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Individual Differences in the Attribution of Incentive Salience to a Pavlovian Alcohol Cue.

Author(s): Villaruel FR, Chaudhri N

Front Behav Neurosci. 2016;10:238 Authors: Villaruel FR, Chaudhri N

Article GUID: 28082877
Alcohol-seeking and relapse: A focus on incentive salience and contextual conditioning.

Author(s): Valyear MD, Villaruel FR, Chaudhri N

Behav Processes. 2017 Aug;141(Pt 1):26-32 Authors: Valyear MD, Villaruel FR, Chaudhri N

Article GUID: 28473252
Optogenetic Activation of the Infralimbic Cortex Suppresses the Return of Appetitive Pavlovian-Conditioned Responding Following Extinction.

Author(s): Villaruel FR, Lacroix F, Sanio C, Sparks DW, Chapman CA, Chaudhri N

Cereb Cortex. 2018 Dec 01;28(12):4210-4221 Authors: Villaruel FR, Lacroix F, Sanio C, Sparks DW, Chapman CA, Chaudhri N

Article GUID: 29045570
Title:Alcohol-seeking and relapse: A focus on incentive salience and contextual conditioning.
Authors:Valyear MD,  Villaruel FR,  Chaudhri N
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28473252?dopt=Abstract
Category:Behav Processes
PMID:28473252
Dept Affiliation: PSYCHOLOGY
1 Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology/FRQS Groupe de recherche en neurobiologie comportementale, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
2 Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology/FRQS Groupe de recherche en neurobiologie comportementale, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Electronic address: nadia.chaudhri@concordia.ca.

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Alcohol-seeking and relapse: A focus on incentive salience and contextual conditioning.

Behav Processes. 2017 Aug;141(Pt 1):26-32

Authors: Valyear MD, Villaruel FR, Chaudhri N

Abstract

Environmental stimuli that reliably accompany alcohol intake can become associated with the pharmacological effects of alcohol through classical (Pavlovian) conditioning. Of growing interest to addiction researchers is whether or not this process results in the attribution of incentive salience to alcohol-predictive cues, which could motivate alcohol-seeking behavior and relapse. To evaluate this question, we present a review of rodent behavioral studies that examined the capacity of alcohol-predictive cues to (i) support sign-tracking behavior, (ii) serve as conditioned reinforcers, and (iii) produce Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer. A second, emerging area of research is focused on delineating the role of context in alcohol-seeking behavior and relapse. Here, we review studies showing that alcohol-associated contexts (i) support conditioned place preference, (ii) renew extinguished alcohol-seeking behavior, and (iii) modulate alcohol-seeking responses elicited by discrete alcohol-predictive cues. These behavioral effects may be mediated by unique psychological processes, and have important implications for cue-reactivity studies and neurobiological research.

PMID: 28473252 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]