Habitual Alcohol Seeking: Neural Bases and Possible Relations to Alcohol Use Disorders

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1380-1389

  Corbit, Laura H ^a   Janak, Patricia H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal Striatum; Ethanol; Habit Learning; Outcome Devaluation; Pavlovian Instrumental Transfer; Stimuli

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); COMPULSION; DORSAL STRIATUM; DORSOLATERAL STRIATUM; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HABIT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; SATIETY; TASTE AVERSION; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSFER OF LEARNING;

ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84971268770     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.13094     Document Type: Review

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