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ADDICTION BIOLOGY
卷 22, 期 4, 页码 958-966出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/adb.12384
关键词
addiction; attentional set-shifting; cognition; endophenotype; psychostimulant; vulnerability
资金
- Institute National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medical, le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Poitiers and the Contrat de Projet Etat Region (CPER)
- Ecole de l'Inserm Liliane Bettencourt
Drug addiction is often associated with cognitive deficits and behavioral inflexibility that may contribute to the development and maintenance of addictive behaviors by reducing addicts' ability to control their behavior toward the drug. In this study, we investigated the relationships between pre-drug levels of behavioral flexibility and the risk to develop uncontrolled methamphetamine (METH) self-administration. First, we measured individual performance in an inter-dimensional set-shifting procedure in which animals have to switch between an external visual rule and an internal side rule in order to obtain food pellets. Then we allowed rats to self-administer METH for twenty long 14-hour sessions, and we investigated the relationships between behavioral flexibility and measures of control over drug intake. Rats rapidly acquired to self-administer high levels of METH which resulted in moderate weight loss. After several sessions of self-administration, whereas some rats progressively increased their METH intake, other rats showed very long voluntary pauses between drug injections and showed no escalation in METH self-administration. Interestingly, we found that behavioral flexibility is correlated with METH self-administration and that more flexible rats take less METH and do not escalate drug taking. These results suggest that traits of behavioral flexibility may protect against the development of excessive and dysregulated drug taking. Conversely, the inability to adapt behavioral responses as a function of the environmental contingencies may contribute to the risks to develop addiction to METH.
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