Serge H. Ahmed

Overview

Best Publications

• Transition from moderate to excessive drug intake : Change in Hedonic set point

  S. H. Ahmed;G. F. Koob

  1312
  Citations

• Intense sweetness surpasses cocaine reward.

  Magalie Lenoir;Fuschia Serre;Lauriane Cantin;Serge H. Ahmed

  796
  Citations

• Neurobiological mechanisms in the transition from drug use to drug dependence

  George F Koob;Serge H Ahmed;Benjamin Boutrel;Scott A Chen

  720
  Citations

• Neurobiological evidence for hedonic allostasis associated with escalating cocaine use.

  Serge H Ahmed;Paul J Kenny;George F Koob;Athina Markou

  445
  Citations

• Persistent increase in the motivation to take heroin in rats with a history of drug escalation.

  Serge H Ahmed;John R Walker;George F Koob

  402
  Citations

• Long-lasting increase in the set point for cocaine self-administration after escalation in rats.

  Serge H. Ahmed;George F. Koob

  357
  Citations

• Cocaine-but not food-seeking behavior is reinstated by stress after extinction

  S. H. Ahmed;George F. Koob

  350
  Citations

• Transition to drug addiction: a negative reinforcement model based on an allostatic decrease in reward function.

  Serge H. Ahmed;Serge H. Ahmed;George F. Koob

  314
  Citations

• Validation crisis in animal models of drug addiction: beyond non-disordered drug use toward drug addiction.

  Serge H. Ahmed

  277
  Citations

• The science of making drug-addicted animals.

  Serge Ahmed

  260
  Citations

• A transdiagnostic dimensional approach towards a neuropsychological assessment for addiction: an international Delphi consensus study

  Murat Yücel;Erin Oldenhof;Serge H. Ahmed;David Belin

  241
  Citations

• Sugar addiction: pushing the drug-sugar analogy to the limit.

  Serge H. Ahmed;Karine Guillem;Youna Vandaele

  240
  Citations

• Dissociation of psychomotor sensitization from compulsive cocaine consumption.

  Serge H Ahmed;Martine Cador

  218
  Citations

• Cocaine Is Low on the Value Ladder of Rats: Possible Evidence for Resilience to Addiction

  Lauriane Cantin;Magalie Lenoir;Eric Augier;Nathalie Vanhille

  204
  Citations

• Detailed analysis of the behavior of Lister and Wistar rats in anxiety, object recognition and object location tasks

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  200
  Citations

• Neurobiology of addiction versus drug use driven by lack of choice

  Serge H Ahmed;Magalie Lenoir;Magalie Lenoir;Karine Guillem;Karine Guillem

  164
  Citations

• Risk-Prone Individuals Prefer the Wrong Options on a Rat Version of the Iowa Gambling Task

  Marion Rivalan;Serge H. Ahmed;Françoise Dellu-Hagedorn

  155
  Citations

• Gene expression evidence for remodeling of lateral hypothalamic circuitry in cocaine addiction

  Serge H. Ahmed;Robert Lutjens;Lena D. van der Stap;Dusan Lekic

  155
  Citations

• Explaining the escalation of drug use in substance dependence: models and appropriate animal laboratory tests.

  Gerald Zernig;Serge H. Ahmed;Rudolf N. Cardinal;Drake Morgan

  149
  Citations

• Escalation of cocaine self-administration does not depend on altered cocaine-induced nucleus accumbens dopamine levels.

  Serge H. Ahmed;Daniel Lin;George F. Koob;Loren H. Parsons

  147
  Citations

• The transition from controlled to compulsive drug use is associated with a loss of sensitization.

  Osnat Ben-Shahar;Serge H. Ahmed;George F. Koob;Aaron Ettenberg

  137
  Citations

• Sugar Overconsumption during Adolescence Selectively Alters Motivation and Reward Function in Adult Rats

  Leandro F. Vendruscolo;Aliou B. Gueye;Muriel Darnaudéry;Serge H. Ahmed

  116
  Citations

• Microinjections of an opiate receptor antagonist into the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis suppress heroin self-administration in dependent rats

  John R. Walker;Serge H. Ahmed;K.Noelle Gracy;George F. Koob

  110
  Citations

• Heroin-induced reinstatement is specific to compulsive heroin use and dissociable from heroin reward and sensitization.

  Magalie Lenoir;Serge H Ahmed

  110
  Citations