Author(s): Valyear MD; Eustachon NM; Britt JP;

The orosensory features of alcoholic drinks are potent relapse triggers because they acquire incentive properties during consumption, including enhanced palatability. Whether mice similarly perceive alcoholic drinks to be more palatable after repeated consumption is complicated by reports showing that alcohol elicits aversive taste reactivity responses an ...

Article GUID: 38430645

Author(s): Valyear MD; Brown A; Deyab G; Villaruel FR; Lahlou S; Caporicci-Dinucci N; Chaudhri N;

Discrete alcohol cues and contexts are relapse triggers for people with alcohol use disorder exerting particularly powerful control over behaviour when they co-occur. Here, we investigated the neural substrates subserving the capacity for alcohol-associated contexts to elevate responding to an alcohol-predictive conditioned stimulus (CS). Specifically, ra ...

Article GUID: 38185906

Author(s): Valyear MD; Britt JP;

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Article GUID: 36700576

Author(s): Brown A; Chaudhri N;

Contexts associated with prior reinforcement can renew extinguished conditioned responding. The prelimbic (PL) and infralimbic (IL) cortices are thought to mediate the expression and suppression of conditioned responding, respectively. Evidence suggests that PL inputs to the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) drive the expression of cue-induced ...

Article GUID: 36373226

Author(s): Valyear MD; LeCocq MR; Brown A; Villaruel FR; Segal D; Chaudhri N;

Rationale: Alcohol use is reliably preceded by discrete and contextual stimuli which, through diverse learning processes, acquire the capacity to promote alcohol use and relapse to alcohol use. Objective: We review contemporary extinction, renewal, reinstatement, occasion setting, and sex differences research within a conditioning framework of relapse to ...

Article GUID: 36264342

Author(s): Segal D; Valyear MD; Chaudhri N;

This supplementary dataset is supportive of the research article entitled 'The role of context on responding to an alcohol-predictive cue in female and male rats' [1]. This article describes the raw data pertaining to the behaviour of male and female rats during intermittent to ethanol and Pavlovian conditioning training and testing procedures. Sp ...

Article GUID: 35330738

Author(s): Villaruel FR; Martins M; Chaudhri N;

The capacity to suppress learned responses is essential for animals to adapt in dynamic environments. Extinction is a process by which animals learn to suppress conditioned responding when an expected outcome is omitted. The infralimbic cortex (IL) to nucleus accumbens shell (NAcS) neural circuit is implicated in suppressing conditioned responding after e ...

Article GUID: 34880119

Author(s): LeCocq MR; Sun S; Chaudhri N;

Re-exposure to an unconditioned stimulus (US) can reinstate extinguished conditioned responding elicited by a conditioned stimulus (CS). We tested the hypothesis that the reinstatement of responding to an appetitive CS is driven by an excitatory association formed between the US and the context that the US was ingested in during US re-exposure. Male, Long ...

Article GUID: 34852244

Author(s): Segal D; Valyear MD; Chaudhri N;

In male rats, physical contexts that are associated with alcohol can amplify responding to a discrete, alcohol-predictive conditioned stimulus (CS), and amplify prime-induced reinstatement. Here, we examined these effects as a function of biological sex. Male and female Long-Evans rats were acclimated to drinking ethanol (15% v/v) in their home cages. Nex ...

Article GUID: 34742865

Author(s): Cofresí RU, Monfils MH, Chaudhri N, Gonzales RA, Lee HJ

The ability of environmental cues to trigger alcohol-seeking behaviors is believed to facilitate problematic alcohol use. We previously showed that the development of this cue-evoked alcohol approach reflects cue-alcohol learning and memory in the adult male rat; however, we do not know whether the same is true for similarly aged female rats. Consequently ...

Article GUID: 31002878

Author(s): Reverte I, Volz S, Alhazmi FH, Kang M, Kaufman K, Chan S, Jou C, Iordanova MD, Esber GR

J Neurosci Methods. 2020 Mar 02;:108671 Authors: Reverte I, Volz S, Alhazmi FH, Kang M, Kaufman K, Chan S, Jou C, Iordanova MD, Esber GR

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