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The anterior insular cortex→central amygdala glutamatergic pathway is critical to relapse after contingency management

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Venniro, Marco, Caprioli, Daniele, Zhang, Michelle, Whitaker, Leslie R., Zhang, Shiliang, Warren, Brandon L., Cifani, Carlo, Marchant, Nathan J. +5 more·2017·Neuron

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Despite decades of research on neurobiological mechanisms of psychostimulant addiction, the only effective treatment for many addicts is contingency management, a behavioral treatment that uses alternative non-drug reward to maintain abstinence. However, when contingency management is discontinued, most addicts relapse to drug use. The brain mechanisms underlying relapse after cessation of contingency management are largely unknown, and, until recently, an animal model of this human condition did not exist. Here we used a novel rat model, in which the availability of a mutually exclusive palatable food maintains prolonged voluntary abstinence from intravenous methamphetamine self-administration, to demonstrate that the activation of monosynaptic glutamatergic projections from anterior insular cortex to central amygdala is critical to relapse after the cessation of contingency management. We identified the anterior insular cortex-to-central amygdala projection as a new addiction- and motivation-related projection and a potential target for relapse prevention.

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  1. Shi CJ Cassell MD 1998 Cortical, thalamic, and amygdaloid connections of the anterior and posterior insular cortices J Comp Neurol 399 440 468 9741477

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Venniro, M., Caprioli, D., Zhang, M., Whitaker, L. R., Zhang, S., Warren, B. L., Cifani, C., Marchant, N. J., Yizhar, O., Bossert, J. M., Chiamulera, C., Morales, M., & Shaham, Y.
Affiliations
  • Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (US)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • Università di Camerino (IT)
  • Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
  • Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
  • University of Verona (IT)
Corresponding author
Shaham, Yavin
Venue
Neuron
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-10
Volume
96
Issue
2
Pages
414-427.e8
ISSN
0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2762152147
Cited by
162
References
97
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 33 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1
FWCI
10.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Neuron (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Amsterdam UMC (VU Amsterdam) - Institutional Repository (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Unicam Scientific Publications (University of Camerino) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) (submittedVersion)
  • Pure Amsterdam UMC (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Intramural Research Program of NIDA (Z01 DA000434-17)
  • NARSAD
  • Italian Ministry of University and Research (FIRB-RBFR12DELS)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Keywords
relapse, contingency management, anterior insula, central amygdala, glutamatergic pathways, methamphetamine self-administration, addiction, motivation, relapse prevention, rat model
MeSH terms
Animals, Cerebral Cortex, Eating, Injections, Intravenous, Male, Methamphetamine, Neural Pathways, Recurrence, Self Administration, Behavior, Addictive, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Rats, Central Amygdaloid Nucleus

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