How do specific brain circuits contribute to drug relapse?

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How to context-drug associations formed during adolescence contribute to future drug relapse?

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Are neurogenic mechanisms involved in the reconsolidation of drug-associated contextual memories?

 

To answer these questions, our lab utilizes multidisciplinary approaches including:

• in vivo viral and DREADD-mediated manipulations

• western blotting and immunohistochemistry

• adult and adolescent rodent models of drug relapse

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