The role of NMDA receptors in the signal attenuation rat model of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

abstract：:The effects of methylglucamine orotate (MGO) were studied on polygraphic sleep recordings in rats for 8 h per day between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. MGO (225 mg/kg) was injected intraperitoneally immediately prior to the onset of recording. In the acute experiment, the effect of MGO was compared to pre- and post-drug control d...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wetzel W,Ott T,Matthies HK,Matthies H

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were treated once with doses of haloperidol or of droperidol below and above the acute ID50 vs the dopamine agonist apomorphine; they were later challenged with an acute dose of apomorphine (0.3 mg/kg, SC) and rated for stereotyped behavioral responses. The two neuroleptics were similar in acute anti-apomorphine ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Campbell A,Baldessarini RJ,Teicher MH,Kula NS

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Schizophrenia is a disorder with cognitive deficits that could stem from cholinergic dysfunction. OBJECTIVES:Our aim was to examine if donepezil administered to stable, medicated outpatients with schizophrenia improves cognition and psychopathology. METHODS:We conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled tri...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Freudenreich O,Herz L,Deckersbach T,Evins AE,Henderson DC,Cather C,Goff DC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve healthy male volunteers took part in a double-blind randomised cross-over study composed of three treatment sessions: remoxipride 100 mg; remoxipride 100 mg plus biperiden 4 mg; and biperiden 4 mg. Plasma and urine concentrations of remoxipride and biperiden, plasma prolactin levels, salivary flow and adverse e...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Yisak W,Farde L,von Bahr C,Nilsson LB,Fredriksson G,Ogenstad S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration of taurine on amnesia, convulsions and death caused by hypoxia was investigated in mice. Taurine in doses of 80-100 micrograms/mouse impaired acquisition of a single trial in passive avoidance performance, but protected mice from the learning impairment in...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Malcangio M,Bartolini A,Ghelardini C,Bennardini F,Malmberg-Aiello P,Franconi F,Giotti A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These experiments examined the neurochemical mechanisms involved in the development and expression of place conditioning produced by heroin. Conditioned place preferences (CPP) lasting up to 8 weeks were obtained with doses of 50-1000 micrograms/kg heroin, using a regimen shown not to produce physical dependence. Nalo...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Hand TH,Stinus L,Le Moal M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of long-term treatment with clozapine in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder was evaluated in a retrospective study comprising 96 patients treated with the drug during the period 1974-1986 at the Psychiatric Research Center in Uppsala. All patients had previously been treated with different kinds of ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Lindström LH

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants are increasingly prescribed during pregnancy. Changes in serotonergic signaling during human fetal development have been associated with changes in brain development and with changes in affective behavior in adulthood. The suprachiasmatic nucleus (...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Houwing DJ,de Waard J,Ramsteijn AS,Woelders T,de Boer SF,Wams EJ,Olivier JDA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscimol, a structural analog of GABA, significantly potentiated pilocarpine-induced analgesia in rats, but failed to alter pilocarpine-induced catalepsy. It also failed to affect pilocarpine-elicited increase in homovanillic acid levels in the striatum. These findings suggest that the potentiation of pilocarpine-indu...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Naik SR,Kelkar MR,Amladi SR,Sheth UK

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Exposure to extreme stress has been suggested to produce long-term, detrimental alterations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis leading to the development of mental disorders such as depression. Therefore, compounds that block the effects of stress hormones were investigated as potential therapeu...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Jutkiewicz EM,Wood SK,Houshyar H,Hsin LW,Rice KC,Woods JH

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Second-generation antipsychotics are the first-line medications prescribed for schizophrenic patients; however, some of them, such as olanzapine and risperidone, may induce metabolic dysfunctions during short-term treatment. Metformin is an effective adjuvant that attenuates antipsychotic-induced metabolic dy...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Luo C,Wang X,Mao X,Huang H,Liu Y,Zhao J,Zhou H,Liu Z,Li X

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that depletion of forebrain norepinephrine (NE) led to an attenuation of neophobia in a novel environment, as defined by a greater preference for novel food over familiar food. To study further the role of forebrain NE in neophobia we chronically infused noradrenergic receptor ligands o...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Steketee JD,Silverman PB,Swann AC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Chronic nicotine administration decreases the functioning of the cystine-glutamate antiporter system x(c)- which is hypothesized to promote nicotine-taking and nicotine-seeking behaviors. N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a cystine pro-drug, increases the activity of the cystine-glutamate antiporter system x(c)-. Thus,...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ramirez-Niño AM,D'Souza MS,Markou A

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：RATIONALE:Available neurochemical probes that lower brain dopamine (DA) levels in man are limited by their tolerability and efficacy. For instance, the acute lowering of brain tyrosine is well tolerated, but only modestly lowers brain DA levels. Modification of tyrosine depletion to robustly lower DA levels would provi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Brodnik Z,Double M,Jaskiw GE

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Zotepine is an antipsychotic drug with proven efficacy for treatment of acute episodes of schizophrenia. Antipsychotic drugs also require to be effective in prevention of recurrence. OBJECTIVE:This trial was designed to compare the effects of zotepine and placebo in the prevention of recurrence of acute epis...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Cooper SJ,Butler A,Tweed J,Welch C,Raniwalla J

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study compares the behavioral profiles induced in rats (N = 118) by the D2-dopaminergic receptor agonist quinpirole (0.03 and 0.5 mg/kg), and the D1-agonist SKF38393 (1.25-40 mg/kg), and both agonists administered together. Locomotion and snout contact frequency were reduced by the low but increased by the high do...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Eilam D,Talangbayan H,Canaran G,Szechtman H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forskolin, a diterpene isolated from the plant Coleus forskolii, activates the catalytic subunit of adenylate cyclase, resulting in a hormone receptor-independent increase in the intracellular production of cyclic AMP. This study was undertaken to assess the effect of chronic in vivo infusion of forskolin on noradrene...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Suzdak PD,Browne RG

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Clinical observations have shown that pain sensitivity is altered in some schizophrenic patients. OBJECTIVES:To study alterations in pain sensitivity, the ketamine model in schizophrenia research was employed. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Rats were subchronically injected with the dissociative anaesthetic ketamine...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Becker A,Grecksch G,Schröder H

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic treatment of rats with choline caused a decrease in the hypothermic response to pilocarpine. The action of choline on the muscarinic receptors is consistent with electrophysiological and binding studies, supporting a direct muscarinic action for choline. Administration of direct muscarinic agonists has been sh...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Pomara N,Block R,Demetriou S,Fucek F,Stanley M,Gershon S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of mu and kappa opioids to alter the discriminative-stimulus and rate-decreasing effects of the 5-HT1A receptor agonist 8-OH-DPAT was examined in rats trained to discriminate either a low (0.1 mg/kg) or a high (0.3 mg/kg) dose of 8-OH-DPAT from water using a two-lever food-reinforced drug discrimination pr...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Morgan D,Picker MJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Performance on progressive ratio schedules has been proposed as a means of assessing the effects of drugs on the value or "efficacy" of reinforcers. A mathematical model affords a basis for quantifying the effects of drugs on progressive ratio schedule performance. According to this model, the relation betwee...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Zhang Z,Rickard JF,Asgari K,Body S,Bradshaw CM,Szabadi E

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Schizophrenia is characterized by a large variety of cognitive symptoms, among which information processing deficits have been extensively studied. So far, these aspects have been found to be remarkably stable and effective treatment is still lacking. Traditionally, information processing is subdivided into p...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ellenbroek BA

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma fluphenazine levels and plasma total neuroleptic activity (as quantitated by the neuroleptic receptor binding assay) were related to therapeutic response in 15 DSM-III schizophrenic patients who received a predetermined, fixed dose of fluphenazine for 14 days. Mean neuroleptic activity of the plasma was 84% gre...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Hitzemann RJ,Garver DL,Mavroidis M,Hirschowitz J,Zemlan FP

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) contrast pharmacological magnetic resonance imaging (phMRI) is an increasingly popular technique that allows the non-invasive investigation of spatial and temporal changes in rat brain function in response to pharmacological stimulation in vivo. Rat brain BOL...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Steward CA,Marsden CA,Prior MJ,Morris PG,Shah YB

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Preclinical studies indicate that gonadal hormones are important determinants of drug self-administration. To date, little is known about the influence of sex and estrous cycle on drug self-administration in ecologically relevant social contexts. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to examine the role ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Lacy RT,Strickland JC,Feinstein MA,Robinson AM,Smith MA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five elderly depressed patients were treated with amitriptyline (AT) and nortriptyline (NT) in turn, in a cross-over design. Steady-state plasma drug levels were compared with those calculated for eight healthy subjects of previous single-dose studies. Plasma clearances were on average about 2.5 times lower in the pat...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Burch JE

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Epidemiological studies of smokers suggest that there is a link between nicotine and depression. Nonetheless, few studies have examined the potential use of nicotinic ligands in the treatment of depression. OBJECTIVES:The goal of this study was to evaluate the effects of SIB-1508Y, a novel subtype-selective ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ferguson SM,Brodkin JD,Lloyd GK,Menzaghi F

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review the literature regarding the pharmacokinetics of long-acting injectable neuroleptic drugs (LINS). There are important differences between LINS and oral neuroleptics that affect their pharmacokinetics. By avoiding first pass metabolism in gut and liver, LINS result in lower circulating concentrations...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Marder SR,Hubbard JW,Van Putten T,Midha KK

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:A growing number of studies suggest that gamma-aminobutyric acid type-B (GABA(B)) receptor agonists reduce alcohol use and craving. OBJECTIVES:This study was designed to further clarify behavioral mechanism(s) by which GABA(B) agonists may decrease alcohol reinforcement. METHODS:Male C57BL/6 J mice were tra...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Besheer J,Lepoutre V,Hodge CW

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00