Featured Paper of the Month

Impaired functional connectivity within and between frontostriatal circuits and its association with compulsive drug use and trait impulsivity in cocaine addiction.

Featured Paper of the Month – November 2015
Hu, Yuzheng; Salmeron, Betty Jo; Gu, Hong; Stein, Elliot A; Yang, Yihong
JAMA Psychiatry, 72 (6), pp. 584–592, 2015, ISSN: 2168-6238 (Electronic); 2168-622X (Linking).
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Mechanism of the Association between Na+ Binding and Conformations at the Intracellular Gate in Neurotransmitter:Sodium Symporters.

Featured Paper of the Month – October 2015
Stolzenberg, Sebastian; Quick, Matthias; Zhao, Chunfeng; Gotfryd, Kamil; Khelashvili, George; Gether, Ulrik; Loland, Claus J; Javitch, Jonathan A; Noskov, Sergei; Weinstein, Harel; Shi, Lei
J Biol Chem, 290 (22), pp. 13992–14003, 2015, ISSN: 1083-351X (Electronic); 0021-9258 (Linking).
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Incubation of methamphetamine craving is associated with selective increases in expression of Bdnf and Trkb, glutamate receptors, and epigenetic enzymes in cue-activated fos-expressing dorsal striatal neurons.

Featured Paper of the Month – September 2015
Li, Xuan; Rubio, Javier F; Zeric, Tamara; Bossert, Jennifer M; Kambhampati, Sarita; Cates, Hannah M; Kennedy, Pamela J; Liu, Qing-Rong; Cimbro, Raffaello; Hope, Bruce T; Nestler, Eric J; Shaham, Yavin
J Neurosci, 35 (21), pp. 8232–8244, 2015, ISSN: 1529-2401 (Electronic); 0270-6474 (Linking).
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Norepinephrine activates dopamine D4 receptors in the rat lateral habenula.

Featured Paper of the Month – August 2015
Root, David H; Hoffman, Alexander F; Good, Cameron H; Zhang, Shiliang; Gigante, Eduardo; Lupica, Carl R; Morales, Marisela
J Neurosci, 35 (8), pp. 3460–3469, 2015, ISSN: 1529-2401 (Electronic); 0270-6474 (Linking).
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Basal Hippocampal Activity and Its Functional Connectivity Predicts Cocaine Relapse

Featured Paper of the Month – July 2015
Adinoff, Bryon; Gu, Hong; Merrick, Carmen; McHugh, Meredith; Jeon-Slaughter, Haekyung; Lu, Hanzhang; Yang, Yihong; Stein, Elliot A
Biol Psychiatry, 78 (7), pp. 496–504, 2015, ISSN: 1873-2402 (Electronic); 0006-3223 (Linking).
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R-Modafinil Attenuates Nicotine-Taking and Nicotine-Seeking Behavior in Alcohol-Preferring Rats

Featured Paper of the Month – June 2015
Wang, Xiao-Fei; Bi, Guo-Hua; He, Yi; Yang, Hong-Ju; Gao, Jun-Tao; Okunola-Bakare, Oluyomi M; Slack, Rachel D; Gardner, Eliot L; Xi, Zheng-Xiong; Newman, Amy Hauck
Neuropsychopharmacology, 40 (7), pp. 1762–1771, 2015, ISSN: 1740-634X (Electronic); 0893-133X (Linking).
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Central role for the insular cortex in mediating conditioned responses to anticipatory cues

Featured Paper of the Month – May 2015
Kusumoto-Yoshida, Ikue; Liu, Haixin; Chen, Billy T; Fontanini, Alfredo; Bonci, Antonello
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 112 (4), pp. 1190–1195, 2015, ISSN: 1091-6490 (Electronic); 0027-8424 (Linking).
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An in vitro model of human neocortical development using pluripotent stem cells: cocaine-induced cytoarchitectural alterations

Featured Paper of the Month – April 2015
Kindberg, Abigail A; Bendriem, Raphael M; Spivak, Charles E; Chen, Jia; Handreck, Annelie; Lupica, Carl R; Liu, Jinny; Freed, William J; Lee, Chun-Ting
Dis Model Mech, 7 (12), pp. 1397–1405, 2014, ISSN: 1754-8411 (Electronic); 1754-8403 (Linking).
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Functional selectivity of allosteric interactions within G protein-coupled receptor oligomers: the dopamine D1-D3 receptor heterotetramer.

Featured Paper of the Month – March 2015
Guitart, Xavier ; Navarro, Gemma ; Moreno, Estefania ; Yano, Hideaki ; Cai, Ning-Sheng ; Sanchez-Soto, Marta ; Kumar-Barodia, Sandeep ; Naidu, Yamini T; Mallol, Josefa ; Cortes, Antoni ; Lluis, Carme ; Canela, Enric I; Casado, Vicent ; McCormick, Peter J; Ferre, Sergi
Mol Pharmacol, 86 (4), pp. 417-429, 2014, ISSN: 1521-0111 (Electronic); 0026-895X (Linking).
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Synthesis and immunological effects of heroin vaccines

Featured Paper of the Month – February 2015
Li, Fuying ; Cheng, Kejun ; Antoline, Joshua F G; Iyer, Malliga R; Matyas, Gary R; Torres, Oscar B; Jalah, Rashmi ; Beck, Zoltan ; Alving, Carl R; Parrish, Damon A; Deschamps, Jeffrey R; Jacobson, Arthur E; Rice, Kenner C
Org Biomol Chem, 12 (37), pp. 7211–7232, 2014, ISSN: 1477-0539 (Electronic); 1477-0520 (Linking).
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