Chronic nicotine increases midbrain dopamine neuron activity and biases individual strategies towards reduced exploration in mice

Long-term exposure to nicotine alters brain circuits and induces profound changes in decision-making strategies, affecting behaviors both related and unrelated to drug seeking and consumption. Using an intracranial self-stimulation reward-based foraging task, we investigated in mice the impact of ch...

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Published inNature communications Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 6945 - 15
Main Authors Dongelmans, Malou, Durand-de Cuttoli, Romain, Nguyen, Claire, Come, Maxime, Duranté, Etienne K., Lemoine, Damien, Brito, Raphaël, Ahmed Yahia, Tarek, Mondoloni, Sarah, Didienne, Steve, Bousseyrol, Elise, Hannesse, Bernadette, Reynolds, Lauren M., Torquet, Nicolas, Dalkara, Deniz, Marti, Fabio, Mourot, Alexandre, Naudé, Jérémie, Faure, Philippe
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 26.11.2021
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