Open AccessDrug Addiction and the Hippocampus
Author(s) -
Joshua D. Berke,
Howard Eichenbaum
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556
H-Index - 1186
eISSN - 1095-9203
pISSN - 0036-8075
DOI - 10.1126/science.294.5545.1235a
Subject(s) - hippocampus , addiction , drug , psychology , neuroscience , stimulation , lever , saline , methamphetamine , pharmacology , anesthesia , medicine , psychiatry , physics , quantum mechanics
Vorel et al . ([1][1]) reported that stimulation of the hippocampus at theta frequency caused reinstatement of drug-taking behavior, in rats that had learned to lever-press for cocaine and subsequently had had this behavior extinguished by substituting saline for cocaine. They suggested that the
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