Synaptic mechanisms underlying persistent cocaine craving

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 351-365

  Wolf, Marina E ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCIUM IMPERMEABLE AMPA RECEPTOR; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYGDALA; ASSOCIATION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DORSAL STRIATUM; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; HUMAN; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEDIUM SPINY NEURON; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS SHELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; REWARD; RODENT MODEL; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; ADDICTION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CRAVING; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BRAIN; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CRAVING; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REWARD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84963961199     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2016.39     Document Type: Review

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