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Paper of the week: Our collaborative study with Yihong Yang's imaging lab, published in Neuropsychopharmacology (first author: Zilu Ma), on the role of the dorsal striatum in incubation of opioid craving after voluntary abstinence in rats pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39300270/

#ThisWeekInNPP This study from Ma et al., (incl., Yavin Shaham) demonstrates that inactivating the dorsomedial striatum - but not the medial orbitofrontal cortex - reduces oxycodone seeking after voluntary abstinence nature.com/articles/s4138…

Middle Eastern & African Neuroscientists Social @ SfN: Sun, 6:30-8:00 pm; Marriott Marquis-Great Lakes Ballroom C. The social gathering's goal is to promote neuroscience research & collaborations in Middle East & Africa. We provide Middle Eastern food. Please join us & RT

The Shaham & Hope labs at the SfN meeting: If you are interested in behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of drug self-administration, choice, relapse and social behavior, please visit our posters during the meeting

Yavin Shaham Leslie Anne Ramsey Ginevra D'Ottavio Kayla Pitts Updated list with a few more Hope lab posters showcasing new tools to study neuronal ensembles relevant to drug seeking and relapse.

Yavin Shaham Leslie Anne Ramsey Ginevra D'Ottavio Kayla Pitts Katherine Savell Bruce Hope + Shaham postdoc Ginevra’s D’Ottavio’s Ginevra D'Ottavio poster. Tuesday Oct 8 8AM to noon Poster 300.01 Translating human drug use patterns into rat models: exploring spontaneous interindividual differences via refined drug self-administration procedures

Highlight #SfN24 was the Middle Eastern social. Thanks to Yavin Shaham for organizing this. Iranians, Lebanese & Israelis going for drinks/food afterwards was the highlight of yesterday for me. Here to high hopes for a better shared future for people who have a shared history 🥂

I received news this week that I've been promoted to full professor! As such, I have made some minor revisions to the label on my door. Special thanks to all of those who have offered their generous support/contributions for this academic journey. 🙂

Paper of the week: Our new @Psychopharm paper, led by Jennifer Bossert, on the effect of nociceptin receptor partial agonist & antagonist on heroin relapse in our rat model of opioid maintenance. Neither drug mimicked buprenorphine effect in the model pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39269500/

Does Drug Intake Despite Adverse Consequences Really Measure Compulsivity? There’s a big debate in addiction research: is drug use despite adverse consequences (like punishment) a standalone measure of compulsive behavior, or just part of a larger addiction profile? This new

Following feedback at our workshop, we have rebranded our DEI committee to the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Committee (IDEA) to show our commitment to making the society, field and our meetings accessible to all our attendees and members. ebps.org/about/dei-comm…

We have extended the deadline to give everyone a bit more time after the holidays to get their symposium proposals together #EBPS2025. All the information for our September meeting is on our new conference website! ebps2025.com

Hey guys! Go to read the last paper from my Twitter-less friend Ken! 🤗🤗🤗 jneurosci.org/content/early/…

Congratulations to Dr. Anna Li on becoming a new ACNP Associate Member! #WelcomeToACNP👋

Symposia two is chaired by EBPS Past-President (but don't let that sway you) Yavin Shaham. Here the group is discussing exciting recent advances in addiction research from both human and animal models!

My second paper is finally out, and I’m thrilled it’s been published as a follow-up to my first in British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP) ! 🎉 Probably everyone knows our story, but here a short thread...🧵 (1/9) bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bp…

The second symposium chaired by Nathan Marchant explores the mechanisms of choice in rodent addiction models with evidence from behavioural and neurobiological measures. #EBPS2025

Special issue of the month: Excellent @Psychopharm issue on social behavior & neuropsychiatric disorders (editors: Daniele Caprioli, Marco Venniro, Sam Golden & Christelle Baunez). This issue is based on the 2022 EBPS workshop dedicated to this topic pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39969568/

Review of the week: our review in Pharm Rev (ASPET) (1st au Jonathan Chow) summarizes studies on incubation of drug craving in animal models & humans since 2011. We also discuss the translational value of the incubation of drug craving model (Box 2) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40148031/

Paper of the week: our collaborative SfN Journals paper with the Yang Lab (1st au Ken Negishi, last au Ida Fredriksson) on the role of claustrum & its anatomical connections with ventral subiculum in incubation of opioid craving after voluntary abstinence pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39933931/