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Anxiety enhances pain in a model of osteoarthritis and is associated with altered endogenous opioid function and reduced opioid analgesia (2021)
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Lillywhite, A., Woodhams, S. G., Gonçalves, S. V., Watson, D. J. G., Li, L., Burston, J. J., …Chapman, V. (2021). Anxiety enhances pain in a model of osteoarthritis and is associated with altered endogenous opioid function and reduced opioid analgesia. PAIN Reports, 6(4), Article e956. https://doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000956

Introduction: Negative affect, including anxiety and depression, is prevalent in chronic pain states such as osteoarthritis (OA) and associated with greater use of opioid analgesics, potentially contributing to present and future opioid crises.... Read More about Anxiety enhances pain in a model of osteoarthritis and is associated with altered endogenous opioid function and reduced opioid analgesia.

Dual-acting agents for improving cognition and real-world function in Alzheimer's disease: Focus on 5-HT6 and D3 receptors as hubs (2020)
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Millan, M. J., Dekeyne, A., Gobert, A., Brocco, M., Mannoury la Cour, C., Ortuno, J. C., …Fone, K. C. (2020). Dual-acting agents for improving cognition and real-world function in Alzheimer's disease: Focus on 5-HT6 and D3 receptors as hubs. Neuropharmacology, 177, Article 108099. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2020.108099

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd To date, there are no interventions that impede the inexorable progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and currently-available drugs cholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors and the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor antagonist, memantine, of... Read More about Dual-acting agents for improving cognition and real-world function in Alzheimer's disease: Focus on 5-HT6 and D3 receptors as hubs.

Manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging depicts brain activity in models of acute and chronic pain: a new window to study experimental spontaneous pain? (2017)
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Devonshire, I. M., Burston, J., Xu, L., Lillywhite, A., Prior, M., Watson, D. J., …Chapman, V. (2017). Manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging depicts brain activity in models of acute and chronic pain: a new window to study experimental spontaneous pain?. NeuroImage, 157, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.034

Application of functional imaging techniques to animal models is vital to understand pain mechanisms, but is often confounded by the need to limit movement artefacts with anaesthesia, and a focus on evoked responses rather than clinically relevant sp... Read More about Manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging depicts brain activity in models of acute and chronic pain: a new window to study experimental spontaneous pain?.

The dopamine D3-preferring D2/D3 dopamine receptor partial agonist, cariprazine, reverses behavioral changes in a rat neurodevelopmental model for schizophrenia (2015)
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Watson, D. J., King, M. V., Gyertyán, I., Kiss, B., Adham, N., & Fone, K. C. (2016). The dopamine D3-preferring D2/D3 dopamine receptor partial agonist, cariprazine, reverses behavioral changes in a rat neurodevelopmental model for schizophrenia. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 26, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2015.12.020

Current antipsychotic medication is largely ineffective against the negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia. One promising therapeutic development is to design new molecules that balance actions on dopamine D2 and D3 receptors to maximise be... Read More about The dopamine D3-preferring D2/D3 dopamine receptor partial agonist, cariprazine, reverses behavioral changes in a rat neurodevelopmental model for schizophrenia.