OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Addiction Biology is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Does Not Change Implicit Associations Against Alcohol in Alcohol Use Disorder: A Preregistered Clinical Trial	30
Repeated blast mild traumatic brain injury and oxycodone self‐administration produce interactive effects on neuroimaging outcomes	29
Cannabinoid receptor availability modulates the magnitude of dopamine release in vivo in the human reward system: A preliminary multitracer positron emission tomography study	29
Alcohol and cannabis co‐use and longitudinal gray matter volumetric changes in early and late adolescence	28
Insular volumetry in severe alcohol use disorder and Korsakoff's syndrome through an anatomical parcellation: Let us go back to basics	27
Vaping—An Emerging Threat to Youngsters of Pakistan	27
Increased AGE–RAGE axis stress in methamphetamine abuse and methamphetamine‐induced psychosis: Associations with oxidative stress and increased atherogenicity	27
Efficacy and safety of antidepressants for smoking cessation: A systematic review and network meta‐analysis	26
A multivariate approach to understanding the genetic overlap between externalizing phenotypes and substance use disorders	26
Sex differences in acute cannabis effects revisited: Results from two randomized, controlled trials	26
Microglia activity in the human basal ganglia is altered in alcohol use disorder and reversed with remission from alcohol	24
The ReCoDe addiction research consortium: Losing and regaining control over drug intake—Findings and future perspectives	24
Repeated low doses of LSD in healthy adults: A placebo‐controlled, dose–response study	24
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Cocaine cue‐induced mesocorticolimbic activation in cocaine users: Effects of personality traits, lifetime drug use, and acute stimulant ingestion	22
Serotonergic and dopaminergic control of impulsivity in gambling disorder	21
Adolescent exposure to sucrose increases cocaine‐mediated behaviours in adulthood via Smad3	20
Interaction of JNK and mGluR5 in the regulation of psychomotor behaviours after repeated cocaine administration	20
A single‐nucleus transcriptomics study of alcohol use disorder in the nucleus accumbens	19
Prelimbic cortex dynorphin/κ opioid receptor system modulates methamphetamine‐induced cognitive impairment	19
An epigenetic candidate–gene association study of parental styles in suicide attempters with substance use disorders	19
Epigenome‐wide association study on methamphetamine dependence	18

Vicarious defeat stress induces increased alcohol consumption in female mice: Role of neurokinin‐1 receptor and interleukin‐6	18
Standardised cannabis metrics: Opportunities for tracking how cannabis use affects neurodevelopmental trajectories in youth cohorts worldwide	17
Extreme phenotypic diversity in operant response to intravenous cocaine or saline infusion in the hybrid mouse diversity panel	17
Repeated cocaine or methamphetamine treatment alters astrocytic CRF2 and GLAST expression in the ventral midbrain	17
N‐acetylcysteine as a treatment for substance use cravings: A meta‐analysis	17
Brain and cortisol responses to smoking cues are linked in tobacco‐smoking individuals	17
Correction to “Epigenetic and Sex Differences in Opioid Use Disorder in Chronic Pain: A Real‐World Study Linked With OPRM1 DNA Methylation”	16
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Blockade of endocannabinoid system by oxytocin attenuates memory deficits in oxycodone‐treated rats	15
Mifepristone as a pharmacological intervention for stress‐induced alcohol craving: A human laboratory study	14
Paternal preconception alcohol consumption increased Angiotensin II‐mediated vasoconstriction in male offspring cerebral arteries via oxidative stress‐AT1R pathway	14
Δ⁹‐Tetrahydrocannabinol self‐administration induces cell type‐specific adaptations in the nucleus accumbens core	14
Effective alleviation of depressive and anxious symptoms and sleep disorders in benzodiazepine‐dependent patients through repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation	14
Increased ventral anterior insular connectivity to sports betting availability indexes problem gambling	14
Voluntary alcohol binge‐drinking in adolescent C57Bl6 mice induces delayed appearance of behavioural defects in both males and females	13
Adolescent social isolation induced alterations in nucleus accumbens glutamate signalling	13
Activation of trace amine‐associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) transiently reduces alcohol drinking in socially housed mice	13
Changes in interoception after alcohol administration correlate with expectancies and subjective effects	13
Sex‐specific metabolic signatures in methamphetamine addicts	13
Within‐person decline in pregnancy smoking is observable prior to pregnancy awareness: Evidence across two independent observational cohorts	13
Circadian gene × environment perturbations influence alcohol drinking in Cryptochrome‐deficient mice	13
Cortical thickness and related depressive symptoms in early abstinence from chronic methamphetamine use	13
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Altered Functional Connectivity Dynamics Serving Cognitive Flexibility in Regular Cannabis Users	12
Social setting interacts with hyper dopamine to boost the stimulant effect of ethanol	12
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Transcriptional signatures of fentanyl use in the mouse ventral tegmental area	12
Chemogenetic inhibition of corticostriatal circuits reduces cued reinstatement of methamphetamine seeking	12
Orbitofrontal cortex to dorsal striatum circuit is critical for incubation of oxycodone craving after forced abstinence	12
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Combined effects of methadone and quetiapine on respiratory rate, haemodynamic variables, and temperature in conscious rats	12
Effects of Cigarette Smoking and 3‐Day Smoking Abstinence on Translocator Protein 18 kDa Availability: A [¹⁸F]FEPPA Positron Emission Tomography Study	12
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Midazolam, methamphetamine, morphine and nicotine intake in high‐drinking‐in‐the‐dark mice	11
Alcohol use disorder in the COVID‐19 era: Position paper of the Italian Society on Alcohol (SIA)	11
Self‐control impacts symptoms defining Internet gaming disorder through dorsal anterior cingulate–ventral striatal pathway	11
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The switching process from buprenorphine sublingual tablets to the monthly buprenorphine subcutaneous depot injection in opioid dependent patients	11
Neurobeachin, a promising target for use in the treatment of alcohol use disorder	10
The potential of 5‐methoxy‐N,N‐dimethyltryptamine in the treatment of alcohol use disorder: A first look at therapeutic mechanisms of action	10
Sex‐specific neurobehavioural outcomes and brain stimulation pattern in adult offspring paternally exposed to methamphetamine	10
Methamphetamine‐related working memory difficulties underpinned by reduced frontoparietal responses	10
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Substance use patterns, quantities, and associated risk factors in women with polysubstance misuse	10
Neural responses to stress and alcohol cues in individuals with pain with and without alcohol use disorder	10
Chronic ethanol exposure induced anxiety‐like behaviour by altering gut microbiota and GABA system	10

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Immediate and lasting effects of different regulation of craving strategies on cue‐induced craving and the late positive potential in smokers	10
Activation of Epac in the BLA disrupts reconsolidation and attenuates heroin‐seeking behaviour	10
A dual mechanism fully blocks ethanol relapse: Role of vagal innervation	10
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Impact of online poker gambling on behavioural and neurophysiological responses to a virtual gambling task	9
Increased white blood cell in young adults with family histories of alcohol and other substance use disorders	9
Effects of acute and repeated administration of the selective M₄ PAM VU0152099 on cocaine versus food choice in male rats	9
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Intra‐striatal dopaminergic inter‐subject covariance in social drinkers and non‐treatment‐seeking alcohol use disorder participants	9
Global, interhemispheric and intrahemispheric functional connection patterns in male adults with alcohol use disorder	9
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Brain‐specific serine/threonine‐protein kinase 1 is a substrate of protein kinase C epsilon involved in sex‐specific ethanol and anxiety phenotypes	9
Cannabis use selectively modulates circulating biomarkers in the blood of schizophrenia patients	9
More than just statics: Temporal dynamic changes of intrinsic brain activity in cigarette smoking	8
The glucagon‐like peptide‐1 system is modulated by acute and chronic alcohol exposure: Findings from human laboratory experiments and a post‐mortem brain study	8
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Structural Cerebellar and Lateral Frontoparietal Networks are altered in CUD: An SBM Analysis	8
Gonadal hormones and sex chromosome complement differentially contribute to ethanol intake, preference, and relapse‐like behaviour in four core genotypes mice	8
The risk of cannabis use disorder is mediated by altered brain connectivity: A chronnectome study	8
Aversive drug cues reduce cigarette craving and increase prefrontal cortex activation during processing of cigarette cues in quitting motivated smokers	8
How alcohol makes the epigenetic clock tick faster and the clock reversing effect of abstinence	8
Alcohol sensitivity and tolerance encoding in sleep regulatory circadian neurons in Drosophila	8
Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Restores Cognitive Impairment in Morphine‐Withdrawn Rats: Role of BDNF and Glial Cells in the Hippocampus	8
Prognostic factors for low‐risk drinking and relapse in alcohol use disorder: A multimodal analysis	8
K_v7 channel opener retigabine reduces self‐administration of cocaine but not sucrose in rats	8
The effects of age on the severity of problem drinking: Mediating effects of positive alcohol expectancy and neural correlates	8
Integrated metabolomics and network pharmacology to reveal the mechanism of areca nut addiction	8
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Fentanyl‐induced respiratory depression in rodents is inhibited by bioabsorbable, subcutaneous naltrexone implants at 3.5 months	8
Multi‐omics analysis of alcohol effects on the liver in young and aged mice	8
Sex differences in the subjective and reinforcing effects of smoked cannabis	7
Extinction and reinstatement of methamphetamine‐induced conditioned place preference in zebrafish	7
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Moderate prenatal alcohol exposure produces sex‐specific social impairments and attenuates prelimbic excitability and amygdala‐cortex modulation of adult social behaviour	7
Prenatal methadone exposure leads to long‐term memory impairments and disruptions of dentate granule cell function in a sex‐dependent manner	7
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Anomalies in global network connectivity associated with early recovery from alcohol dependence: A network transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography study	7
The association between adverse childhood experiences and alterations in brain volume and cortical thickness in adults with alcohol use disorder	7
Connectome‐based prediction of craving for gaming in internet gaming disorder	7
Lymphocyte‐related ratios in methamphetamine‐induced psychotic disorder in Taiwan, comparing with patients with schizophrenia	7
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Sex‐specific plasticity in CRF regulation of inhibitory control in central amygdala CRF1 neurons after chronic voluntary alcohol drinking	7
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Evaluating instrumental learning and striatal–cortical functional connectivity in adolescent alcohol and cannabis use	7
Cocaine falls into oblivion during volitional initiation of choice trials	7
β‐caryophyllene, a cannabinoid receptor 2 agonist, decreases the motivational salience and conditioning place preference for palatable food in female mice	7