Women are more sensitive to cocaine craving elicited by stimuli associated with relapse.
Ovarian hormones modulate cocaine craving and may therefore function as risk factors or …

Exercise is known to have a myriad of health benefits. There is much to be learned from the
effects of exercise and its potential for prevention, attenuation and treatment of multiple …

Rationale Preclinical studies indicate that gonadal hormones are important determinants of
drug self-administration. To date, little is known about the influence of sex and estrous cycle …

Background Females are more vulnerable to developing cocaine addiction compared with
males, a phenomenon that may be regulated by the steroid hormone 17β-estradiol. 17β …

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) manifests differently in men and women, but little is known about
sex differences in the brain's response to ethanol. It is known that the steroid hormone 17β …

Clinically, women appear to be more susceptible to certain aspects of substance use
disorders (SUDs). The steroid hormones 17β-estradiol (E2) and progesterone (Pg) have …

Women are more susceptible to developing cocaine dependence than men, but
paradoxically, are more responsive to treatment. The potent estrogen, 17β-estradiol (E2) …

Women rapidly progress from recreational cocaine use to dependence, consume greater
quantities of cocaine, experience more positive subjective effects of cocaine and have …

Introduction Interoceptive stimuli elicited by drug administration acquire conditioned
modulatory properties of the induction of conditioned appetitive behaviours by exteroceptive …

Cocaine addiction afflicts nearly 1 million adults in the United States, and to date, there are
no known treatments approved for this psychiatric condition. Women are particularly …