Neuroplastic alterations in the limbic system following cocaine or alcohol exposure

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 3-27

  Stuber, Garret D ^a   Hopf, F Woodward ^a   Tye, Kay M ^a   Chen, Billy T ^a   Bonci, Antonello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumbens; Amygdala; Dopamine; Drug abuse; Glutamate; Plasticity; Reward; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALCOHOL; AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SMALL CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONDITIONING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LATERAL AMYGDALA; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ETHANOL; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE;

EID: 79952117828     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2009_23     Document Type: Review

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