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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2012 Dec 29;130(0):1–12. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2012.12.005

TABLE 2.

Effects of Addictive Drugs on Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Rodents

Drug Neurogenic Effects by Dosing Cell Death Effects* Author, Year
Acute Chronic Withdrawal
Nicotine P Abrous, 2002
Nicotine D/S Shingo, 2005
Nicotine P Scerri, 2006
Nicotine 0P Mudo, 2007
Alcohol P P/S Nixon, 2002
Alcohol S Herrera, 2003
Alcohol P P Nixon, 2004
Alcohol P/S He, 2005
Alcohol P/S Crews, 2006
Alcohol P Nixon, 2008
Alcohol S Hernandez-Rabaza, 2010
Alcohol P Alen, 2010
Opioids 0P P/S Eisch, 2000
Opioids P Mandyam, 2004
Opioids P/D P Kahn, 2005
Opioids 0P P Fisher, 2008
Opioids P/D Arguello, 2008
Opioids P Arguello, 2009
Cocaine 0P P Yamaguchi, 2004
Cocaine 0P P Yamaguchi, 2005
Cocaine P P 0 Dominguez-Escriba, 2006
Cocaine P P/D 0 Noonan, 2008
Cocaine 0P P/S P/S Garcia-Fuster, 2010
Amphetamine (meth) P 0 Teuchert-Noodt, 2000
Amphetamine 0P Mao, 2001
Amphetamine (meth) P/D P/D/S Mandyam, 2008
Amphetamine 0P/S S 0 Barr, 2010
Amphetamine(meth) P P/S Recinto, 2011
Methylphenidate 0P S Lagace, 2006
MDMA P Cho, 2007
MDMA S Hernandez-Rabaza, 2010
Cannabinoids P/D synthetic Jiang, 2005
Cannabinoids 0P D9-THC Kochman, 2006
Cannabinoids 0P/D synthetic Mackowiak, 2007
Cannabinoids P synthetic Alen, 2010

0 =no change found

↑ increase

↓ decrease

P=Proliferation

D=Differentiation (e.g. into neurons)

S=survival

*

Drug shown to kill neurons as evidenced by markers that may label either old or young DG neurons All data restricted to rodent models