Congratulations to Cara Buck who obtained her PhD today. She was given the challenge of setting up a brand new technique in the lab...

People often assume that their neurons are only there to do good things. While I mostly agree, I believe there are bad neurons in our...

12 million light years separate these two pictures. On the right is a picture of Orphan stars that don't belong to any galaxy, discovered...

This is to me one of the most important paper of the decade in the addiction field. It kicks to the curb both the incentive sensitization...

The lab has just been awarded a new 5 year grant by the NIH to study Alcohol Vapor Self-Administration. Very excited to start this new...

Extended access to nicotine leads to a CRF1 receptor dependent increase in anxiety-like behavior and hyperalgesia in rats. Addiction...

Addiction as a stress surfeit disorder ​Neuropharmacology. 2013 Jun 6 Koob GF, Buck CL, Cohen A, Edwards S, Park PE, Schlosburg JE,...

Animal models of nicotine exposure: relevance to second-hand smoking, electronic cigarette use, and compulsive smoking Front Psychiatry....

Control of craving by the prefrontal cortex ​PNAS. 2013 Mar 12; 110(11):4165-6: George O and Koob GF #prefrontalcortex #addiction...

Hippocampal neurogenesis protects against cocaine-primed relapse. ​​Addiction Biology. 2012 Dec 24 Deschaux O, Vendruscolo LF, Schlosburg...

Neuropsychopharmacology. 2012 Aug;37(9):2153-60. doi: 10.1038/npp.2012.67. Epub 2012 May 2. Robust escalation of nicotine intake with...