Ghrelin receptor antagonism attenuates cocaine- and amphetamine-induced locomotor stimulation, accumbal dopamine release, and conditioned place preference.

abstract：RATIONALE:Alcohol and nicotine addiction are prevalent conditions that co-occur. Despite the prevalence of co-use, factors that influence the suppression and enhancement of concurrent alcohol and nicotine intake are largely unknown. OBJECTIVES:Our goals were to assess how nicotine abstinence and availability influence...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： DeBaker MC,Moen JK,Robinson JM,Wickman K,Lee AM

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inferior colliculus is involved in conveying auditory information of an aversive nature to higher cortical structures. Gradual increases in the electrical stimulation of this structure produce progressive aversive responses from vigilance, through freezing, until escape. Recently, we have shown that microinjection...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Pandossio JE,Brandão ML

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Cue-elicited craving and stress responses have been identified as predictors of relapse in drug dependence, but little research exists on the contribution of these factors to marijuana use specifically. OBJECTIVES:The aims of the present study were to evaluate (1) responses to a psychological stressor, (2) r...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： McRae-Clark AL,Carter RE,Price KL,Baker NL,Thomas S,Saladin ME,Giarla K,Nicholas K,Brady KT

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the majority of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, long-term dopamine (DA) replacement therapy leads to dyskinesia characterized by abnormal involuntary movements (AIMs). There are various mechanisms of dyskinesia, such as the sensitization of striatal DA D1 receptors (D1R) and upregulation of DA D3 receptors (D3R)...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Lanza K,Chemakin K,Lefkowitz S,Saito C,Chambers N,Bishop C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The role of pharmacotherapy in the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) in youth has received much attention in recent years due to concerns of efficacy and safety of the antidepressants for the treatment of MDD in youth. OBJECTIVES:This review describes the existing published and unpublished literat...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Boylan K,Romero S,Birmaher B

更新日期：2007-03-01 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 effects of the enantiomers of 3-PPP on the maintenance of conditioned avoidance responding (CAR) were studied. The weak classical dopamine (DA) agonist (+)-3-PPP failed to interfere with CAR at any dose tested (0.8-13.6 mg/kg). Low doses of the drug produced sedation, while high doses produced behavioural stimulat...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Clark D,Carlsson A,Hjorth S,Engel J,Lindberg P

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:Neither acquisition learning nor 24-h retention was significantly altered by 6-hydroxydopamine intracerebral injections which depleted forebrain noradrenaline (NA) to less than 5% of control values. The absence of passive avoidance impairment cannot be ascribed to functional recovery following the lesion (indicated by...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Mason ST,Fibiger HC

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified hyponeophagia test is described as an animal model of anxiety. The effects of 0, 0.3, 1.0, 3.0 and 10 mg/kg diazepam, given both acutely and for 7 days pretest, were assessed in rats. Acutely, diazepam reduced hyponeophagia over the dose range 0.3-3.0 mg/kg but 10.0 mg/kg produced sedation and large variabi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Shephard RA,Broadhurst PL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects on one-way active avoidance conditioning of pre-training, systemic administration of the selective mu-receptor agonist [D-Ala2,N-Me-Phe4, Gly-ol]enkephalin (DAGO), and the selective mu-receptor antagonist (D-Phe-Cys-Tyr-D-Trp-Orn-Thr-Pen-Thr-NH2 (CTOP), were determined in Swiss-Webster mice. A low dose of ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Schulteis G,Martinez JL Jr

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Depressed patients robustly exhibit affective biases in emotional processing which are altered by SSRIs and predict clinical outcome. OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study is to investigate whether psilocybin, recently shown to rapidly improve mood in treatment-resistant depression (TRD), alters patients' e...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Stroud JB,Freeman TP,Leech R,Hindocha C,Lawn W,Nutt DJ,Curran HV,Carhart-Harris RL

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Psychomotor stimulants can induce psychotic states in humans that closely resemble those observed in patients with idiopathic schizophrenia. Attentional and sensorimotor gating impairments are observed in schizophrenic patients using the latent inhibition (LI) and prepulse inhibition (PPI) behavioral assays, ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Russig H,Murphy CA,Feldon J

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:A technique is described for studying exploratory as well as stereotyped behaviour in rats using an automated hole-board. Both visual and automated recordings can be employed using the technique. Hole dipping is monitored automatically using an infra-red detector system. Repetitive patterns of hole-dipping are used as...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Makanjuola RO,Hill G,Maben I,Dow RC,Ashcroft GW

更新日期：1977-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Progabide inhibited male rat sexual behavior at a dose of 200 mg/kg. This dose had only modest effects on ambulatory activity and no effect at all on motor coordination as evaluated by a rotarod test. The GABAA antagonist bicuculline, at a dose of 1 mg/kg, blocked the effects of progabide on sex behavior. In contrast,...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Agmo A,Paredes RG,Sierra L,Garcés I

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Many previous studies have reported that alcohol and cannabis produce additive psychomotor effects in acute combination, but few have explicitly tested whether chronic exposure to cannabis, in the absence of acute administration, alters the effects of alcohol on psychomotor performance. OBJECTIVES:To test wh...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wright A,Terry P

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:(+)-HA-966, a partial agonist at the glycine/NMDA modulatory site, significantly reduced i.v. cocaine self-administration in a fixed-ratio (FR) schedule. Since this effect was observed studying only one dose of cocaine and considering the characteristic bell-shaped curve generated by cocaine in self-administr...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Cervo L,Cocco A,Carnovali F

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:The general premise that receptor theory provides a useful framework for understanding the behavioral effects of psychoactive drugs has been a central tenet of behavioral pharmacology. OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this review is to reiterate this basic theme and, in particular, the proposition that current con...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bergman J,France CP,Holtzman SG,Katz JL,Koek W,Stephens DN

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two putative predictors of placebo response were studied in three samples of psychiatric outpatients. Two groups, 73 university medical center patients and 56 college health service patients, underwent 1 week of placebo treatment. A quasi-control group of 112 patients receiving no medication waited about 1 week before...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： McNair DM,Gardos G,Haskell DS,Fisher S

更新日期：1979-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Voluntary consumption of alcohol by rats (i.e. in the absence of food or water deprivation, sweetening of the alcohol solution, etc.) that results in the attainment of behaviorally significant or pharmacologically detectable blood alcohol levels (BALs) has been difficult to demonstrate. In this study, we showed that f...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Linseman MA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Most adult smokers start smoking during their adolescence. This adolescent initiation may be due to multiple factors, but little evidence is available regarding whether their brains are differentially sensitive to the addictive effects of nicotine during adolescence. OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that ado...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Belluzzi JD,Lee AG,Oliff HS,Leslie FM

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Anti-psychotic treatment appears to be associated with striatal volume increase, but how early this change occurs is still unknown. METHODS:A single prospective cohort of 20 anti-psychotic-naïve patients, newly diagnosed with schizophrenia, underwent magnetic resonance imaging brain scan at baseline. This w...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Deng MY,McAlonan GM,Cheung C,Chiu CP,Law CW,Cheung V,Sham PC,Chen EY,Chua SE

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to (i) characterise the mouse behavioural profile (particularly social interactions) during the preweaning period, (ii) assess the effects of prenatal exposure to an anticonvulsant drug widely used in clinical practice, (iii) examine possible genetic differences both in baseline behavi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Laviola G,Terranova ML,Sedowofia K,Clayton R,Manning A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroleptic-free schizophrenic patients received caerulein, a potent analogue of cholecystokinin octapeptide, in a fixed- and rising-dose schedule. In addition, neuroleptic-treated patients received a single dose of the peptide with a 4-week follow-up. No significant change in mental status was observed after any of t...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Tamminga CA,Littman RL,Alphs LD,Chase TN,Thaker GK,Wagman AM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red blood cell (RBC) glycine levels were examined in 27 bipolar patients, treated with lithium carbonate for a minimum of 8 months, who were either hypomanic, depressed, or euthymic in their mood. We found no difference in the RBC glycine or in the RBC: plasma glycine ratio between the hypomanic, depressed, or euthymi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Peselow ED,Deutsch SI,Stanley M,Banay-Schwartz M,Virgilio J,Fieve RR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Cocaethylene is a pharmacologically active homolog and metabolite of cocaine, formed by transesterification of cocaine in the presence of ethanol. Here we relate findings from a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study in which we examined the physiological and subjective effects and pharmacokinetic...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Hart CL,Jatlow P,Sevarino KA,McCance-Katz EF

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00