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Yavin Shaham is affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant number of publications contributing to these fields. Shaham's work spans several subfields, including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, physiology, and molecular biology.

The scientist's main research topics include neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, memory and neural mechanisms, pain mechanisms and treatments, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, receptor mechanisms and signaling, and neuropeptides and animal physiology.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Shaham include:

  • Pharmacological and behavioral divergence of ketamine enantiomers: implications for abuse liability (2021, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Improving translation of animal models of addiction and relapse by reverse translation (2020, Nature Reviews. Neuroscience)
  • Sex Differences in Opioid and Psychostimulant Craving and Relapse: A Critical Review (2022, Pharmacological Reviews)
  • The protective effect of operant social reward on cocaine self-administration, choice, and relapse is dependent on delay and effort for the social reward (2021, Neuropsychopharmacology)
  • A neural substrate of compulsive alcohol use (2021, Science Advances)

Key frequent coauthors collaborating with Shaham include:

  • Jennifer M. Bossert
  • Marco Vènniro
  • Ida Fredriksson
  • Jonathan J. Chow
  • Bruce T. Hope

Shaham publishes regularly in several notable venues, with the top venues being:

  • Psychopharmacology
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Biological Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • The reinstatement model of drug relapse: history, methodology and major findings.

    Yavin Shaham;Uri Shalev;Lin Lu;Harriet de Wit

  • Neurobiology of Relapse to Heroin and Cocaine Seeking: A Review

    Uri Shalev;Jeffrey W. Grimm;Yavin Shaham

  • Neuroadaptation. Incubation of cocaine craving after withdrawal.

    Jeffrey W. Grimm;Bruce T. Hope;Roy A. Wise;Yavin Shaham

  • Stress-induced relapse to heroin and cocaine seeking in rats: a review.

    Yavin Shaham;Suzanne Erb;Jane Stewart

  • Toward a model of drug relapse: an assessment of the validity of the reinstatement procedure.

    David H. Epstein;David H. Epstein;Kenzie L. Preston;Jane Stewart;Yavin Shaham

  • Neurobiology of the incubation of drug craving

    Charles L. Pickens;Mikko Airavaara;Florence Theberge;Sanya Fanous

  • A Memory Retrieval-Extinction Procedure to Prevent Drug Craving and Relapse

    Yan-Xue Xue;Yi-Xiao Luo;Ping Wu;Hai-Shui Shi;Hai-Shui Shi

  • Opiate versus psychostimulant addiction: the differences do matter

    Aldo Badiani;David Belin;David Epstein;Donna Calu

  • The Role of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor in Drug Addiction

    Zoltán Sarnyai;Yavin Shaham;Stephen C. Heinrichs

  • Time-Dependent Increases in Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Protein Levels within the Mesolimbic Dopamine System after Withdrawal from Cocaine: Implications for Incubation of Cocaine Craving

    Jeffrey W. Grimm;Lin Lu;Teruo Hayashi;Bruce T. Hope

  • Neuroplasticity in the mesolimbic dopamine system and cocaine addiction

    Mark J Thomas;P. W. Kalivas;Y. Shaham

  • Context-induced relapse to drug seeking: a review

    Hans S Crombag;Jennifer M Bossert;Eisuke Koya;Yavin Shaham

  • Incubation of cocaine craving after withdrawal: a review of preclinical data.

    Lin Lu;Jeffrey W. Grimm;Bruce T. Hope;Yavin Shaham

  • A cannabinoid mechanism in relapse to cocaine seeking.

    T J De Vries;Y Shaham;J R Homberg;H Crombag

  • Stress reinstates cocaine-seeking behavior after prolonged extinction and a drug-free period.

    Suzanne Erb;Y. Shaham;J. Stewart

  • The reinstatement model of drug relapse: recent neurobiological findings, emerging research topics, and translational research

    Jennifer M. Bossert;Nathan J. Marchant;Donna J. Calu;Yavin Shaham

  • Running is the neurogenic and neurotrophic stimulus in environmental enrichment

    Tali Kobilo;Qing Rong Liu;Kriti Gandhi;Mohammed Mughal

  • Central amygdala ERK signaling pathway is critical to incubation of cocaine craving

    Lin Lu;Bruce T Hope;Jack Dempsey;Shirley Y Liu

  • Renewal of drug seeking by contextual cues after prolonged extinction in rats.

    Hans S. Crombag;Yavin Shaham

  • Stress reinstates heroin-seeking in drug-free animals: An effect mimicking heroin, not withdrawal

    Y. Shaham;J. Stewart

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer M. Bossert
Jennifer M. Bossert National Institute on Drug Abuse
Bruce T. Hope
Bruce T. Hope National Institute on Drug Abuse
Lin Lu
Lin Lu Peking University
Jane Stewart
Jane Stewart Concordia University
Geoffrey Schoenbaum
Geoffrey Schoenbaum National Institutes of Health
David H. Epstein
David H. Epstein National Institute on Drug Abuse
Sam A. Golden
Sam A. Golden University of Washington
Brandon K. Harvey
Brandon K. Harvey National Institute on Drug Abuse
Marisela Morales
Marisela Morales National Institute on Drug Abuse
Markus Heilig
Markus Heilig Linköping University

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