Abstract
Drug addiction is a syndrome of impaired response inhibition and salience attribution, which involves a complex neurocircuitry underlying drug reinforcement, drug craving, and compulsive drug-seeking and drug-taking behaviors despite adverse consequences. The concept of disease stages with transitions from acute rewarding effects to early- and end-stage addiction has had an important impact on the design of nonclinical animal models. This chapter reviews the main advances in nonclinical paradigms that aim to at model (1) positive and negative reinforcing effects of addictive drugs; (2) relapse to drug-seeking behavior; (3) reconsolidation of drug cue memories, and (4) compulsive/impulsive drug intake. In addition, recent small animal neuroimaging studies and invertebrate models will be briefly discussed (see also Bifone and Gozzi, Animal models of ADHD, 2011). Continuous improvement in modeling drug intake, craving, withdrawal symptoms, relapse, and comorbid psychiatric associations is a necessary step to better understand the etiology of the disease and to ultimately foster the discovery, validation and optimization of new efficacious pharmacotherapeutic approaches. The modeling of specific subprocesses or constructs that address clinically defined criteria will ultimately increase our understanding of the disease as a whole. Future research will have to address the questions of whether some of these constructs can be reliably used as outcome measures to assess the effects of a treatment in clinical settings, whether changes in those measures can be a target of therapeutic efforts, and whether they relate to biological markers of traits such as impulsivity, which contribute to increased drug-seeking and may predict binge-like patterns of drug intake.
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Abbreviations
- 5-CSRT:
-
5-Choice serial reaction time
- 6-OHDA:
-
6-Hydroxydopamine
- AA:
-
Alko alcohol rats
- ADE:
-
Alcohol deprivation effect
- ANA:
-
Alko non alcohol rats
- APA:
-
American Psychiatric Association
- BSR:
-
Brain stimulation reward
- CPA:
-
Conditioned place aversion
- CPP:
-
Conditioned place preference
- CS:
-
Conditioned stimulus
- DA:
-
Dopamine
- DSM-IV:
-
Diagnostic and statistical manual fourth edition
- EMCDDA:
-
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
- fMRI:
-
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- FR:
-
Fixed ratio
- HAD:
-
High alcohol drinking rats
- HAP:
-
High alcohol preferring mice
- ICD-10:
-
International classification of diseases and related health problems tenth revision
- ICSS:
-
Intracranial self-stimulation
- LAP:
-
Low alcohol preferring mice
- LgA:
-
Long-access escalation
- MK-801:
-
(5S,10R)-(+)-5-Methyl-10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo[a,d]cyclo hepten-5, 10-imine maleate
- NAc:
-
Nucleus accumbens
- NMDA:
-
N-methyl-d-aspartate
- OFC:
-
Orbitofrontal cortex
- PET:
-
Positron emission tomography
- phMRI:
-
Pharmacological magnetic resonance imaging
- PR:
-
Progressive ratio
- SD:
-
Discriminative stimulus
- sP:
-
Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats
- VTA:
-
Ventral tegmental area
- WHO:
-
World Health Organization
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Heidbreder, C. (2011). Advances in Animal Models of Drug Addiction. In: Hagan, J. (eds) Molecular and Functional Models in Neuropsychiatry. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2010_107
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