insular cortex. CNS Neurosci Ther 2020; 27:196-205. [PMID: 33118700 PMCID: PMC7816201 DOI: 10.1111/cns.13469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2020] [Revised: 09/19/2020] [Accepted: 09/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Aims Limited vs extended drug exposure has been proposed as one of the key factors in determining the risk of relapse, which is the primary characteristic of addiction behaviors. The current studies were designed to explore the related behavioral effects and neuronal alterations in the insular cortex (IC), an important brain region involved in addiction. Methods Experiments started with rats at the age of 35 days, a typical adolescent stage when initial drug exposure occurs often in humans. The drug‐seeking/taking behaviors, and membrane properties and intrinsic excitability of IC pyramidal neurons were measured on withdrawal day (WD) 1 and WD 45‐48 after limited vs extended cocaine intravenous self‐administration (IVSA). Results We found higher cocaine‐taking behaviors at the late withdrawal period after limited vs extended cocaine IVSA. We also found minor but significant effects of limited but not extended cocaine exposure on the kinetics and amplitude of action potentials on WD 45, in IC pyramidal neurons. Conclusion Our results indicate potential high risks of relapse in young rats with limited but not extended drug exposure, although the adaptations detected in the IC may not be sufficient to explain the neural changes of higher drug‐taking behaviors induced by limited cocaine IVSA.
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- Yi-Xiao Luo
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.,Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience Program, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.,Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience Program, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA.,Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Chang H, Gao C, Sun K, Xiao L, Li X, Jiang S, Zhu C, Sun T, Jin Z, Wang F. Continuous High Frequency Deep Brain Stimulation of the Rat Anterior Insula Attenuates the Relapse Post Withdrawal and Strengthens the Extinction of Morphine Seeking. Front Psychiatry 2020; 11:577155. [PMID: 33173522 PMCID: PMC7591677 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.577155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) modulates the neuronal activity in specific brain circuits and has been recently considered as a promising intervention for refractory addiction. The insula cortex is the hub of interoception and is known to be involved in different aspects of substance use disorder. In the present study, we investigate the effects of continuous high frequency DBS in the anterior insula (AI) on drug-seeking behaviors and examined the molecular mechanisms of DBS action in morphine-addicted rats. Sprague-Dawley rats were trained to the morphine-conditioned place preference (CPP, day 1-8) followed by bilaterally implanted with DBS electrodes in the AI (Day 10) and recovery (Day 10-15). Continuous high-frequency (HF) -DBS (130 Hz, 150 μA, 90 μs) was applied during withdrawal (Day 16-30) or extinction sessions. CPP tests were conducted on days 16, 30, 40 during withdrawal session and several rats were used for proteomic analysis on day 30. Following the complete extinction, morphine-CPP was reinstated by a priming dose of morphine infusion (2 mg/kg). The open field and novel objective recognition tests were also performed to evaluate the DBS side effect on the locomotion and recognition memory. Continuous HF-DBS in the AI attenuated the expression of morphine-CPP post-withdrawal (Day 30), but morphine addictive behavior relapsed 10 days after the cessation of DBS (Day 40). Continuous HF-DBS reduced the period to full extinction of morphine-CPP and blocked morphine priming-induced recurrence of morphine addiction. HF-DBS in the AI had no obvious effect on the locomotor activity and novel objective recognition and did not cause anxiety-like behavior. In addition, our proteomic analysis identified eight morphine-regulated proteins in the AI and their expression levels were reversely changed by HF-DBS. Continuous HF-DBS in the bilateral anterior insula prevents the relapse of morphine place preference after withdrawal, facilitates its extinction, blocks the reinstatement induced by morphine priming and reverses the expression of morphine-regulated proteins. Our findings suggest that manipulation of insular activity by DBS could be a potential intervention to treat substance use disorder, although future research is warranted.
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- Haigang Chang
- Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Weihui, China
- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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Cho BR, Gerena J, Olekanma DI, Bal A, Charpentier ANH, Arguello AA. Role of adolescent-formed, context-drug-associations on reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior in rats. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2020; 237:2823-2833. [PMID: 32601989 PMCID: PMC8454267 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-020-05575-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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RATIONALE Drug use during adolescence results in a lifelong risk to develop substance-use disorders. Adolescent rats are less reactive to cocaine-associated cues compared with adults; however, the contribution of adolescent-formed, context-drug-associations to elicit relapse-like behavior is underexplored. Although it is known that social isolation can impact drug-seeking behavior, the effects of housing conditions on context-induced, cocaine-seeking during adolescence vs adulthood are unknown. OBJECTIVES The present study compared the effect of adolescent vs adult-formed context-drug associations under different housing conditions (pair vs single) on cocaine-seeking behavior during adolescence or adulthood. This objective was accomplished using operant cocaine self-administration (Coc-SA) under a standard, non-abbreviated (Non-ABRV) or modified abbreviated (ABRV) paradigm. METHODS In experiment 1, adolescent and adult rats received Non-ABRV Coc-SA in a distinct context (2 h, 1×/day, 10 days), and extinction training (EXT) in a second context (1 h, 1×/day, 8 days) with reinstatement test (TEST) during adulthood in the cocaine-paired context. In experiments 2 and 3, rats received all behavioral phases during adolescence or adulthood: ABRV Coc-SA (2 h, 2×/day, 5 days), EXT (1 h, 4×/day, 2 days) with TEST in a cocaine-paired or novel, unpaired context. All experiments included pair and single-housing conditions. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Age at cocaine exposure did not influence behavior in Non-ABRV or ABRV paradigms. Under Non-ABRV conditions, adolescent and adult single-housed rats had higher seeking behavior than pair housed. These data suggest that social isolation influences context-induced, cocaine-seeking regardless of age at drug exposure and provides a condensed, ABRV paradigm to investigate context-induced, cocaine-seeking behavior during adolescence.
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- Bo Ram Cho
- Psychology Dept., Michigan State University, Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building, West Rm. 4010 766 Service Rd., East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Psychology Dept., Michigan State University, Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building, West Rm. 4010 766 Service Rd., East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Psychology Dept., Michigan State University, Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building, West Rm. 4010 766 Service Rd., East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Psychology Dept., Michigan State University, Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building, West Rm. 4010 766 Service Rd., East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Psychology Dept., Michigan State University, Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building, West Rm. 4010 766 Service Rd., East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Psychology Dept., Michigan State University, Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building, West Rm. 4010 766 Service Rd., East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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Sun K, Mu Q, Chang H, Zhang C, Wang Y, Rong S, Liu S, Zuo D, He Z, Wan D, Yang H, Wang F, Sun T. Postretrieval Microinjection of Baclofen Into the Agranular Insular Cortex Inhibits Morphine-Induced CPP by Disrupting Reconsolidation. Front Pharmacol 2020; 11:743. [PMID: 32508658 PMCID: PMC7248341 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2020.00743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2019] [Accepted: 05/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Environmental cues associated with drug abuse are powerful mediators of drug craving and relapse in substance-abuse disorders. Consequently, attenuating the strength of cue-drug memories could reduce the number of factors that cause drug craving and relapse. Interestingly, impairing cue-drug memory reconsolidation is a generally accepted strategy aimed at reducing the intensity of cues that trigger drug-seeking and drug-taking behaviors. In addition, the agranular insular cortex (AI) is an important component of the neural circuits underlying drug-related memory reconsolidation. GABAB receptors (GABABRs) are potential targets for the treatment of addiction, and baclofen (BLF) is the only prototypical GABAB agonist available for application in clinical addiction treatment. Furthermore, ΔFosB is considered a biomarker for the evaluation of potential therapeutic interventions for addiction. Here, we used the morphine-induced conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm to investigate whether postretrieval microinjections of BLF into the AI could affect reconsolidation of drug-reward memory, reinstatement of CPP, and the level of ΔFosB in mice. Our results showed that BLF infused into the AI immediately following morphine CPP memory retrieval, but not 6 h postretrieval or following nonretrieval, could eliminate the expression of a morphine CPP memory. This effect persisted in a morphine-priming–induced reinstatement test, suggesting that BLF in the AI was capable of preventing the reconsolidation of the morphine CPP memory. Our results also showed that the elimination of morphine CPP memory was associated with reduced morphine-associated ΔFosB expression in the longer term. Taken together, the results of our research provide evidence to support that GABABRs in the AI have an important role in drug-cue memory reconsolidation and further our understanding of the role of the AI in drug-related learning and memory.
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- Kuisheng Sun
- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, The People's Hospital of Gaozhou, Gaozhou, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The People's Hospital of Gaozhou, Gaozhou, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The People's Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Ningxia Key Laboratory of Cerebrocranial Disease, Incubation Base of National Key Laboratory, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.,Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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Gil-Lievana E, Balderas I, Moreno-Castilla P, Luis-Islas J, McDevitt RA, Tecuapetla F, Gutierrez R, Bonci A, Bermúdez-Rattoni F. Glutamatergic basolateral amygdala to anterior insular cortex circuitry maintains rewarding contextual memory. Commun Biol 2020; 3:139. [PMID: 32198461 PMCID: PMC7083952 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0862-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Accepted: 02/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Findings have shown that anterior insular cortex (aIC) lesions disrupt the maintenance of drug addiction, while imaging studies suggest that connections between amygdala and aIC participate in drug-seeking. However, the role of the BLA → aIC pathway in rewarding contextual memory has not been assessed. Using a cre-recombinase under the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH+) promoter mouse model to induce a real-time conditioned place preference (rtCPP), we show that photoactivation of TH+ neurons induced electrophysiological responses in VTA neurons, dopamine release and neuronal modulation in the aIC. Conversely, memory retrieval induced a strong release of glutamate, dopamine, and norepinephrine in the aIC. Only intra-aIC blockade of the glutamatergic N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor accelerated rtCPP extinction. Finally, photoinhibition of glutamatergic BLA → aIC pathway produced disinhibition of local circuits in the aIC, accelerating rtCPP extinction and impairing reinstatement. Thus, activity of the glutamatergic projection from the BLA to the aIC is critical for maintenance of rewarding contextual memory.
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- Elvi Gil-Lievana
- División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, México City, Mexico
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- División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, México City, Mexico
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- División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, México City, Mexico.,Global Institutes on Addiction, 1221 Brickell Ave, Miami, FL33131, USA
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- Departamento de Farmacología, Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 07360, México City, Mexico
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- Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
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- División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, México City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Farmacología, Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 07360, México City, Mexico
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- Global Institutes on Addiction, 1221 Brickell Ave, Miami, FL33131, USA
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- División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, México City, Mexico.
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Piva A, Caffino L, Padovani L, Pintori N, Mottarlini F, Sferrazza G, Paolone G, Fumagalli F, Chiamulera C. The metaplastic effects of ketamine on sucrose renewal and contextual memory reconsolidation in rats. Behav Brain Res 2020; 379:112347. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2019] [Revised: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 11/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Sampedro-Piquero P, Ávila-Gámiz F, Moreno Fernández RD, Castilla-Ortega E, Santín LJ. The presence of a social stimulus reduces cocaine-seeking in a place preference conditioning paradigm. J Psychopharmacol 2019; 33:1501-1511. [PMID: 31542987 DOI: 10.1177/0269881119874414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND One challenge in the treatment of substance use disorders is to re-engage the interest toward non-drug-related activities. Among these activities, social interaction has had a prominent role due to its positive influence on treatment outcome. AIMS AND METHODS Our aim was to study whether the presence of a social stimulus during the cocaine-induced conditioned place preference test was able to reduce the time spent in the drug-paired compartment. For that purpose, mice were trained for four days on a conditioned place preference task with one compartment paired with cocaine and the opposite with saline. On the test day, we introduced an unfamiliar juvenile male mouse into the saline-conditioned compartment (inside a pencil cup) to analyse the animal preference towards the two rewarding stimuli (cocaine vs mouse). Additionally, to discard the possible effect of novelty, as well as the housing condition (social isolation) on social preference, we decided to include a novel object during the test session, as well as perform the same conditioned place preference protocol with a group of animals in social housing conditions. RESULTS The social stimulus was able to reduce the preference for cocaine and enhance the active interaction with the juvenile mouse (sniffing) compared to the empty pencil cup paired with the drug. The introduction of a novel object during the test session did not reduce the preference for the cocaine-paired compartment, and interestingly, the preference for the social stimulus was independent of the housing condition. c-Fos immunohistochemistry revealed a different pattern of activation based on cocaine-paired conditioning or the presence of social stimulus. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that social interaction could constitute a valuable component in the treatment of substance use disorders by reducing the salience of the drug.
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- Patricia Sampedro-Piquero
- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Malaga, Spain.,Departamento de Psicobiología y Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento, Universidad de Málaga, Malaga, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Malaga, Spain.,Departamento de Psicobiología y Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento, Universidad de Málaga, Malaga, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Malaga, Spain.,Departamento de Psicobiología y Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento, Universidad de Málaga, Malaga, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Malaga, Spain.,Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Salud Mental, Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga, Malaga, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Malaga, Spain.,Departamento de Psicobiología y Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento, Universidad de Málaga, Malaga, Spain
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Minogianis EA, Servonnet A, Filion MP, Samaha AN. Role of the orbitofrontal cortex and the dorsal striatum in incentive motivation for cocaine. Behav Brain Res 2019; 372:112026. [PMID: 31195036 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2018] [Revised: 05/30/2019] [Accepted: 06/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Drug addiction involves increased incentive motivation for drug. Intermittent access to cocaine (IntA; 5-6 minutes ON, 25-26 minutes OFF, for 5-6 hours/session) enhances motivation to take the drug. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and the dorsal striatum (DS) are part of a corticolimbic circuit that encodes incentive value and regulates reward-directed behaviour. We predicted that inactivation of the OFC, DS or both suppresses incentive motivation for cocaine after IntA experience. Male Wistar rats had IntA to cocaine (0.25 mg/kg/infusion) for 10 sessions. The rats developed a 'loading' pattern of intake, taking most of their cocaine in the first minute of each drug-available period. They also developed psychomotor sensitization to self-administered cocaine. We then measured incentive motivation for cocaine using a progressive ratio schedule of reinforcement (PR). Before some PR sessions, rats received microinfusions of a baclofen/muscimol cocktail (0.3 and 0.03 nmol/hemisphere, respectively, or saline) to temporarily inactivate the OFC or DS, or to disconnect the two regions. None of these treatments changed spontaneous locomotion in cocaine-naïve rats. However, both baclofen/muscimol and saline infusions influenced cocaine self-administration behaviour. Infusing baclofen/muscimol or saline into the OFC or into the OFC and contralateral DS decreased responding for cocaine under PR, with baclofen/muscimol and saline having similar effects, except that only OFC-DS disconnection with baclofen/muscimol slowed the pace of cocaine intake. Baclofen/muscimol or saline into the DS also reduced responding for cocaine under PR, but baclofen/muscimol was more effective. We conclude that neuronal activity in the OFC and DS might regulate incentive motivation for cocaine.
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- Ellie-Anna Minogianis
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Canada
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- Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Canada; Central Nervous System Research Group (GRSNC), Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Canada.
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Sanna A, Fattore L, Badas P, Corona G, Cocco V, Diana M. Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation of the Prefrontal Cortex in Cocaine Use Disorder: A Pilot Study. Front Neurosci 2019; 13:765. [PMID: 31402851 PMCID: PMC6670008 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Accepted: 07/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is earning a role in the therapeutic arsenal of cocaine use disorder (CUD). A widespread and still growing number of studies have reported beneficial use of repeated TMS (rTMS) in reduction of craving, intake and cue-induced craving in cocaine addicts. In spite of these encouraging findings, many issues are still unresolved such as brain area to be stimulated, laterality of the effects, coil geometry and stimulation protocols/parameters. Intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) is a more tolerable protocol administered at lower intensities and shorter intervals than conventional rTMS protocols. Yet, its effects on cocaine craving and length of abstinence in comparison with standard high frequency (10–15 Hz) protocols have never been evaluated so far. In the present paper, we describe the effect of the bilateral iTBS of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in a population (n = 25) of treatment-seeking cocaine addicts, in an outpatient setting, and compare them with 15 Hz stimulation of the same brain area (n = 22). The results indicate that iTBS produces effects on cocaine consumption and cocaine craving virtually superimposable to the 15 Hz rTMS group. Both treatments had low numbers of dropouts and similar side-effects, safety and tolerability profiles. While larger studies are warranted to confirm these observations, iTBS appears to be a valid approach to be considered in treatment-seeking cocaine addicts, especially in light of its brief duration (3 min) vs. 15 Hz stimulation (15 min). The use of iTBS would allow increasing the number of patients treated per day with current rTMS devices, thus reducing patient discomfort and hopefully reducing drop-out rates without compromising clinical effectiveness.
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- Angela Sanna
- Department of Medical Science and Public Health, Section of Neurology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Neuroscience-Cagliari, National Research Council, Cagliari, Italy
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- Department of Medical Science and Public Health, Section of Neurology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- "G. Minardi" Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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Zhang R, Jia W, Wang Y, Zhu Y, Liu F, Li B, Liu F, Wang H, Tan Q. A glutamatergic insular-striatal projection regulates the reinstatement of cue-associated morphine-seeking behavior in mice. Brain Res Bull 2019; 152:257-264. [PMID: 31351159 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2019.07.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2019] [Revised: 07/18/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Recently, the insular cortex (IC) was identified as part of the neuronal circuit responsible for the reward expectations in cue-triggered behaviours. Moreover, there are evidences that connections between the IC and the ventral striatum, particularly with the nucleus accumbens (NAc), may mediate the retrieval and performance of actions based on incentive memory. However, the precise role of the IC-NAc connections in cue-related drug-seeking behaviour remains unclear. We used the morphine-induced conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm to assess the formation and relapse of cue-related drug-seeking. cFos immunostaining was used to determine the activation of the brain regions. Chemogenetic and optogenetic methods were used to manipulate the activity of IC-to-NAc projection neurons. The result showed that neurons in IC and NAc core but not NAc shell were activated following cue-induced morphine-seeking behaviour. Negligible effect of inhibition of IC-to-NAc core projection (IC→NAc core) on morphine CPP expression, whereas chemogenetic inactivation of this projection potently blocked the reinstatement of expressed morphine CPP. Furthermore, optogenetic inhibition of glutamatergic IC→NAc core inputs significant suppressed the CPP reinstatement without significant effect on CPP expression. We demonstrated here, for the first time, that IC→NAc core glutamatergic projection is required for the reinstatement of cue-associated drug seeking behaviour in mice. The present study provide insights into modulations of relapse of cue-associated drug-seeking behaviour following repeated overexposure to opioids in humans.
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- Rui Zhang
- Department of Psychosomatic, Xijing Hospital, Air Force Medical University, China; Department of Psychiatry, Xi'an Mental Health Center, China.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Xi'an Mental Health Center, China
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- College of Forensic Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
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- College of Forensic Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Xi'an Mental Health Center, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Xi'an Mental Health Center, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Xi'an Mental Health Center, China
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- Department of Psychosomatic, Xijing Hospital, Air Force Medical University, China.
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- Department of Psychosomatic, Xijing Hospital, Air Force Medical University, China.
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Ibrahim C, Rubin-Kahana DS, Pushparaj A, Musiol M, Blumberger DM, Daskalakis ZJ, Zangen A, Le Foll B. The Insula: A Brain Stimulation Target for the Treatment of Addiction. Front Pharmacol 2019; 10:720. [PMID: 31312138 PMCID: PMC6614510 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 06/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are a growing public health concern with only a limited number of approved treatments. However, even approved treatments are subject to limited efficacy with high long-term relapse rates. Current treatment approaches are typically a combination of pharmacotherapies and behavioral counselling. Growing evidence and technological advances suggest the potential of brain stimulation techniques for the treatment of SUDs. There are three main brain stimulation techniques that are outlined in this review: transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and deep brain stimulation (DBS). The insula, a region of the cerebral cortex, is known to be involved in critical aspects underlying SUDs, such as interoception, decision making, anxiety, pain perception, cognition, mood, threat recognition, and conscious urges. This review focuses on both the preclinical and clinical evidence demonstrating the role of the insula in addiction, thereby demonstrating its promise as a target for brain stimulation. Future research should evaluate the optimal parameters for brain stimulation of the insula, through the use of relevant biomarkers and clinical outcomes for SUDs.
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- Christine Ibrahim
- Translational Addiction Research Laboratory, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Translational Addiction Research Laboratory, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Qunuba Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Ironstone Product Development, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Life Sciences and the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Translational Addiction Research Laboratory, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Addictions Division, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Alcohol Research and Treatment Clinic, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Nawarawong NN, Slaker M, Muelbl M, Shah AS, Chiariello R, Nelson LD, Budde MD, Stemper BD, Olsen CM. Repeated blast model of mild traumatic brain injury alters oxycodone self-administration and drug seeking. Eur J Neurosci 2018; 50:2101-2112. [PMID: 30456793 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Revised: 10/30/2018] [Accepted: 11/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Each year, traumatic brain injuries (TBI) affect millions worldwide. Mild TBIs (mTBI) are the most prevalent and can lead to a range of neurobehavioral problems, including substance abuse. A single blast exposure, inducing mTBI alters the medial prefrontal cortex, an area implicated in addiction, for at least 30 days post injury in rats. Repeated blast exposures result in greater physiological and behavioral dysfunction than single exposure; however, the impact of repeated mTBI on addiction is unknown. In this study, the effect of mTBI on various stages of oxycodone use was examined. Male Sprague Dawley rats were exposed to a blast model of mTBI once per day for 3 days. Rats were trained to self-administer oxycodone during short (2 h) and long (6 h) access sessions. Following abstinence, rats underwent extinction and two cued reinstatement sessions. Sham and rbTBI rats had similar oxycodone intake, extinction responding and cued reinstatement of drug seeking. A second group of rats were trained to self-administer oxycodone with varying reinforcement schedules (fixed ratio (FR)-2 and FR-4). Under an FR-2 schedule, rbTBI-exposed rats earned fewer reinforcers than sham-exposed rats. During 10 extinction sessions, the rbTBI-exposed rats exhibited significantly more seeking for oxycodone than the sham-injured rats. There was a positive correlation between total oxycodone intake and day 1 extinction drug seeking in sham, but not in rbTBI-exposed rats. Together, this suggests that rbTBI-exposed rats are more sensitive to oxycodone-associated cues during reinstatement than sham-exposed rats and that rbTBI may disrupt the relationship between oxycodone intake and seeking.
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- Natalie N Nawarawong
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA.,Neuroscience Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA.,Neuroscience Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA.,Neuroscience Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA.,Neuroscience Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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Anterior Insular Cortex is Critical for the Propensity to Relapse Following Punishment-Imposed Abstinence of Alcohol Seeking. J Neurosci 2018; 39:1077-1087. [PMID: 30509960 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1596-18.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Revised: 10/15/2018] [Accepted: 11/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Humans with alcohol use disorder typically abstain because of the negative consequences associated with excessive drinking, and exposure to contexts previously associated with alcohol use can trigger relapse. We used a rat model that captures a characteristic of this human condition: namely voluntary abstinence from alcohol use because of contingent punishment. There is substantial variability in the propensity to relapse following extended periods of abstinence, and this is a critical feature preventing the successful treatment of alcohol use disorder. Here we examined relapse following acute or prolonged abstinence. In male alcohol preferring P rats, we found an increased propensity to relapse in Context B, the punishment context after prolonged abstinence. Next, we found that neither alcohol intake history nor the motivational strength of alcohol predicted the propensity to relapse. We next examined the putative circuitry of context-induced relapse to alcohol seeking following prolonged abstinence using Fos as a marker of neuronal activation. The anterior insular cortex (AI) was the only brain region examined where Fos expression correlated with alcohol seeking behavior in Context B after prolonged abstinence. Finally, we used local infusion of GABAA and GABAB receptor agonists (muscimol + baclofen) to show a causal role of the AI in context-induced relapse in Context B, the punishment context after prolonged abstinence. Our results show that there is substantial individual variability in the propensity to relapse in the punishment-associated context after prolonged abstinence, and this is mediated by activity in the AI.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT A key feature of alcohol use disorder is that sufferers show an enduring propensity to relapse throughout their lifetime. Relapse typically occurs despite the knowledge of adverse consequences including health complications or relationship breakdowns. Here we use a recently developed rodent model that recapitulates this behavior. After an extended period of abstinence, relapse propensity is markedly increased in the "adverse consequence" environment, akin to humans with alcohol use disorder relapsing in the face of adversity. From a circuitry perspective, we demonstrate a causal role of the anterior insular cortex in relapse to alcohol seeking after extended abstinence following punishment imposed voluntary cessation of alcohol use.
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Arthurs J, Lin JY, Reilly S. Inhibiting gustatory thalamus or medial amygdala has opposing effects on taste neophobia. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2018; 156:24-32. [PMID: 30336209 PMCID: PMC6309437 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2018] [Revised: 09/13/2018] [Accepted: 10/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Taste neophobia is a feeding system defense mechanism that limits consumption of an unknown, and therefore potentially dangerous, edible until the post-ingestive consequences are experienced. We found that transient pharmacological inhibition (induced with the GABA agonists baclofen and muscimol) of the gustatory thalamus (GT; Experiment 1), but not medial amygdala (MeA; Experiment 2), during exposure to a novel saccharin solution attenuated taste neophobia. In Experiment 3 we found that inhibition of MeA neurons (induced with the chemogenetic receptor hM4DGi) enhanced the expression of taste neophobia whereas excitation of MeA neurons (with hM3DGq) had no influence of taste neophobia. Overall, these results refine the temporal involvement of the GT in the occurrence of taste neophobia and support the hypothesis that neuronal excitation in the GT is necessary for taste neophobia. Conversely, we show that chemogenetically, but not pharmacologically, inhibiting MeA neurons is sufficient to exaggerate the expression of taste neophobia.
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- Joe Arthurs
- University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychology, United States.
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychology, United States
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychology, United States.
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Moschak TM, Wang X, Carelli RM. A Neuronal Ensemble in the Rostral Agranular Insula Tracks Cocaine-Induced Devaluation of Natural Reward and Predicts Cocaine Seeking. J Neurosci 2018; 38:8463-8472. [PMID: 30126972 PMCID: PMC6158695 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1195-18.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Revised: 07/31/2018] [Accepted: 08/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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In substance use disorders, negative affect associated with drug withdrawal can elicit strong drug craving and promote relapse. One brain region implicated in those processes is the rostral agranular insular cortex (RAIC), although precisely how this region encodes negative affect associated with drug seeking is unknown. Here, a preclinical model was used where RAIC activity was examined in male Sprague Dawley rats during intraoral infusions of a sweet (saccharin) paired with impending but delayed access to cocaine self-administration, and for comparative purposes, during the sweet predicting saline self-administration or injection of lithium chloride (LiCl), or during intraoral infusions of a bitter taste (quinine). Consistent with previous work, cocaine-paired saccharin, LiCl-paired saccharin, and quinine all elicited aversive taste reactivity. However, the aversive taste reactivity elicited by the cocaine-paired tastant was qualitatively different from that evoked by the other two agents. Furthermore, differences in taste reactivity were reflected in RAIC cell firing, where distinct shifts in neural signaling were observed specifically after cocaine but not LiCl conditioning. Notably, low motivation for cocaine (indicated by low loading and slower latencies to lever press) was correlated with this shift in RAIC signaling, but aversive (gaping) responses were not. Collectively, these findings indicate that cocaine-paired tastants elicit unique aspects of aversive behaviors that differ from traditional conditioned taste aversion (LiCl) or quinine and that the RAIC plays a role in modulating drug-seeking behaviors driven by drug-induced dysphoria (craving), but not negative affect per se.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT In substance use disorders, negative affect associated with drug cues can elicit craving and promote relapse; however, the underlying neurocircuitry of this phenomenon is unknown. Here, we investigated the role of the rostral agranular insula cortex (RAIC) in these processes using a preclinical model wherein intraoral delivery of a sweet is paired with delayed access to cocaine self-administration. The taste comes to elicit negative affect that predicts heightened drug seeking. Here, we found that a population of RAIC neurons became inhibited during presentation of the cocaine-paired tastant (when negative affect is high) and that this inhibitory neural profile predicted lower drug seeking. These findings suggest that the RAIC may function to oppose cue-induced cocaine craving and help reduce motivation for the drug.
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- Travis M Moschak
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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Muñoz B, Fritz BM, Yin F, Atwood BK. Alcohol exposure disrupts mu opioid receptor-mediated long-term depression at insular cortex inputs to dorsolateral striatum. Nat Commun 2018; 9:1318. [PMID: 29615610 PMCID: PMC5882774 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03683-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2017] [Accepted: 03/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Drugs of abuse, including alcohol, ablate the expression of specific forms of long-term synaptic depression (LTD) at glutamatergic synapses in dorsal striatum (DS), a brain region involved in goal-directed and habitual behaviors. This loss of LTD is associated with altered DS-dependent behavior. Given the role of the µ-opioid receptor (MOR) in behavioral responding for alcohol, we explored the impact of alcohol on various forms of MOR-mediated synaptic depression that we find are differentially expressed at specific DS synapses. Corticostriatal MOR-mediated LTD (mOP-LTD) in the dorsolateral striatum occurs exclusively at inputs from anterior insular cortex and is selectively disrupted by in vivo alcohol exposure. Alcohol has no effect on corticostriatal mOP-LTD in dorsomedial striatum, thalamostriatal MOR-mediated short-term depression, or mOP-LTD of cholinergic interneuron-driven glutamate release. Disrupted mOP-LTD at anterior insular cortex-dorsolateral striatum synapses may therefore be a key mechanism of alcohol-induced neuroadaptations involved in the development of alcohol use disorders.
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- Braulio Muñoz
- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA. .,Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA. .,Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
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Venniro M, Caprioli D, Zhang M, Whitaker LR, Zhang S, Warren BL, Cifani C, Marchant NJ, Yizhar O, Bossert JM, Chiamulera C, Morales M, Shaham Y. The Anterior Insular Cortex→Central Amygdala Glutamatergic Pathway Is Critical to Relapse after Contingency Management. Neuron 2017; 96:414-427.e8. [PMID: 29024664 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2017] [Revised: 08/02/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Despite decades of research on neurobiological mechanisms of psychostimulant addiction, the only effective treatment for many addicts is contingency management, a behavioral treatment that uses alternative non-drug reward to maintain abstinence. However, when contingency management is discontinued, most addicts relapse to drug use. The brain mechanisms underlying relapse after cessation of contingency management are largely unknown, and, until recently, an animal model of this human condition did not exist. Here we used a novel rat model, in which the availability of a mutually exclusive palatable food maintains prolonged voluntary abstinence from intravenous methamphetamine self-administration, to demonstrate that the activation of monosynaptic glutamatergic projections from anterior insular cortex to central amygdala is critical to relapse after the cessation of contingency management. We identified the anterior insular cortex-to-central amygdala projection as a new addiction- and motivation-related projection and a potential target for relapse prevention.
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- Marco Venniro
- Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, NIDA, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology "Vittorio Erspamer" Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, NIDA, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, NIDA, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Electron Microscopy Core, Intramural Research Program, NIDA, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, NIDA, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- University of Camerino School of Pharmacy, Pharmacology Unit, Camerino, Italy
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, NIDA, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, NIDA, NIH, Baltimore USA
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- Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, NIDA, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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