OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Addiction Biology is 6. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

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Cannabinoid receptor availability modulates the magnitude of dopamine release in vivo in the human reward system: A preliminary multitracer positron emission tomography study	58
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Vaping—An Emerging Threat to Youngsters of Pakistan	35
Increased AGE–RAGE axis stress in methamphetamine abuse and methamphetamine‐induced psychosis: Associations with oxidative stress and increased atherogenicity	32
Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Does Not Change Implicit Associations Against Alcohol in Alcohol Use Disorder: A Preregistered Clinical Trial	32
Insular volumetry in severe alcohol use disorder and Korsakoff's syndrome through an anatomical parcellation: Let us go back to basics	30
Repeated blast mild traumatic brain injury and oxycodone self‐administration produce interactive effects on neuroimaging outcomes	29
The ReCoDe addiction research consortium: Losing and regaining control over drug intake—Findings and future perspectives	29
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Microglia activity in the human basal ganglia is altered in alcohol use disorder and reversed with remission from alcohol	28
Efficacy and safety of antidepressants for smoking cessation: A systematic review and network meta‐analysis	25
Alcohol and cannabis co‐use and longitudinal gray matter volumetric changes in early and late adolescence	24
Sex differences in acute cannabis effects revisited: Results from two randomized, controlled trials	23
An epigenetic candidate–gene association study of parental styles in suicide attempters with substance use disorders	22
Repeated low doses of LSD in healthy adults: A placebo‐controlled, dose–response study	22
A multivariate approach to understanding the genetic overlap between externalizing phenotypes and substance use disorders	22
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Adolescent exposure to sucrose increases cocaine‐mediated behaviours in adulthood via Smad3	21
The Impact of Physical Activity on Sleep in Alcohol Users: A Systematic Review	21
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Interaction of JNK and mGluR5 in the regulation of psychomotor behaviours after repeated cocaine administration	19
A single‐nucleus transcriptomics study of alcohol use disorder in the nucleus accumbens	17
Vicarious defeat stress induces increased alcohol consumption in female mice: Role of neurokinin‐1 receptor and interleukin‐6	17
Serotonergic and dopaminergic control of impulsivity in gambling disorder	17
Prelimbic cortex dynorphin/κ opioid receptor system modulates methamphetamine‐induced cognitive impairment	17

Brain and cortisol responses to smoking cues are linked in tobacco‐smoking individuals	16
Standardised cannabis metrics: Opportunities for tracking how cannabis use affects neurodevelopmental trajectories in youth cohorts worldwide	16
Exploring Post‐Retrieval Strategies to Reduce Drug Craving in Methamphetamine Use Disorders	16
Epigenome‐wide association study on methamphetamine dependence	15
Δ⁹‐Tetrahydrocannabinol self‐administration induces cell type‐specific adaptations in the nucleus accumbens core	14
Extreme phenotypic diversity in operant response to intravenous cocaine or saline infusion in the hybrid mouse diversity panel	14
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Impaired Interference Control in Individuals With Internet Addiction: Evidence From Event‐Related Potentials and Brain Oscillations	14
N‐acetylcysteine as a treatment for substance use cravings: A meta‐analysis	14
Sex‐specific metabolic signatures in methamphetamine addicts	13
Paternal preconception alcohol consumption increased Angiotensin II‐mediated vasoconstriction in male offspring cerebral arteries via oxidative stress‐AT1R pathway	13
Increased ventral anterior insular connectivity to sports betting availability indexes problem gambling	13
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Within‐person decline in pregnancy smoking is observable prior to pregnancy awareness: Evidence across two independent observational cohorts	13
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Correction to “Epigenetic and Sex Differences in Opioid Use Disorder in Chronic Pain: A Real‐World Study Linked With OPRM1 DNA Methylation”	13
Blockade of endocannabinoid system by oxytocin attenuates memory deficits in oxycodone‐treated rats	13
Effective alleviation of depressive and anxious symptoms and sleep disorders in benzodiazepine‐dependent patients through repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation	12
Mifepristone as a pharmacological intervention for stress‐induced alcohol craving: A human laboratory study	12
Age‐Dependent Differences in Cerebellar CB1 Receptor Expression and Its Association With Impulsivity and Alcohol Intake in Rats	12
Cortical thickness and related depressive symptoms in early abstinence from chronic methamphetamine use	12
Impaired Synaptic Activity in the Basolateral Amygdala Is Associated With an Alcohol Use Disorder‐Like Vulnerable Phenotype in Male Rats	12
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Brain Connectivity of the Cingulate Cortex in Alcohol Use Disorder: Exploring Its Association With Mindfulness	12
Activation of trace amine‐associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) transiently reduces alcohol drinking in socially housed mice	12
Orbitofrontal cortex to dorsal striatum circuit is critical for incubation of oxycodone craving after forced abstinence	12
Ovarian Hormones and Addictive Behaviour Vulnerability: Insights From Preclinical Studies	11
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Combined effects of methadone and quetiapine on respiratory rate, haemodynamic variables, and temperature in conscious rats	11
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Effects of Cigarette Smoking and 3‐Day Smoking Abstinence on Translocator Protein 18 kDa Availability: A [¹⁸F]FEPPA Positron Emission Tomography Study	11
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Altered Functional Connectivity Dynamics Serving Cognitive Flexibility in Regular Cannabis Users	11
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Opioid Dependence: Evidence of Neuroimmune Activation and Ion Composition Changes, Without Alteration in Orexin‐A	11
Midazolam, methamphetamine, morphine and nicotine intake in high‐drinking‐in‐the‐dark mice	11
Transcriptional signatures of fentanyl use in the mouse ventral tegmental area	11
Social setting interacts with hyper dopamine to boost the stimulant effect of ethanol	11
The switching process from buprenorphine sublingual tablets to the monthly buprenorphine subcutaneous depot injection in opioid dependent patients	10
Neural responses to stress and alcohol cues in individuals with pain with and without alcohol use disorder	10
Effects of acute and repeated administration of the selective M ₄ PAM VU0152099 on cocaine versus food choice in male rats	10
Sex‐specific neurobehavioural outcomes and brain stimulation pattern in adult offspring paternally exposed to methamphetamine	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
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Substance use patterns, quantities, and associated risk factors in women with polysubstance misuse	10
A dual mechanism fully blocks ethanol relapse: Role of vagal innervation	10
Self‐control impacts symptoms defining Internet gaming disorder through dorsal anterior cingulate–ventral striatal pathway	10
Activation of Epac in the BLA disrupts reconsolidation and attenuates heroin‐seeking behaviour	10
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Methamphetamine‐related working memory difficulties underpinned by reduced frontoparietal responses	10
The potential of 5‐methoxy‐N,N‐dimethyltryptamine in the treatment of alcohol use disorder: A first look at therapeutic mechanisms of action	9
Brain‐specific serine/threonine‐protein kinase 1 is a substrate of protein kinase C epsilon involved in sex‐specific ethanol and anxiety phenotypes	9
PACAP Signalling Network in the Nucleus Accumbens Core Regulates Reinstatement Behaviour in Rat	9
Chronic ethanol exposure induced anxiety‐like behaviour by altering gut microbiota and GABA system	9
The effects of age on the severity of problem drinking: Mediating effects of positive alcohol expectancy and neural correlates	9
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Fentanyl‐induced respiratory depression in rodents is inhibited by bioabsorbable, subcutaneous naltrexone implants at 3.5 months	8
Grey Matter Volume in Substance Use: A Preregistered, Dimensional Approach to Disentangle Substance Use and Disorder Severity	8
Integrated metabolomics and network pharmacology to reveal the mechanism of areca nut addiction	8
How alcohol makes the epigenetic clock tick faster and the clock reversing effect of abstinence	8
K _v 7 channel opener retigabine reduces self‐administration of cocaine but not sucrose in rats	8
Cannabis use selectively modulates circulating biomarkers in the blood of schizophrenia patients	8
The risk of cannabis use disorder is mediated by altered brain connectivity: A chronnectome study	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
Impact of online poker gambling on behavioural and neurophysiological responses to a virtual gambling task	8
Alcohol sensitivity and tolerance encoding in sleep regulatory circadian neurons in Drosophila	8
Intra‐striatal dopaminergic inter‐subject covariance in social drinkers and non‐treatment‐seeking alcohol use disorder participants	8
Evaluating instrumental learning and striatal–cortical functional connectivity in adolescent alcohol and cannabis use	8
Machine Learning Classification of Smoking Behaviours—From Social Environment to the Prefrontal Cortex	8
Global, interhemispheric and intrahemispheric functional connection patterns in male adults with alcohol use disorder	8
Increased white blood cell in young adults with family histories of alcohol and other substance use disorders	8
Cocaine falls into oblivion during volitional initiation of choice trials	8
Prognostic factors for low‐risk drinking and relapse in alcohol use disorder: A multimodal analysis	7
Gonadal hormones and sex chromosome complement differentially contribute to ethanol intake, preference, and relapse‐like behaviour in four core genotypes mice	7
Lymphocyte‐related ratios in methamphetamine‐induced psychotic disorder in Taiwan, comparing with patients with schizophrenia	7
Sex differences in the subjective and reinforcing effects of smoked cannabis	7
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Multi‐omics analysis of alcohol effects on the liver in young and aged mice	7
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Alcoholic Hepatitis in a Japanese Hospital: Losing Contact With Some Patients After Delirium Tremens May Lead to Missed Critical Events	7
Extinction and reinstatement of methamphetamine‐induced conditioned place preference in zebrafish	7
Prenatal methadone exposure leads to long‐term memory impairments and disruptions of dentate granule cell function in a sex‐dependent manner	7
Structural Cerebellar and Lateral Frontoparietal Networks are altered in CUD: An SBM Analysis	7
Moderate prenatal alcohol exposure produces sex‐specific social impairments and attenuates prelimbic excitability and amygdala‐cortex modulation of adult social behaviour	7
Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Restores Cognitive Impairment in Morphine‐Withdrawn Rats: Role of BDNF and Glial Cells in the Hippocampus	7
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Modelling Incentive Salience in Adolescent Substance Use: The Influence of Substance Cues, Alcohol Expectancies and Socio‐Environmental Factors	7
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β‐caryophyllene, a cannabinoid receptor 2 agonist, decreases the motivational salience and conditioning place preference for palatable food in female mice	6
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Impact of cyclooxygenase‐2 inhibition on cannabis withdrawal and circulating endocannabinoids in daily cannabis smokers	6
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Family History of Substance Use and Stressful Life Events Impact Adolescent Maturation of Cerebral White Matter	6
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Functional correlates of neurological soft signs in heavy cannabis users	6
Shifted Balance Between Ventral Striatal Prodynorphin and Proenkephalin Biases Development of Cocaine Place Avoidance	6
Associations between electronic devices use and common mental traits: A gene–environment interaction model using the UK Biobank data	6
Ketone Supplements and Alcohol‐Related Responses in Rodents	6
Assessing combined effects of varenicline and N‐acetylcysteine on reducing nicotine seeking in rats	6
Chronic Intermittent Ethanol and Withdrawal Suppress Evoked and Spontaneous GABA Release Onto Distinct Populations of Basolateral Amygdala Principal Neurons	6
Sex differences in endocannabinoid tone in a pilot study of cannabis use disorder and acute cannabis abstinence	6
Correlation of striatal dopamine D2/3 receptor availability with GABA level in the anterior cingulate cortex in healthy controls but not in alcohol‐dependent subjects and individuals at high risk: A m	6
Co‐administration of morphine and levamisole increases death risk, produces neutropenia and modifies antinociception in mice	6
The association between adverse childhood experiences and alterations in brain volume and cortical thickness in adults with alcohol use disorder	6
Analysis of the brain transcriptome for substance‐associated genes: An update on large‐scale genome‐wide association studies	6
Anomalies in global network connectivity associated with early recovery from alcohol dependence: A network transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography study	6
Alcohol use and grey matter structure: Disentangling predispositional and causal contributions in human studies	6
Gegen‐Qinlian decoction—A traditional Chinese medicine formula—Alleviates methamphetamine withdrawal induced anxiety by targeting GABAergic interneuron‐pyramidal neuron pathway in mPFC	6