Can cocaine-induced neuroinflammation explain maladaptive cocaine-associated memories?

Autor: Mary C. Olmstead, Pascal Romieu, Katia Befort, Caroline Correia
Přispěvatelé: Department of Psychology, Queen's University [Kingston, Canada], Laboratoire de neurosciences cognitives et adaptatives (LNCA), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Oxford: Elsevier Ltd., 2020, 111, pp.69-83. ⟨10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.01.001⟩
ISSN: 1873-7528
Popis: Persistent and intrusive memories define a number of psychiatric disorders, including posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder. In the latter, memory for drug-paired cues plays a critical role in sustaining compulsive drug use as these are potent triggers of relapse. As with many drugs, cocaine-cue associated memory is strengthened across presentations as cues become reliable predictors of drug availability. Recently, the targeting of cocaine-associated memory through disruption of the reconsolidation process has emerged as a potential therapeutic strategy; reconsolidation reflects the active process by which memory is re-stabilized after retrieval. In addition, a separate line of work reveals that neuroinflammatory markers, regulated by cocaine intake, play a role in memory processes. Our review brings these two literatures together by summarizing recent findings on cocaine-associated reconsolidation and cocaine-induced neuroinflammation. We discuss the interactions between reconsolidation processes and neuroinflammation following cocaine use, concluding with a new perspective on treatment to decrease risk of relapse to cocaine use.
Databáze: OpenAIRE