Main description:

Animal Models for Medications Screening to Treat Addiction, the latest volume in the International Review of Neurobiology series, provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research on the topic. It reviews the current knowledge and understanding in the field, presenting a starting point for researchers and practitioners entering the field.

Contents:

1. Animal models of Methamphetamine-abuse to screen pharamcotherapeutic interventions for addiction

Arlington George Wilson

2. Identification of treatment targets in a genetic mouse model of voluntary methamphetamine drinking

Tamara J. Phillips

3. Animal models for screening drugs to treat cannabis dependence: a translational perspective

Bernard Le Foll

4. Rodent models to screen clinically-effective smoking cessation agents

Mohammed Shoaib

5. An Animal Model of Alcohol Dependence to Screen Medications for Treating Alcoholism

Howard C. Becker

6. Variance in Ethanol Intake and Its Correlates Among Wistar Rats from Different Vendors: Its Impact on Medications Screening to Treat Alcohol Abuse and Dependence

Ingrid Nylander

7. Rat Lines Genetically Selected to Develop High Alcohol-Consuming Behavior and Dependence: Behavioral Correlates Paralleling Features Found in the Dually-Diagnosed Patient

Erika Roman

8. Screening Signature Compounds in the P and HAD Rat Animal Models of Alcoholism: A Survey of Results Focusing on Statistical Power and Effect Size

Richard L. Bell

9. Animal models and the development of vaccines to treat and/or prevent substance use disorders

Colin N. Haile

10. Genes and Excessive Alcohol Intake: Using Mutant Mice to Pinpoint Molecular Systems as Drugable Targets to Treat Alcohol Use Disorders

Robert Adron Harris

11. Gene Targeting Studies of Physical and Affective States of Alcohol Withdrawal in Rodents

Gian D. Greenberg

12. Abstinence Conflict Model: Toward an Optimal Animal Model for Human Drug Abstinence

Joshua Alan Peck

13. Prairie vole as a model to screen medications for the treatment of alcoholism and addictions: A Mini-Review

Andrey E. Ryabinin

14. Animal Models for Medication Development and Application to Treat Fetal Alcohol Effects

Susan Barron

15. Using In Vitro Electrophysiological Approaches to Screen for Novel Drug Targets: Accumbal Plasticity as an Engram of Alcohol Dependence

Richard Morrisett

16. C. elegans: A Behavioral Model System to Screen Medications for the Treatment of Addiction

Eric A. Engleman

17. Animal Models for Medications Screening Targeting the Treatment of Addiction: Caveats and Future Directions

Shafiqur Rahman