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  • Title: Differential effects of ventral striatal lesions on the conditioned place preference induced by morphine or amphetamine.
    Author: Olmstead MC, Franklin KB.
    Journal: Neuroscience; 1996 Apr; 71(3):701-8. PubMed ID: 8867042.
    Abstract:
    The present experiment examined the role of the ventral striatum in the rewarding effect of morphine and amphetamine by testing whether lesions of cell bodies within this region disrupt the development of a conditioned place preference to either drug. Bilateral, N-methyl-D-aspartate- or kainic acid-induced lesions of the ventral striatum block a conditioned place preference to amphetamine (1.5 mg/kg x 3 pairings) but not to morphine (2 mg/kg x 3 pairings). Because both lesions spared anterior portions of the ventral striatum, we examined the effect of larger or more selective ventral striatal lesions on a conditioned place preference induced by morphine. Destruction of the entire ventral striatum reduced, but did not eliminate, a conditioned place preference to morphine, whereas selective lesions of the anterior ventral striatum were ineffective. These results indicate that the ventral striatum is not critically involved in morphine's rewarding effect and support the suggestion that the rewarding effects of opiates and stimulants do not involve identical neural substrates.
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