Cocaine sensitization and craving: Differing roles for dopamine and glutamate in the nucleus accumbens

Journal of Addictive Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 43-54

  Cornish, Jennifer L ^a   Kalivas, Peter W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumbens; Craving; Dopamine; Glutamate; Relapse

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

BEHAVIOR; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONDITIONING; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS;

EID: 0035182664     PISSN: 10550887     EISSN: 15450848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J069v20n03_05     Document Type: Article

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