Psychobiological risk factors for vulnerability to psychostimulants in human adolescents and animal models
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Adolescence is associated with an increased risk of developing drug abuse/dependence. During this ontogenetic phase, brain and hormonal systems are still undergoing crucial maturational rearrangements, which take place together with significant modifications in psychosocial development. However, the neurohormonal and behavioral facets of adolescence have been poorly investigated in relation to the vulnerability to psychostimulants such as MDMA ("Ecstasy") and amphetamine (AMPH). Novelty-seeking, a temperamental/behavioral trait that is typical of this age period, might substantially contribute to both psychological and psychobiological vulnerability. In humans, an elevated score of novelty-sensation seeking and a derangement of monoaminergic function were both associated with late adolescence MDMA users compared to controls. In animal models of periadolescence, the search for novel stimuli and sensations actually shares a common neurobiological substrate (the reward-related brain mesolimbic pathways) with psychostimulants. The present review summarises recent work in mice, which indicates that periadolescent subjects are characterized by an unbalanced and "extremes-oriented" behavior and by elevated novelty-seeking compared to adults. Repeated and intermittent administration of cocaine or AMPH was associated with the development of a prominent locomotor sensitization in periadolescents, which failed to exhibit the marked sensitization of the stereotyped behavioral syndrome--p…
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Relative to adults, periadolescent rats show increased novelty-seeking behaviors in a free-choice novelty paradigm.
“Relative to adults, periadolescent rats show increased novelty-seeking behaviors in a free-choice novelty paradigm (Laviola et al. 1999).”
From <i>The Adolescent Brain</i> (2008) · cites this paper as Laviola et al. 1999
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- Authors
- Laviola, G., Adriani, W., Terranova, M. L., & Gerra, G.
- Affiliations
- Istituto Superiore di Sanità (IT)
- University of Parma (IT)
- Venue
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1999-11
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 993-1010
- ISSN
- 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1986623115
- Cited by
- 345
- References
- 6
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- FWCI
- 2.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- adolescence, psychostimulants, novelty seeking, amphetamine, cocaine, MDMA, drug vulnerability, periadolescence, locomotor sensitization, mesolimbic reward system, aversive effects, drug addiction
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Aging, Central Nervous System Stimulants, Animals, Exploratory Behavior, Humans, Risk Factors, Substance-Related Disorders
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