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List of works by Olivier George

A Transgenic Rat for Investigating the Anatomy and Function of Corticotrophin Releasing Factor Circuits

scientific article

A role for the endocannabinoid system in the increased motivation for cocaine in extended-access conditions

scientific article published on April 2009

Addiction as a stress surfeit disorder.

scientific article published on 06 June 2013

Adolescent cannabinoid exposure induces irritability-like behavior and cocaine cross-sensitization without affecting the escalation of cocaine self-administration in adulthood

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Alcohol Dependence Disrupts Amygdalar L-Type Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel Mechanisms.

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

An enzymatic advance in nicotine cessation therapy.

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

An enzymatic approach reverses nicotine dependence, decreases compulsive-like intake, and prevents relapse

article

Animal models of nicotine exposure: relevance to second-hand smoking, electronic cigarette use, and compulsive smoking.

scientific article published on 4 June 2013

Anticipatory 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalizations are associated with escalated alcohol intake in dependent rats.

scientific article

CRF-CRF1 system activation mediates withdrawal-induced increases in nicotine self-administration in nicotine-dependent rats

scholarly article

CRF1 Receptor-Dependent Increases in Irritability-Like Behavior During Abstinence from Chronic Intermittent Ethanol Vapor Exposure.

scientific article

Cebranopadol Blocks the Escalation of Cocaine Intake and Conditioned Reinstatement of Cocaine Seeking in Rats.

scientific article

Chronic exposure of rats to noise: relationship between long-term memory deficits and slow wave sleep disturbances.

scientific article published on 22 May 2006

Chronic nicotine activates stress/reward-related brain regions and facilitates the transition to compulsive alcohol drinking

scientific article

Compulsive-Like Sufentanil Vapor Self-Administration in Rats.

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

Control of craving by the prefrontal cortex.

scientific article published on 4 March 2013

Cortical and amygdalar neuronal ensembles in alcohol seeking, drinking and withdrawal

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

Craving, context and the cortex.

scientific article published on April 2011

Deletion of α5 nicotine receptor subunits abolishes nicotinic aversive motivational effects in a manner that phenocopies dopamine receptor antagonism.

scientific article published on 12 May 2017

Dopamine D1 and μ-opioid receptor antagonism blocks anticipatory 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalizations induced by palatable food cues in Wistar rats

scientific article

Dynorphin Counteracts Orexin in the Paraventricular Nucleus of the Thalamus: Cellular and Behavioral Evidence

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Effects of the combination of metyrapone and oxazepam on intravenous nicotine self-administration in rats.

scientific article

Effects of the specific α4β2 nAChR antagonist, 2-fluoro-3-(4-nitrophenyl) deschloroepibatidine, on nicotine reward-related behaviors in rats and mice

scientific article

Exposure to chronic intermittent nicotine vapor induces nicotine dependence

scientific article

Exposure to passive nicotine vapor in male adolescent rats produces a withdrawal-like state and facilitates nicotine self-administration during adulthood

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

Extended access nicotine self-administration with periodic deprivation increases immature neurons in the hippocampus

scientific article

Extended access to cocaine self-administration produces long-lasting prefrontal cortex-dependent working memory impairments.

scientific article

Gene expression changes consistent with neuroAIDS and impaired working memory in HIV-1 transgenic rats.

scientific article

Genetic and Pharmacologic Manipulation of TLR4 Has Minimal Impact on Ethanol Consumption in Rodents.

scientific article

Glucocorticoid receptor antagonism decreases alcohol seeking in alcohol-dependent individuals

scientific article

High-Frequency Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus Blocks Compulsive-Like Re-Escalation of Heroin Taking in Rats

scientific article

Inactivation of a CRF-dependent amygdalofugal pathway reverses addiction-like behaviors in alcohol-dependent rats

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Increased CRF signalling in a ventral tegmental area-interpeduncular nucleus-medial habenula circuit induces anxiety during nicotine withdrawal

scientific article published on 21 April 2015

Increases in compulsivity, inflammation, and neural injury in HIV transgenic rats with escalated methamphetamine self-administration under extended-access conditions

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Individual differences in cognitive aging: implication of pregnenolone sulfate.

scientific article published on September 2003

Individual differences in prefrontal cortex function and the transition from drug use to drug dependence

scientific article

Inhibition of Glyoxalase 1 reduces alcohol self-administration in dependent and nondependent rats.

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Insula to ventral striatal projections mediate compulsive eating produced by intermittent access to palatable food

scientific article published on 08 October 2019

Intermittent Access to Ethanol Drinking Facilitates the Transition to Excessive Drinking After Chronic Intermittent Ethanol Vapor Exposure

scientific article

Levels of Neural Progenitors in the Hippocampus Predict Memory Impairment and Relapse to Drug Seeking as a Function of Excessive Methamphetamine Self-Administration

scientific article published on December 28, 2011

Long-term antagonism of κ opioid receptors prevents escalation of and increased motivation for heroin intake

scientific article published on December 2013

Low brain allopregnanolone levels mediate flattened circadian activity associated with memory impairments in aged rats

scientific article

Median and Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons Control Moderate Versus Compulsive Cocaine Intake

scientific article

Motherhood-induced memory improvement persists across lifespan in rats but is abolished by a gestational stress.

scientific article published in June 2006

Negative reinforcement via motivational withdrawal is the driving force behind the transition to addiction.

scientific article published on 13 June 2014

Neuropeptide YY(2)R blockade in the central amygdala reduces anxiety-like behavior but not alcohol drinking in alcohol-dependent rats.

scientific article published on 03 May 2013

Neurosteroids and cholinergic systems: implications for sleep and cognitive processes and potential role of age-related changes.

scientific article

Nicotine Vapor Method to Induce Nicotine Dependence in Rodents.

scientific article published on 5 July 2017

Nicotine vapor inhalation escalates nicotine self-administration.

scientific article published on 14 December 2012

Recruitment of a Neuronal Ensemble in the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala Is Required for Alcohol Dependence.

scientific article published on September 2016

Robust escalation of nicotine intake with extended access to nicotine self-administration and intermittent periods of abstinence.

scientific article

Self-administered nicotine increases fat metabolism and suppresses weight gain in male rats.

scientific article published on 21 January 2018

Sleep-wake states and cortical synchronization control by pregnenolone sulfate into the pedunculopontine nucleus.

scientific article

Subthalamic nucleus high frequency stimulation prevents and reverses escalated cocaine use

scientific article published on 07 June 2018

Systemic Administration of the Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor (S)-CR8 Selectively Reduces Escalated Ethanol Intake in Dependent Rats

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Systemic and Intra-Habenular Activation of the Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptor GPR139 Decreases Compulsive-Like Alcohol Drinking and Hyperalgesia in Alcohol-Dependent Rats.

scientific article published in May 2018

VTA CRF neurons mediate the aversive effects of nicotine withdrawal and promote intake escalation.

scientific article

Validation of a nicotine vapor self-administration model in rats with relevance to electronic cigarette use

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Virus-mediated shRNA knockdown of prodynorphin in the rat nucleus accumbens attenuates depression-like behavior and cocaine locomotor sensitization

scientific article

Voluntary induction and maintenance of alcohol dependence in rats using alcohol vapor self-administration

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Voluntary urination control by brainstem neurons that relax the urethral sphincter

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

κ Opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell mediate escalation of methamphetamine intake

scientific article