The involvement of mu- and kappa- but not delta-opioid receptors in the body weight gain of suckling rats.

abstract：RATIONALE:Reduction of body temperature is used as predictor of psychotropic drug action. The cutaneous circulation functions as a heat-loss component of temperature regulation. Clozapine and olanzapine reverse hyperthermia and sympathetically-mediated cutaneous vasoconstriction induced by MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymetha...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Blessing WW

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one depressed patients participated in a study that assessed the predictability of amitriptyline (AT) dosage based on plasma drug concentrations after a single dose. In 11 patients maintained on a fixed dose regimen, the 18-h single-dose level was confirmed to be predictive of steady-state levels. The dose for ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Madakasira S,Khazanie PG,Sato TL

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of dopamine agonists on self-stimulation are a matter of considerable dispute. Apomorphine has variously been reported to inhibit, have no effect on, or to facilitate lever-press self-stimulation. To investigate the possibility that these discrepancies may reflect peculiarities of the lever-press test situ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Atrens DM,Becker FT,Hunt GE

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Repeated treatment with morphine has been shown to sensitize rats to its stimulant effects on motor activity and mesolimbic dopamine (DA) transmission. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study is to investigate if morphine sensitization is associated to changes in the behavioral reactions to appetitive and aversive ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： De Luca MA,Bimpisidis Z,Bassareo V,Di Chiara G

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dosage regimen adjustments because of poor renal function are often assumed to be unnecessary for extensively metabolized antidepressants. This assumption is being increasingly questioned in recognition of the role of active drug metabolites. The purpose of this study was to assess the steady-state accumulation of the...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： DeVane CL,Laizure SC,Cameron DF

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Treatment of the most widely abused drugs, nicotine and alcohol, is hampered by high rates of relapse. Varenicline tartrate, an α4β2 nicotinic receptor partial agonist, is currently prescribed as a smoking cessation aid. However, there is emerging evidence that it may also modulate alcohol seeking and cogniti...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wouda JA,Riga D,De Vries W,Stegeman M,van Mourik Y,Schetters D,Schoffelmeer AN,Pattij T,De Vries TJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Synthesis of ligands inactive or with low activity at α₁ GABA(A) receptors has become the key concept for development of novel, more tolerable benzodiazepine (BZ)-like drugs. WYS8, a remarkably (105 times) α₁-subtype selective partial positive modulator, may serve as a pharmacological tool for refining the ro...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Joksimović S,Varagic Z,Kovačević J,Van Linn M,Milić M,Rallapalli S,Timić T,Sieghart W,Cook JM,Savić MM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The startle reflex to a sudden intense acoustic pulse stimulus is attenuated if the pulse is shortly preceded by a weak prepulse stimulus. This represents a form of sensory gating, known as prepulse inhibition (PPI), observable across species. PPI is modulated by dopamine and readily disrupted by acute amphet...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Peleg-Raibstein D,Hauser J,Llano Lopez LH,Feldon J,Gargiulo PA,Yee BK

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Nicotine improves cognitive function in a number of animal models including rats, mice, monkeys, and recently, zebrafish. The zebrafish model allows higher throughput and ease in discovering mechanisms of cognitive improvement. MATERIALS AND METHODS:To further characterize the neural bases of nicotine effect...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Eddins D,Petro A,Williams P,Cerutti DT,Levin ED

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that mGlu2/3 receptors regulate 5-HT2A signaling, interactions that have been theorized to play a role in the antipsychotic-like effects of mGlu2/3 agonists as well as the hallucinogenic effects of 5-HT2A agonists. One approach to unraveling this interaction is through the chronic administr...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Halberstadt AL,van der Zee JVF,Chatha M,Geyer MA,Powell SB

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients taking lithium often report difficulties in concentration, memory, learning, and attention and many of these complaints are verified on psychometric testing. Laboratory tests of cognitive functions in healthy volunteers on chronic lithium demonstrate that disruptions in memory-learning processes are apparent ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Weingartner H,Rudorfer MV,Linnoila M

更新日期：1985-01-01 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

abstract：:Single-dose pharmacokinetics of alprazolam was studied in 42 normal male volunteers (14 Caucasians, 14 American-born Asians, and 14 foreign-born Asians), after both oral and parenteral (IV) administration of a small dose (0.5 mg) of the test drug. Asians manifested significantly higher Cmax, larger AUC, slower CL and ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Lin KM,Lau JK,Smith R,Phillips P,Antal E,Poland RE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE/OBJECTIVES:Previous research has shown that ecstasy users are impaired in thinking and reasoning. The present study sought to explore the possibility that syllogistic reasoning errors in ecstasy users were due to an inability to construct a model of the premises due to working memory limitations. METHODS:Twe...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Fisk JE,Montgomery C,Wareing M,Murphy PN

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Cognitive rehabilitation is now recognized as an important tool in the treatment of schizophrenia, and findings in this area are emerging rapidly. There is a need for a systematic review of the effects of the different training programs. OBJECTIVES:To review quantitatively the controlled studies on cognitive...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Krabbendam L,Aleman A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether any locus postsynaptic to the GABAergic striatonigral projection might be involved in the enhancement of behavioral response to dopaminergic stimulants induced by chronic treatment with either neuroleptic drugs or stimulants. Rats exposed chronically to either chlorpromazine or cocaine were tested ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bachus SE,Gale K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of behaviors were studied in an open-field setting after i.v. amphetamine (0.5, 2.0, 8.0 mg/kg), phenmetrazine (1.0, 4.0, 16.0 mg/kg), or fenfluramine (1.0, 4.0, 16.0 mg/kg). Amphetamine and phenmetrazine increased ambulation initially and rearing during the whole experiment, and decreased grooming. At 30 an...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Lindquist MP,Götestam KG

更新日期：1977-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Functional interactions between limbic regions that process emotions and frontal networks that guide response functions provide a substrate for emotional cues to influence behavior. Stimulation of postsynaptic α₂ adrenoceptors enhances the function of prefrontal regions in these networks. However, the impact ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Schulz KP,Clerkin SM,Fan J,Halperin JM,Newcorn JH

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of meperidine on operant behavioral thermoregulation were investigated using a convective thermal controller and mice trained to alternate at will the thermal-drive condition, changing it from an air flow of 15 degrees C to one of 45 degrees C, and vice versa. Administration of 15 mg/kg meperidine resulted...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Gessner PK,Clarke CC

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ovarian steroids on the benzodiazepine receptor was assessed in the elevated plus-maze and, after restraint stress, in benzodiazepine receptor binding assays. Vehicle-treated proestrous rats displayed anxiolytic behavior, relative to diestrus or estrous rats. Anxiolytic behavior was observed after 1 or 2...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bitran D,Dowd JA

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:The effects of fixed-ratio (FR) size, scopolamine, and the interactions between FR size and scopolamine were investigated in male F344 rats on working memory as assessed by spatial alternation behavior maintained under FR schedules of food presentation where the interval between trials was varied among values of 2, 4,...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Shannon HE,Bemis KG,Hart JC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted in order to investigate the level of amitriptyline (AT) and its metabolites. Three separate experiments were carried out. In two of these experiments, rats were treated over 7 days with IP doses of AT (10 mg/kg in experiment A and 2 X 20 mg/kg in experiment C). The rats were sacrificed either ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Baumann P,Gaillard JM,Jonzier-Perey M,Gerber C,Bouras C

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of aluminum on levels of inorganic phosphorus and acetylcholinesterase in blood and brain and on permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in different regions of the brain to the neuropeptide delta-sleep-inducing peptide (DSIP) was studied in adult rats. Aluminum (100 mg/kg) significantly increased the...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Banks WA,Kastin AJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predatory behavior of ferrets (Putorius putorius furo L.) consists mainly of instinctive behavioral patterns that are elicited by simple external stimuli. For the ferret, the time needed to catch and kill rats depends on the size of the rats in relation to that of the ferret. Killing success decreases with a relat...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Apfelbach R

更新日期：1978-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of an acoustic startle response is impaired in schizophrenics. PPI can also be studied in the rat, and is impaired by dopamine (DA) D2/3 receptor agonists such as apomorphine. This disruption is reversed by DA antagonists, leading to proposals that this approach may be a useful means to ident...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Varty GB,Higgins GA

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cholinergic hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has strongly influenced research on learning and memory over the last decade. However, there has been limited success treating AD dementia with cholinomimetics. Furthermore, there are indications that other neurotransmitter systems affected by this disease may be ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Camacho F,Smith CP,Vargas HM,Winslow JT

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time course of light adaptation after intense light exposure is significantly delayed by alcohol, marijuana, and a combined dose of alcohol and marijuana. These effects were found in a double blind experiment, using 10 subjects. The experimental treatments were placebo, 0.75 ml/kg of 95% ethanol, 8 and 15 mg of de...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Adams AJ,Brown B,Haegerstrom-Portnoy G,Flom MC,Jones RT

更新日期：1978-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Abstinence from drug occurs in human addicts for several reasons, including the avoidance of adverse consequences. OBJECTIVES:To explore a model of drug use in the face of adverse consequences in rats through intermittent punishment of drug seeking and to investigate whether the ability to withhold seeking r...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Pelloux Y,Everitt BJ,Dickinson A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we have investigated the effects of diazepam (DZP) (10 mg/kg) treatment of rat dams during different periods of gestation or during lactation on the development and behavior of their offspring. The results show that DZP exposure during different phases of early development has differing effects on...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Frieder B,Epstein S,Grimm VE

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00