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Tu La

University of California San Diego

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Incentive Salience, not Psychomotor Sensitization or Tolerance, Drives Escalation of Cocaine Self-Administration in Heterogeneous Stock Rats

Jarryd Ramborger, Joseph Mosquera, Molly Brennan, Benjamin C. Sichel, Dyar N. Othman, Sonja Lorean Plasil, Elizabeth A. Sneddon, Sélène Bonnet-Zahedi, Alex Morgan, Supakorn Chonwattanagul, Kathleen Bai, Lindsey China, Tu La, Lisa Maturin, Lieselot L. G. Carrette, Olivier George

The paper identifies incentive salience as the driver of cocaine self-administration escalation in rats, showing individual differences in pre-lever activity predict long-term intake.

Neuropsychopharmacology · Jan 17, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience