List of works - Serge H Ahmed

A choice-based screening method for compulsive drug users in rats.

scientific article published in July 2013

A critical transition in cocaine self-administration: behavioral and neurobiological implications

scientific article published on 21 February 2007

A neuronal population code for resemblance between drug and nondrug reward outcomes in the orbitofrontal cortex

scientific article published on 11 December 2018

A non-invasive gating device for continuous drug delivery that allows control over the timing and duration of spontaneous opiate withdrawal.

scientific article published in May 2004

A redescription of data does not count as a general theory

scientific article

A transdiagnostic dimensional approach towards a neuropsychological assessment for addiction: an international Delphi consensus study

scientific article published on 05 October 2018

Alternative models of addiction.

scientific article published on 13 February 2015

Amphetamine-induced conditioned activity does not result from a failure of rats to habituate to novelty.

scientific article published in February 1996

Amphetamine-induced conditioned activity in rats: comparison with novelty-induced activity and role of the basolateral amygdala

scientific article published in August 1995

Amphetamine-induced conditioned activity is insensitive to perturbations known to affect pavlovian conditioned responses in rats.

scientific article published in October 1998

Animal studies of addictive behavior

scientific article

Changes in response to a dopamine receptor antagonist in rats with escalating cocaine intake.

scientific article

Choosing Under the Influence: A Drug-Specific Mechanism by Which the Setting Controls Drug Choices in Rats.

scientific article published on July 2015

Chronic morphine treatment alters N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in freshly isolated neurons from nucleus accumbens

scientific article

Chronic morphine treatment alters NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic transmission in the nucleus accumbens.

scientific article published on October 1999

Cocaine addiction as a homeostatic reinforcement learning disorder

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

Cocaine is low on the value ladder of rats: possible evidence for resilience to addiction

scientific article

Cocaine- but not food-seeking behavior is reinstated by stress after extinction.

scientific article published in August 1997

Computational approaches to the neurobiology of drug addiction

scientific article published on 11 May 2009

Conditioning and opiate withdrawal

scientific article published on June 2000

Controlling interindividual differences in the unconditioned response to amphetamine in the study of environment-dependent sensitization

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Coordinated Recruitment of Cortical-Subcortical Circuits and Ascending Dopamine and Serotonin Neurons During Inhibitory Control of Cocaine Seeking in Rats

scientific article published on 28 May 2014

Corticotropin-releasing factor induces a place aversion independent of its neuroendocrine role

scientific article published on December 1992

Corticotropin-releasing factor receptor blockade enhances conditioned aversive properties of cocaine in rats.

scientific article published in April 1998

Cracking the molecular code of cocaine addiction

scientific article published on January 2011

Diazepam promotes choice of abstinence in cocaine self-administering rats.

scientific article published on 28 September 2011

Discriminative inhibitory control of cocaine seeking involves the prelimbic prefrontal cortex

scientific article published on 15 September 2012

Dissociation of psychomotor sensitization from compulsive cocaine consumption

scientific article published in March 2006

Drug specificity in extended access cocaine and heroin self-administration.

scientific article

Drug versus sweet reward: greater attraction to and preference for sweet versus drug cues

scientific article published on 7 March 2014

Erratum to: Review of the nutritional benefits and risks related to intense sweeteners

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

Escalation of cocaine intake and incubation of cocaine seeking are correlated with dissociable neuronal processes in different accumbens subregions

scientific article published on 9 October 2013

Escalation of cocaine self-administration does not depend on altered cocaine-induced nucleus accumbens dopamine levels.

scientific article

Explaining the escalation of drug use in substance dependence: models and appropriate animal laboratory tests

scientific article published on 14 June 2007

Extended heroin access increases heroin choices over a potent nondrug alternative.

scientific article published on 15 January 2013

Gene expression evidence for remodeling of lateral hypothalamic circuitry in cocaine addiction

scientific article

Heroin-induced reinstatement is specific to compulsive heroin use and dissociable from heroin reward and sensitization

scientific article published on 26 April 2006

Imbalance between drug and non-drug reward availability: a major risk factor for addiction

scientific article

Incubation of Accumbal Neuronal Reactivity to Cocaine Cues During Abstinence Predicts Individual Vulnerability to Relapse

scientific article published on 18 September 2017

Individual decision-making in the causal pathway to addiction: contributions and limitations of rodent models.

scientific article

Intense sweetness surpasses cocaine reward

scientific article

Levodopa gains psychostimulant-like properties after nigral dopaminergic loss

scientific article published in July 2013

Long-lasting increase in the set point for cocaine self-administration after escalation in rats

scientific article published in October 1999

Mesolimbic dopamine drives the diurnal variation in opiate-induced feeding.

scientific article published in July 2005

Microinjections of an opiate receptor antagonist into the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis suppress heroin self-administration in dependent rats

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Misdeed of the need: towards computational accounts of transition to addiction

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Neurobiological evidence for hedonic allostasis associated with escalating cocaine use.

scientific article

Neurobiological mechanisms in the transition from drug use to drug dependence.

scientific article published on January 2004

Neurobiology of addiction versus drug use driven by lack of choice

scientific article published on 18 February 2013

Neuronal representation of individual heroin choices in the orbitofrontal cortex

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Neuroscience. Addiction as compulsive reward prediction.

scientific article published in December 2004

Persistent increase in the motivation to take heroin in rats with a history of drug escalation

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

Preclinical validation of a novel cocaine exposure therapy for relapse prevention

scientific article

Preference for Cocaine is Represented in the Orbitofrontal Cortex by an Increased Proportion of Cocaine Use-Coding Neurons.

scientific article published on 4 January 2017

Rats quit nicotine for a sweet reward following an extensive history of nicotine use.

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Reinforcing properties of Pramipexole in normal and parkinsonian rats

scientific article published on 23 August 2012

Relapse to cocaine use persists following extinction of drug-primed craving

scientific article published on 02 June 2019

Review of the nutritional benefits and risks related to intense sweeteners

scientific article

Risk-prone individuals prefer the wrong options on a rat version of the Iowa Gambling Task

scientific article published on 31 May 2009

Social deprivation enhances the vulnerability of male Wistar rats to stressor- and amphetamine-induced behavioral sensitization

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Sugar addiction: pushing the drug-sugar analogy to the limit

scientific article

Sugar overconsumption during adolescence selectively alters motivation and reward function in adult rats

scientific article

Supply of a nondrug substitute reduces escalated heroin consumption.

scientific article published on 31 October 2007

The science of making drug-addicted animals.

scientific article published on 10 August 2011

The simulation of addiction: pharmacological and neurocomputational models of drug self-administration

scientific article published in October 2007

The transition from controlled to compulsive drug use is associated with a loss of sensitization.

scientific article

Toward an evolutionary basis for resilience to drug addiction.

scientific article published on December 2011

Transition from moderate to excessive drug intake: change in hedonic set point.

scientific article

Transition to drug addiction: a negative reinforcement model based on an allostatic decrease in reward function

scientific article published on 25 February 2005

Validation crisis in animal models of drug addiction: beyond non-disordered drug use toward drug addiction.

scientific article published on 22 April 2010

List of works by Serge H Ahmed

A choice-based screening method for compulsive drug users in rats.

A critical transition in cocaine self-administration: behavioral and neurobiological implications

A neuronal population code for resemblance between drug and nondrug reward outcomes in the orbitofrontal cortex

A non-invasive gating device for continuous drug delivery that allows control over the timing and duration of spontaneous opiate withdrawal.

A redescription of data does not count as a general theory

A transdiagnostic dimensional approach towards a neuropsychological assessment for addiction: an international Delphi consensus study

Alternative models of addiction.

Amphetamine-induced conditioned activity does not result from a failure of rats to habituate to novelty.

Amphetamine-induced conditioned activity in rats: comparison with novelty-induced activity and role of the basolateral amygdala

Amphetamine-induced conditioned activity is insensitive to perturbations known to affect pavlovian conditioned responses in rats.

Animal studies of addictive behavior

Changes in response to a dopamine receptor antagonist in rats with escalating cocaine intake.

Choosing Under the Influence: A Drug-Specific Mechanism by Which the Setting Controls Drug Choices in Rats.

Chronic morphine treatment alters N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in freshly isolated neurons from nucleus accumbens

Chronic morphine treatment alters NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic transmission in the nucleus accumbens.

Cocaine addiction as a homeostatic reinforcement learning disorder

Cocaine is low on the value ladder of rats: possible evidence for resilience to addiction

Cocaine- but not food-seeking behavior is reinstated by stress after extinction.

Computational approaches to the neurobiology of drug addiction

Conditioning and opiate withdrawal

Controlling interindividual differences in the unconditioned response to amphetamine in the study of environment-dependent sensitization

Coordinated Recruitment of Cortical-Subcortical Circuits and Ascending Dopamine and Serotonin Neurons During Inhibitory Control of Cocaine Seeking in Rats

Corticotropin-releasing factor induces a place aversion independent of its neuroendocrine role

Corticotropin-releasing factor receptor blockade enhances conditioned aversive properties of cocaine in rats.

Cracking the molecular code of cocaine addiction

Diazepam promotes choice of abstinence in cocaine self-administering rats.

Discriminative inhibitory control of cocaine seeking involves the prelimbic prefrontal cortex

Dissociation of psychomotor sensitization from compulsive cocaine consumption

Drug specificity in extended access cocaine and heroin self-administration.

Drug versus sweet reward: greater attraction to and preference for sweet versus drug cues

Erratum to: Review of the nutritional benefits and risks related to intense sweeteners

Escalation of cocaine intake and incubation of cocaine seeking are correlated with dissociable neuronal processes in different accumbens subregions

Escalation of cocaine self-administration does not depend on altered cocaine-induced nucleus accumbens dopamine levels.

Explaining the escalation of drug use in substance dependence: models and appropriate animal laboratory tests

Extended heroin access increases heroin choices over a potent nondrug alternative.

Gene expression evidence for remodeling of lateral hypothalamic circuitry in cocaine addiction

Heroin-induced reinstatement is specific to compulsive heroin use and dissociable from heroin reward and sensitization

Imbalance between drug and non-drug reward availability: a major risk factor for addiction

Incubation of Accumbal Neuronal Reactivity to Cocaine Cues During Abstinence Predicts Individual Vulnerability to Relapse

Individual decision-making in the causal pathway to addiction: contributions and limitations of rodent models.

Intense sweetness surpasses cocaine reward

Levodopa gains psychostimulant-like properties after nigral dopaminergic loss

Long-lasting increase in the set point for cocaine self-administration after escalation in rats

Mesolimbic dopamine drives the diurnal variation in opiate-induced feeding.

Microinjections of an opiate receptor antagonist into the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis suppress heroin self-administration in dependent rats

Misdeed of the need: towards computational accounts of transition to addiction

Neurobiological evidence for hedonic allostasis associated with escalating cocaine use.

Neurobiological mechanisms in the transition from drug use to drug dependence.

Neurobiology of addiction versus drug use driven by lack of choice

Neuronal representation of individual heroin choices in the orbitofrontal cortex

Neuroscience. Addiction as compulsive reward prediction.

Persistent increase in the motivation to take heroin in rats with a history of drug escalation

Preclinical validation of a novel cocaine exposure therapy for relapse prevention

Preference for Cocaine is Represented in the Orbitofrontal Cortex by an Increased Proportion of Cocaine Use-Coding Neurons.

Rats quit nicotine for a sweet reward following an extensive history of nicotine use.

Reinforcing properties of Pramipexole in normal and parkinsonian rats

Relapse to cocaine use persists following extinction of drug-primed craving

Review of the nutritional benefits and risks related to intense sweeteners

Risk-prone individuals prefer the wrong options on a rat version of the Iowa Gambling Task

Social deprivation enhances the vulnerability of male Wistar rats to stressor- and amphetamine-induced behavioral sensitization

Sugar addiction: pushing the drug-sugar analogy to the limit

Sugar overconsumption during adolescence selectively alters motivation and reward function in adult rats

Supply of a nondrug substitute reduces escalated heroin consumption.

The science of making drug-addicted animals.

The simulation of addiction: pharmacological and neurocomputational models of drug self-administration

The transition from controlled to compulsive drug use is associated with a loss of sensitization.

Toward an evolutionary basis for resilience to drug addiction.

Transition from moderate to excessive drug intake: change in hedonic set point.

Transition to drug addiction: a negative reinforcement model based on an allostatic decrease in reward function

Validation crisis in animal models of drug addiction: beyond non-disordered drug use toward drug addiction.