Neuronal and glial structural plasticity induced by drugs of abuse

• Main Author: M Foster Olive (auth)
• Other Authors: Justin Gass (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Pharmacology; Dopamine; Neuron; Addiction; Spine; GABA; plasticity; Glutamate; glia; astrocyte; Dendrite
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Drugs of abuse induce a host of alterations in brain structure and function, ranging from changes in gene expression and epigenetic processes to aberrant synaptic plasticity to volumetric changes in discrete brain regions. These alterations can be drug class-specific, and are not confined to neurons...