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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 14.
Published in final edited form as: Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2012 Feb;1248:39–70. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06415.x

Table 2.

Animal models of human addiction characteristics/processes for which there is evidence of a strong genetic basis

Addiction
Characteristic/Process
Page Model (s)
Strength of Dependence 16 IV Self-administration including concurrent punishment schedule, progressive ratio, extinction and reinstatement
Oral self-administration with assessment of withdrawal
Cognition:
  Conditioning/Habit Mechanisms 26 Conditioned Place Preference
Withdrawal-induced Place Avoidance
Cue-induced reinstatement
Habit: Reinforcer devaluation after over-learning
  Withdrawal Deficits in Memory/Cognition 32 Delay cue/contextual conditioning - baseline and nicotine withdrawal
5-choice serial reaction time task- baseline and nicotine withdrawal
Schizophrenia model of impaired prepulse inhibition of startle
  Rate of Extinction 40 Extinction of Conditioned Place Preference
IV Self-administration extinction; extinction of cue-induced reinstatement
  Craving 42 Cue, drug and stress-induced reinstatement of CPP
Cue, drug and stress-induced reinstatement of self-administration
  Incubation 43 Self-administration incubation procedure
Non-cognitive withdrawal symptoms 44 Chronic Nicotine/Withdrawal regulation of weight and food intake
Stress relief 45 Extent to which nicotine self-administration (oral or iv) is increased in response to acute or repeated stressors
Affective symptoms in withdrawal 48 Effect of withdrawal in standard depression/anxiety models, including assessment of anhedonia by ICSS or sucrose preference procedures
Impaired delayed discounting 49 Delayed discounting for food/nicotine reinforcement