A novel acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and calcium channel blocker SCR-1693 improves Aβ25-35-impaired mouse cognitive function.

abstract：RATIONALE:Cannabis (CB) use and dependence are associated with regionally specific alterations to brain circuitry and substantial psychosocial impairment. OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to investigate the association between CB use and dependence, and the volumes of brain regions critically involved in goa...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Chye Y,Solowij N,Suo C,Batalla A,Cousijn J,Goudriaan AE,Martin-Santos R,Whittle S,Lorenzetti V,Yücel M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:F17464, a dopamine D3 receptor antagonist with relatively high D3 selectivity (70 fold vs D2 in vitro), exhibits an antipsychotic profile in preclinical studies, and therapeutic efficacy was demonstrated in a randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial in patients with schizophrenia (Bitter et al. Neuropsych...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Slifstein M,Abi-Dargham A,Girgis RR,Suckow RF,Cooper TB,Divgi CR,Sokoloff P,Leriche L,Carberry P,Oya S,Joseph SK,Guiraud M,Montagne A,Brunner V,Gaudoux F,Tonner F

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Repeated administration of psychoactive drugs results in a progressive enhancement of the behavioral effects of these compounds, a phenomenon termed sensitization. OBJECTIVE:We tested whether repeated administration of the non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist dizocilpine (MK-801) induces sensitization of...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Schulz B,Fendt M,Pedersen V,Koch M

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Hydroxytryptamine1A (5-HT1A) receptors have been shown to be suppressed by corticosteroid hormones in a variety of animal experimental paradigms. It has been suggested that this effect may be central to the pathophysiology of severe clinical depressive illness, a condition in which 5-HT1A receptor function is reduce...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Porter RJ,McAllister-Williams RH,Lunn BS,Young AH

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smokers have a wide variety of "tar" and nicotine yields to choose from in the current market, ranging from 0.5 mg "tar" and less than 0.05 mg nicotine to 27 mg "tar" and 1.8 mg nicotine by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) method. To understand better the relationship between FTC nicotine yields and actual...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Byrd GD,Robinson JH,Caldwell WS,deBethizy JD

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relationships between aging effects on apomorphine (AP)-induced stereotypy and AP concentrations in plasma and brain were studied in rats. In two separate behavioral studies, four groups of male Wistar rats (3, 6, 20, and 43 weeks of age) and two groups of female Wistar rats (5 and 35 weeks of age) were used, respecti...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Watanabe H,Nakano S,Ogawa N

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbachol, muscarine, eserine and neostigmine injected into the cerebral ventricles of conscious cats evoked emotional behaviour with aggression, autonomic and motor phenomena as well as clonic-tonic convulsions. The main and the most impressive feature of the gross behavioural effects of intraventricular carbachol, m...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Beleslin DB,Samardzić R

更新日期：1979-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous and amphetamine-elicited locomotor activity in rats is reduced by most clinically effective antipsychotic drugs. We have recently demonstrated that intracerebroventricular infusion of kainic acid (KA), which produces cell loss in the hippocampus and other limbic-cortical brain regions, increases spontaneou...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bardgett ME,Jackson JL,Taylor BM,Csernansky JG

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of benzodiazepine (triazolam 0.25 and 0.50 mg) on different aspects of cognitive function were assessed. Triazolam impaired free recall and recognition of information presented after drug administration. In contrast to these impairments in explicit memory, a memory function that did not require conscious a...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Weingartner HJ,Hommer D,Lister RG,Thompson K,Wolkowitz O

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Previous studies have shown that the effect of setting on drug-taking is substance specific in both humans and rats. In particular, we have shown that when the setting of drug self-administration (SA) coincides with the home environment of the rats (resident rats), the rats tend to prefer heroin to cocaine. T...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Montanari C,Stendardo E,De Luca MT,Meringolo M,Contu L,Badiani A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic nicotine infusion has been found in a series of studies in our laboratory to significantly improve choice accuracy of rats in the eight-arm radial maze. The current study was designed to compare the effects of chronic nicotine infusion on working and reference memory in a 16-arm radial maze. Nicotine was admin...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Levin ED,Kim P,Meray R

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experiment was conducted to test whether centrally acting drugs could act as conditioned stimuli (CS) in a classical conditioning paradigm in which electric shock acted as the unconditioned stimulus (US) and suppression of drinking was used as an indicator of a conditioned response (CR). Thirsty rats were allowed t...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Overton DA,Shen CF,Tatham TA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Drugs that rapidly increase dopamine levels have an increased risk of abuse. Dasotraline (DAS) is a dopamine and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor characterized by slow oral absorption with low potential for abuse. However, it remains unclear whether intravenous (i.v.) administration would facilitate the rapi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Lew R,Constantinescu CC,Holden D,Carson RE,Carroll V,Galluppi G,Koblan KS,Hopkins SC

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the CCKB-receptor agonist pentagastrin, a synthetic analogue of the cholecystokinin tetrapeptide (CCK-4), were studied in seven patients suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and seven healthy controls. All subjects were challenged with an IV dose of 0.6 micrograms/kg pentagastrin or placeb...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： de Leeuw AS,Den Boer JA,Slaap BR,Westenberg HG

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONAL:Prefrontal cortex (PFC) and dorsal striatum are part of the neural circuit critical for executive attention. The relationship between 5-HT and aspects of attention and executive control is complex depending on experimental conditions and the level of activation of different 5-HT receptors within the nuclei of ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Agnoli L,Carli M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a test of conditioned punishment, saline-treated controls showed a moderate bias in responding away from a lever producing a response-contingent auditory conditioned stimulus (CS) that had been paired with mild footshock during training and towards a lever producing a neutral auditory CS. Systemic treatment with th...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Killcross AS,Everitt BJ,Robins TW

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:The discriminative stimulus (DS) effect of apomorphine was investigated in rats trained in a two-lever, food-reinforcement procedure. Rats were given subcutaneous injections of saline or 0.1 mg/kg apomorphine HCl, 15 min before training sessions. The training dose of apomorphine was chosen to activate dopamine autorec...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Tang AH,Franklin SR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats selectively bred for high alcohol sleep times (HAS) and those that are less affected (LAS) by hypnotic doses (3.0-3.6 g/kg) of ethanol were tested for differential responses to the aversive effects of 1.0 g/kg ethanol in a conditioned place preference task. Likewise, the effects of 0.3-1.0 g/kg ethanol on spontan...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Schechter MD,Krimmer EC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Offensive and defensive components of aggressive behavior were determined in resident and intruder mice. Withdrawal aggression was measured after the removal of a subcutaneous morphine pellet or after precipitation by naloxone in naive mice and after removal of a morphine pellet in mice with prior fighting experience....

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kantak KM,Miczek KA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The C57BL/6 is one of the most widely used mouse strains in behavioral, pharmacological, and genetic research but little is known about their response on tests for antidepressant drugs. OBJECTIVES:The behavior of C57BL/6 mice, and mice from other strains, was examined in the tail suspension test (TST), a com...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Mayorga AJ,Lucki I

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice, quipazine has shown several behavioral effects: It antagonizes hypothermia induced by a high dose of apomorphine without altering climbing or stereotyped behavior; it antagonizes oxotremorine-induced hypothermia without altering tremors or peripheral signs; and it increases the toxicity of yohimbine. These th...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Francès H,Lecrubier Y,Puech AJ,Simon P

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suriclone is a new anxiolytic drug belonging to the family of cyclopyrrolones. Although chemically entirely different from the benzodiazepines, it acts as a benzodiazepine agonist with very high affinity for the benzodiazepine receptors. In the present cross-over study, 33 out-patients with a diagnosis of neurotic anx...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Gerlach J,Christensen JK,Christensen TL,Elley J,Jensen JP,Larsen SB

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were carried out using rats to investigate whether 5-HT1A neural mechanisms are involved in lithium-induced conditioned taste aversion (CTA). We found that the 5-HT1A antagonists p-MPPI and pindolol caused CTA similar to that produced by LiCl. The 5-HT1A agonist 8-OH-DPAT counteracted lithium-induced CTA. ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wegener G,Smith DF,Rosenberg R

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Dysfunction of executive neuropsychological performance, mediated by the prefrontal cortex, has been the central focus of recent attention deficit/ hyperkinetic disorder (AD-HKD) research. The role of other potential neuropsychological "risk factors", such as recognition memory, remains understudied. Further,...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Rhodes SM,Coghill DR,Matthews K

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The benzodiazepine diazepam and the benzodiazepine antagonist Ro 15-1788 were tested alone or in combination for their influence on scopolamine-induced locomotor stimulation in mice. The benzodiazepine antagonist had no effect by itself, but prevented the enhancement of scopolamine-induced locomotor stimulation produc...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Sansone M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of chronic lithium treatment on methylphenidate-, D1 dopamine receptor agonist (A-77636)-, and tactile stimulation-induced increases in frontal cortical acetylcholine release were studied in the rat using in vivo brain microdialysis. Cortical acetylcholine release in control rats was maximally stimulated b...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Acquas E,Fibiger HC

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding kinetics of tritiated quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB) were studied in membrane preparations from human parotid and rabbit submandibular glands. Inhibition of 3H-QNB was then used to compare the anticholinergic activity of lofepramine, desipramine, imipramine and amitriptyline for muscarinic receptor in the s...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Batra S,Biörklund A

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONAL:It has been suggested that phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors such as sildenafil may be effective in the treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia. OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to investigate the effect of sildenafil added to risperidone as augmentation therapy in patients with chronic schizophrenia an...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Akhondzadeh S,Ghayyoumi R,Rezaei F,Salehi B,Modabbernia AH,Maroufi A,Esfandiari GR,Naderi M,Ghebleh F,Tabrizi M,Rezazadeh SA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:It is important to study age-related differences that may put adolescents at risk for alcohol-related problems. Adolescents seem less sensitive to the aversive effects of ethanol than adults. Less is known of appetitive effects of ethanol and stress modulation of these effects. OBJECTIVES:This study aims to ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Acevedo MB,Pautassi RM,Spear NE,Spear LP

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00