Journal
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 216, Issue 1, Pages 159-165Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.07.022
Keywords
Novelty; Sign tracking; Goal tracking; Incentive salience; Autoshaping
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- NIH [T32 DA007304, P50 DA05312]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE [T32DA007304, P50DA005312] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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It has been suggested that incentive salience plays a major role in drug abuse and the development of addiction. Additionally, novelty seeking has been identified as a significant risk factor for drug abuse. However, how differences in the readiness to attribute incentive salience relate to novelty seeking and drug abuse vulnerability has not been explored. The present experiments examined how individual differences in incentive salience attribution relate to novelty seeking and acquisition of cocaine self-administration in a preclinical model. Rats were first assessed in an inescapable novelty task and a novelty place preference task (measures of novelty seeking), followed by a Pavlovian conditioned approach task for food (a measure of incentive salience attribution). Rats then were trained to self-administer cocaine (0.3 or 1.0 mg/kg/infusion) using an autoshaping procedure. The results demonstrate that animals that attributed incentive salience to a food-associated cue were higher novelty seekers and acquired cocaine self-administration more quickly at the lower dose. The results suggest that novelty-seeking behavior may be a mediator of incentive salience attribution and that incentive salience magnitude may be an indicator of drug reward. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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