CRF1 receptor-deficiency induces anxiety-like vulnerability to cocaine.

abstract：:Adult rats that were gestationally exposed to cocaine and control offspring were examined for their sensitivity to challenge doses of cocaine. Offspring were derived from Sprague-Dawley dams that had received subcutaneous injections of 40 mg/kg per 3 cc cocaine hydrochloride daily on gestational days 8-20, pair-fed da...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Heyser CJ,Rajachandran L,Spear NE,Spear LP

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature rats (starting weight at least 270 g) were treated daily with cannabis extract (daily THC dose 20 mg/kg) for 3 months. After a 1- to 4-month drug-free period, residual effects on a variety of behaviors were studied. No residual effects were found in learning of an eight-arm radial maze task, nor on a differenti...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Stiglick A,Kalant H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The use and misuse of prescription opiates in adolescent populations, and in particular, adolescent female populations, has increased dramatically in the past two decades. Given the significant role that opioids play in neuroendocrine function, exposure to opiates during this critical developmental period cou...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Byrnes JJ,Johnson NL,Carini LM,Byrnes EM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Spontaneous fluctuations in the size of the pupil in darkness are a recognized index of sleepiness, and these fluctuations can be quantitatively measured using the pupillographic sleepiness test (PST). The central noradrenergic system is believed to play a role in the maintenance of alertness, and there is ev...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Phillips MA,Szabadi E,Bradshaw CM

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:When paired with training, substances that increase monoaminergic transmission in the brain support motor and language learning in healthy subjects and in rehabilitation after brain lesions. OBJECTIVES:To test the hypotheses that enhancement of central norepinephrine by the selective norepinephrine reuptake ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Plewnia C,Hoppe J,Gerloff C

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic administration of the pre-synaptic alpha-adrenoreceptor agonist clonidine decreases the concentration of the extra-neuronal metabolite of noradrenaline normetanephrine in the amygdaloid cortex and increases it in the mid-brain. Conversely, blockade of these pre-synaptic receptors by yohimbine increases the nor...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Fludder JM,Leonard BE

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pindolol on the prolactin (PRL) and growth hormone (GH) responses to intravenous tryptophan (LTP) were studied in eight healthy male volunteers. Pindolol pretreatment (40 mg over 48 h) markedly attenuated the GH response to LTP and modestly, but significantly, reduced the LTP-induced increase in plasma ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Smith CE,Ware CJ,Cowen PJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one (three groups of seven), men and women, 25-50 years of age were studied to determine whether or not rebound insomnia would increase the likelihood of self administering a benzodiazepine (triazolam 0.25 mg) hypnotic. The groups compared were patients with insomnia and disturbed sleep, insomnia and normal sle...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Roehrs T,Merlotti L,Zorick F,Roth T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latent inhibition (LI) is a phenomenon in which repeated, non-reinforced presentation of a stimulus retards subsequent conditioning to that stimulus. Several recent experiments have suggested that LI is abolished following acute, low doses of amphetamine given during pre-exposure and conditioning, and this effect has ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Killcross AS,Robbins TW

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discriminative stimulus effect of midazolam, a short-acting benzodiazepine, was used for testing the effects of drugs thought to act as antagonists at different sites in the proposed benzodiazepine receptor complex. Rats were trained in a standard two-bar operant conditioning procedure with food reinforcers delive...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Stolerman IP,Garcha HS,Rose IC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over study in ten normal volunteers assessed the effects of the subcutaneous administration of adrenaline on platelet MAO activity, in an attempt to replicate previous findings of increased MAO activity following adrenaline. Platelet counts, cortisol plasma concentrations, and...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Gentil V,McCurdy RL,Alevizos B,Lader MH

更新日期：1976-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is thought to involve hypofunctional catecholamine systems in the striatum, nucleus accumbens, and prefrontal cortex (PFC); however, recent clinical evidence has implicated glutamate dysfunction in the pathophysiology of ADHD. Recent studies show that increased ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Miller EM,Pomerleau F,Huettl P,Gerhardt GA,Glaser PE

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study compared cocaine-induced hyperlocomotion and cocaine i.v. self-administration in DBA/2J and C57BL/6J mice. In the locomotor activity experiment, these strains were tested for hyperlocomotion after i.p. cocaine injection (0-60.0 mg/kg), using a Digiscan Animal Activity Monitoring System. In the cocain...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Rocha BA,Odom LA,Barron BA,Ator R,Wild SA,Forster MJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A paradigm for assessing benzodiazepine receptor sensitivity was developed using intravenous midazolam in normal volunteers. After administration of incremental doses of midazolam, alterations in saccadic eye movement parameters and psychological self ratings were assessed. Significant changes included dose-dependent ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ball DM,Glue P,Wilson S,Nutt DJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Alzheimer disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly. A combination of cholinergic and glutamatergic dysfunction appears to underlie the symptomatology of AD, and thus, treatment strategies should address impairments in both systems. Evidence sugges...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Schaeffer EL,Gattaz WF

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Alterations in protein kinase (PKA) protein levels have been implicated in the regulation of responses to and development of cocaine addiction. However, the contribution of differences in PKA intracellular cascade to the known sex differences in responses to cocaine is not well understood. This study exami...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Nazarian A,Sun WL,Zhou L,Kemen LM,Jenab S,Quinones-Jenab V

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Nearly 60-80% of women experience some form of sadness, anxiety, or anhedonia in the weeks following the birth of a child (Patel et al. 23(2):534-42, 2012; Degner 10: 359;j4692, 2017); however, the exact mechanisms that precipitate these changes in mood postpartum are still unknown. It is well-known that the ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Gomez J,Haas NA,Schwarz JM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Stimulation of central beta(2) adrenergic receptors produces antidepressant-like effects on behavior. At present, it is not known what brain sites are involved in mediating such effects, although some recent evidence suggests the importance of the dorsal hippocampus. OBJECTIVE:Experiments were carried out to...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Zhang HT,Huang Y,O'Donnell JM

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Atypical antipsychotic drug (APD)-induced weight gain causes non-compliance, increasing the risk of relapse and medical complications. OBJECTIVES:In an animal model, we assessed body weights, food intake, body fat/lean body mass contents and blood serum levels of glucose and lipids in female rats treated wit...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kalinichev M,Rourke C,Daniels AJ,Grizzle MK,Britt CS,Ignar DM,Jones DN

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel form of experimentally-induced conflict behavior based on the conditioned suppression of drinking (CSD) is described and compared with two conventional animal models of human anxiety--a modified Geller-Seifter and an Estes-Skinner (Conditioned Emotional Response) procedure. The CSD procedure offered significan...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kilts CD,Commissaris RL,Rech RH

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Delaying presentation of a drug can decrease its effectiveness as a reinforcer, but the effect of delaying punishment of drug self-administration is unknown. OBJECTIVE:This study examined whether a histamine injection could punish cocaine self-administration in a drug-drug choice, whether delaying histamine ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Woolverton WL,Freeman KB,Myerson J,Green L

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute tolerance, defined as a decreasing drug effect relative to drug-plasma levels (DPL) over a period of minutes to a few hours, is pronounced following single doses of diazepam or pentobarbital. Both of these lipid-soluble drugs produce an early peak behavioral impairment and subsequent rapid recovery component tha...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ellinwood EH Jr,Linnoila M,Easler ME,Molter DW

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Dopamine (DA) D2-like antagonists block several effects of cocaine, including its locomotor stimulant and interoceptive discriminative-stimulus effects. Because these compounds generally lack selectivity among the D2-like DA receptors, the specific roles of the subtypes remain unclear. OBJECTIVES:DA D2 recep...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Chausmer AL,Elmer GI,Rubinstein M,Low MJ,Grandy DK,Katz JL

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of single and repeated doses of triazolam (1 mg/kg IP) and desipramine (DMI) (10 mg/kg IP) alone and in combination on certain pharmacologic responses and brain catecholamine levels in rats. The significant findings were: (1) triazolam and DMI given alone and in...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kusaka M,Horikawa A,Meshi T,Maruyama Y

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of phencyclidine (PCP) on locomotor activity were compared to those of the stereoisomers of N-allylnormetazocine (NAN) after acute administration to rats. PCP produced swaying and falling movements, increased sniffing behavior, and enhanced horizontal locomotor activity. d-NAN also induced swaying, falling...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Iwamoto ET

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 14 schizophrenics who remained symptomatic after neuroleptic treatment received either 0.02 mcg/kg CCK-8 or saline placebo intravenously. Thereafter, 13 received the alternative infusion as a crossover treatment. A second group of 16 such patients received 0.04 mcg/kg CCK-8 or saline intravenously and, ther...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Peselow E,Angrist B,Sudilovsky A,Corwin J,Siekierski J,Trent F,Rotrosen J

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：RATIONALE:Studies have shown that social drinkers are poor estimators of alcohol-induced impairment. Underestimates of blood alcohol concentration and other indices of intoxication are associated with decisions to perform risky behaviors, such as operating a motor vehicle. It is possible that self-evaluations of impair...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Harrison EL,Fillmore MT

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behaviour was observed in mice given L-tryptophan, L-tyrosine or L-phenylalanine and then placed either in an open field or in water in a narrow cylinder. Animals placed in water (swim test) soon assume a characteristic immobile posture. Most antidepressants, including pharmacologically atypical ones, decrease immobil...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Gibson CJ,Deikel SM,Young SN,Binik YM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Neurosteroids are implicated in various stages of drug dependence, including the acquisition phase, tolerance, and withdrawal. The neurosteroid allopregnanolone is also able to substitute for drugs with abuse potential and possesses reinforcing properties. OBJECTIVES:The effects of acute treatment with, and ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Concas A,Sogliano C,Porcu P,Marra C,Brundu A,Biggio G

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00