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ORGANISM(S): Danio rerio
SUBMITTER: Caroline Brennan
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-1301 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Kily Layla J M LJ Cowe Yuka C M YC Hussain Osman O Patel Salma S McElwaine Suzanne S Cotter Finbarr E FE Brennan Caroline H CH
The Journal of experimental biology 20080501 Pt 10
Addiction is a complex psychiatric disorder considered to be a disease of the brain's natural reward reinforcement system. Repeated stimulation of the 'reward' pathway leads to adaptive changes in gene expression and synaptic organization that reinforce drug taking and underlie long-term changes in behaviour. The primitive nature of reward reinforcement pathways and the near universal ability of abused drugs to target the same system allow drug-associated reward and reinforcement to be studied i ...[more]