Diethyldithiocarbamate depresses the acoustic startle response in rats.

abstract：RATIONALE:Information is sparse on neurotransmitter deficiencies in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), in particular with reference to distinct histological subgroups and Alzheimer's disease (AD). OBJECTIVES:To evaluate in FTD with the major histologies, and compare with AD and controls, neurotransmission indices, as thes...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bowen DM,Procter AW,Mann DM,Snowden JS,Esiri MM,Neary D,Francis PT

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supersensitivity to serotonin during migraine attack has been previously observed. Since the attack has been attributed to a critical lowering of morphine-like factors, we can expect serotonin supersensitivity during morphine abstinence. Slight signs of morphine abstinence have also been induced in volunteers after mi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Sicuteri F,Del Bianco PL,Anselmi B

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Investigations of the neural consequences of the effects of cocaine on cognition have centered on specific brain circuits including prefrontal cortex, medial temporal lobe and striatum and their roles in controlling drug dependent behavior and addiction. These regions are critical to many aspects of drug abus...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Hampson RE,Porrino LJ,Opris I,Stanford T,Deadwyler SA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CSF GABA levels were not significantly different in a group of drug-free psychotic patients compared to a group of psychotic patients at two points during haloperidol treatment or a neurological comparison group. In the untreated group, CSF GABA was significantly negatively correlated with clinical ratings of anxiety ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bowers MB Jr,Gold BI,Roth RH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Whilst the deleterious effects of alcohol on retrospective remembering have been widely documented, no study has yet objectively determined alcohol's effects on prospective memory (PM)--remembering to do something in the future. OBJECTIVES:With this aim, the present study determined the acute effects of alco...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Leitz JR,Morgan CJ,Bisby JA,Rendell PG,Curran HV

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Clozapine is a unique antipsychotic with very low propensity to cause motor side effects. In contrast to most other antipsychotics that block more than 70% of dopamine D(2) receptors at therapeutic doses, clozapine occupies less than 70%. Furthermore, even at maximum occupancy, 70% is not exceeded. Several me...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Suhara T,Okauchi T,Sudo Y,Takano A,Kawabe K,Maeda J,Kapur S

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of two subcutaneous injections of 0.6 mg nicotine, administered 40 min apart, was compared with placebo in four non-smoking subjects in a counter-balanced double-blind crossover design. The nicotine injections produced mean peak plasma nicotine concentrations of 5.3 ng/ml 10 min after the first injection an...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Foulds J,McSorley K,Sneddon J,Feyerabend C,Jarvis MJ,Russell MA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies indicate that some aspects of endotoxin-induced sickness behavior in rats may be mediated by interleukin-1 stimulated events and can be attenuated by corticosteroids, cyclooxygenase inhibitors and the interleukin-1-receptor antagonist. In the current studies, we replicate and extend these findings in ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Fishkin RJ,Winslow JT

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The administration of trycyclic antidepressants followed by reserpine-like drugs elicits a pattern of stereotyped locomotor activity. Using desmethylimipramine (DMI) followed by tetrabenazine (TBZ), activity could be reliably elicited only in young rats, and only by using very high doses of TBZ. The latency of onset o...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Willner P,Clark D

更新日期：1978-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of the serotonin (5-HT)1A receptor agonist 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (8-OH-DPAT) facilitates the expression of masculine sexual behavior in male and female rats as well as in male rhesus monkeys and inhibits lordosis behavior in female rats. In the present study the effects of 8-OH-DPAT on ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Paredes RG,Kica E,Baum MJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal male volunteers took single acute doses of either diazepam or placebo under double-blind conditions in three simulated public speaking experiments. Measures of palmar sweating and subjective anxiety showed that anticipation of speaking in public increased anxiety relative to baseline and prestress conditions, a...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： McNair DM,Frankenthaler LM,Czerlinsky T,White TW,Sasson S,Fisher S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were trained on a fixed ratio 10, food-reinforced schedule to recognize a discriminative stimulus (DS) elicited by the selective serotonin (5-HT) reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), citalopram (2.5 mg/kg, IP). The preferential, high efficacy agonist at 5-HT2C receptors, Ro60-0175, dose-dependently generalized to citalopra...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Millan MJ,Girardon S,Dekeyne A

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Individual differences in the rate of nicotine metabolism (RNM) could be related to dependence and success in stopping smoking. A range of studies have examined RNM measured by the ratio of trans-3'-hydroxycotinine and cotinine in body fluids (the ratio). A systematic review of this literature is needed to dr...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： West O,Hajek P,McRobbie H

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Certain disorders, such as depression and anxiety, to which serotonin dysfunction is historically associated, are also associated with lower assessments of other people's trustworthiness. Serotonergic changes are known to alter cognitive responses to threatening stimuli. This effect may manifest socially as r...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Simonsen A,Scheel-Krüger J,Jensen M,Roepstorff A,Møller A,Frith CD,Campbell-Meiklejohn D

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression in children is currently an area of considerable controversy, as is the use of potent psychopharmacologic agents in children. Since EEG sleep techniques have proven to be useful in understanding the mechanisms of depression in adults and in predicting their response to antidepressants, a pilot study employi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kupfer DJ,Coble P,Kane J,Petti T,Conners CK

更新日期：1979-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The ultra-short-acting mu opioid agonist analgesic/anesthetic remifentanil (RMF) is extremely rapidly eliminated from blood (half-life in rats, 0.3-0.7 min). This extremely fast elimination is thought to be the main reason why RMF maintains such high rates of responding in animal operant-conditioning models o...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Crespo JA,Sturm K,Saria A,Zernig G

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:Dopamine (DA) agonists reliably disrupt prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the startle reflex in animals but less so in humans despite cross-species similarities in the neural regulation of PPI. This study examines whether individual variation in baseline PPI may account for the inconsistencies in DA...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bitsios P,Giakoumaki SG,Frangou S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Recent studies have implicated an important role for the dorsal striatum during craving for cocaine and in cocaine-seeking after abstinence in rats. OBJECTIVES:We compared the effects of pharmacological inactivation of mesencephalic dopamine (DA) cell body regions and dorsal vs ventral striatal terminal fiel...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： See RE,Elliott JC,Feltenstein MW

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Observing responses bring sensory receptors into contact with environmental stimuli. In the observing-response procedure, periods in which an operant response (e.g. pressing a lever) is reinforced by drug deliveries alternate with periods in which this response is never reinforced (i.e. extinction). These alt...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Shahan TA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the role of the strychnine-insensitive glycine binding site of the NMDA receptor in prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle response (ASR) in rats. PPI is an operational measure of gating processes which normally lead to a diminished ASR when a startling stimulus is preceded by a weak pre...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kretschmer BD,Koch M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracerebroventricular injections of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and of the GABA-transaminase inhibitor, ethanolamine-O-sulphate (EOS), decreased the food intake of freely-fed (GABA and EOS) and food-deprived rats (EOS). The effect, still evident 24 h after treatment, was not decreased by the GABA receptor-blocker...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Olgiati VR,Netti C,Guidobono F,Pecile A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The involvement of glutamate in fear extinction is perhaps the most promising in terms of facilitating clinical interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study was aimed at elucidating the possible role of zif268 on the D-cycloserine (DCS) facilitation effect on extinction. OBJECTIVE:We in...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wu IT,Tang TH,Ko MC,Chiu CY,Lu KT

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The endogenous opioid system has been implicated in substance abuse and response to pharmacotherapies for nicotine and alcohol addiction. We examined (1) the association of the functional OPRM1 A118G variant with the relative reinforcing value of nicotine and (2) the main and interacting effects of the mu-opi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ray R,Jepson C,Patterson F,Strasser A,Rukstalis M,Perkins K,Lynch KG,O'Malley S,Berrettini WH,Lerman C

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of single and long-term haloperidol administration on rat open field behavior was studied. Withdrawal from long-term haloperidol treatment induced a significant increase in all parameters of activity recorded, except rearing. There was a direct relationship between the impairment of motor function induced ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bernardi MM,De Souza H,Palermo Neto J

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The topography of stereotyped behaviour produced by apomorphine in rats was studied by using either a scoring system, based on observation in a wire cage, or by quantification of horizontal and vertical activities, and of the total distances run in an open field, using an automatic recording system. The latter design ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Havemann U,Magnus B,Möller HG,Kuschinsky K

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Asenapine, a psychopharmacologic agent developed for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, has higher affinity for 5-HT(2A/C,6,7) and alpha(2) adrenergic receptors than for D(2) receptors. Asenapine exhibits potent antipsychotic-like effects without inducing catalepsy, increases cortical and subcortical dopamin...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Frånberg O,Marcus MM,Ivanov V,Schilström B,Shahid M,Svensson TH

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:H(3)-receptor inverse agonists raise a great interest as innovative therapeutics in several central disorders. Whereas their procognitive properties are well established, their antipsychotic-like properties are still debated. OBJECTIVES:We further explored the effect of maximal doses (3-10 mg/kg) of ciproxif...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Burban A,Sadakhom C,Dumoulin D,Rose C,Le Pen G,Frances H,Arrang JM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the studies reported here, we investigated the effects of nicotine on memory for unrelated word lists. Nicotine was delivered through cigarette smoking, and memory performance was assessed using both intentional and incidental recall tasks, and employing an additional, indirect measure of memory. We report the resu...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Rusted J,Graupner L,Warburton D

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten behavioural variables were recorded by means of an automatic holeboard apparatus. The behaviour of rats placed for the first time in the apparatus was recorded for 10 min. The suppression of this exploratory behaviour by the dopamine agonist apomorphine (0.01-0.1 mg/kg) was shown to be reversible in a surmountable...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ståhle L,Ungerstedt U

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cognitive deficits, particularly memory impairment, observed in association with organic brain damage caused by chronic alcohol ingestion, are consistent with the profile of benzodiazepine-induced amnesia. This study examined the cognitive capabilities of a group of heavy social drinkers (n = 11) and a group of lo...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Nichols JM,Martin F,Kirkby KC

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00