Drugs of abuse: anatomy, pharmacology and function of reward pathways.

Abstract:

:Drugs of abuse are very powerful reinforcers, and even in conditions of limited access (where the organism is not dependent) these drugs will motivate high rates of operant responding. This presumed hedonic property and the drugs' neuropharmacological specificity provide a means of studying the neuropharmacology and neuroanatomy of brain reward. Three major brain systems appear to be involved in drug reward--dopamine, opioid and GABA. Evidence suggests a midbrain-forebrain-extrapyramidal circuit with its focus in the nucleus accumbens. Data implicating dopamine and opioid systems in indirect sympathomimetic and opiate reward include critical elements in both the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental areas. Ethanol reward appears to depend on an interaction with the GABAA receptor complex but may also involve common elements such as dopamine and opioid peptides in this midbrain-forebrain-extrapyramidal circuit. These results suggest that brain reward systems have a multidetermined neuropharmacological basis that may involve some common neuroanatomical elements.

journal_name

Trends Pharmacol Sci

authors

Koob GF

doi

10.1016/0165-6147(92)90060-j

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1992-05-01 00:00:00

pages

177-84

issue

5

eissn

0165-6147

issn

1873-3735

pii

0165-6147(92)90060-J

journal_volume

13

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