The molecular basis of drug addiction: linking epigenetic to synaptic and circuit mechanisms

EJ Nestler, C Lüscher - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Addiction is a disease in which, after a period of recreational use, a subset of individuals
develops compulsive use that does not stop even in light of major negative consequences …

How the epigenome integrates information and reshapes the synapse

RR Campbell, MA Wood - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
In the past few decades, the field of neuroepigenetics has investigated how the brain
encodes information to form long-lasting memories that lead to stable changes in behaviour …

Single nucleus transcriptomics of ventral midbrain identifies glial activation associated with chronic opioid use disorder

J Wei, TY Lambert, A Valada, N Patel, K Walker… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Dynamic interactions of neurons and glia in the ventral midbrain mediate reward and
addiction behavior. We studied gene expression in 212,713 ventral midbrain single nuclei …

In vivo locus-specific editing of the neuroepigenome

YY Yim, CD Teague, EJ Nestler - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Studies over the past several decades have identified numerous epigenetic mechanisms
associated with pathological states in psychiatric and neurological disease. Until recently …

Engineering of effector domains for targeted DNA methylation with reduced off-target effects

D Hofacker, J Broche, L Laistner, S Adam… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Epigenome editing is a promising technology, potentially allowing the stable reprogramming
of gene expression profiles without alteration of the DNA sequence. Targeted DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Examining the biological mechanisms of human mental disorders resulting from gene-environment interdependence using novel functional genomic …

PP Silveira, MJ Meaney - Neurobiology of Disease, 2023 - Elsevier
We explore how functional genomics approaches that integrate datasets from human and
non-human model systems can improve our understanding of the effect of gene …

Epigenetics of drug addiction

AF Stewart, SL Fulton, I Maze - Cold Spring …, 2021 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are chronic brain diseases characterized by transitions
from recreational to compulsive drug use and aberrant drug craving that persists for months …

DNA epigenetics in addiction susceptibility

G Kaplan, H Xu, K Abreu, J Feng - Frontiers in genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Addiction is a chronically relapsing neuropsychiatric disease that occurs in some, but not all,
individuals who use substances of abuse. Relatively little is known about the mechanisms …

Exposure to drugs of abuse induce effects that persist across generations

AM Baratta, RS Rathod, SL Plasil, A Seth… - International review of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Substance use disorders are highly prevalent and continue to be one of the leading causes
of disability in the world. Notably, not all people who use addictive drugs develop a …

Molecular windows into the human brain for psychiatric disorders

G Egervari, A Kozlenkov, S Dracheva, YL Hurd - Molecular psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
Delineating the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders has been extremely challenging
but technological advances in recent decades have facilitated a deeper interrogation of …