The endocannabinoid system as a target for modelling psychosis.

abstract：:The effects of six putative dopamine receptor agonists on exploratory behaviour in rats were assessed: pergolide, (+)- and (-)-3-PPP, bromocriptine, mesulergine and CQ 32-084. Behaviour was automatically recorded in a holeboard apparatus and the data were analysed by the novel multivariate statistical method of partia...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ståhle L,Ungerstedt U

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of bilateral nucleus accumbens microinjections of d-ala-met-enkephalinamide (DALA) were assessed in behavioral activation and lateral hypothalamic self-stimulation (LHSS) rate-frequency curve-shift paradigms in normal and accumbens 6-OHDA (4.0 micrograms) treated rats. Microinjections of DALA (2.5 microgra...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Johnson PL,Stellar JR

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：RATIONALE:Endogenous opioid systems within the mesencephalic periaqueductal gray matter (PAG) appear to be intricately involved in many affective, defensive, submissive, and reflexive responses, and these systems are activated by aversive stimuli. OBJECTIVES:The present experiments evaluated the influence of opioid re...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Vivian JA,Miczek KA

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Although both contain behaviourally significant concentrations of caffeine, tea is commonly perceived to be a less stimulating drink than coffee. At least part of the explanation for this may be that theanine, which is present in tea but not coffee, has relaxing effects. There is also some evidence that thean...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Rogers PJ,Smith JE,Heatherley SV,Pleydell-Pearce CW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Salvinorin A is the active component of the hallucinogenic plant Salvia divinorum. The potential mode of action of this hallucinogen was unknown until recently. A recent in vitro study detected high affinity and efficacy of salvinorin A at kappa-opioid receptors. It was postulated that salvinorin A would prod...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Butelman ER,Harris TJ,Kreek MJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Fluoxetine (Prozac®) is the most frequently prescribed drug to battle depression in pregnant women, but its safety in the unborn child has not yet been established. Fluoxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, crosses the placenta, leading to increased extracellular serotonin levels and potentially n...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Olivier JD,Vallès A,van Heesch F,Afrasiab-Middelman A,Roelofs JJ,Jonkers M,Peeters EJ,Korte-Bouws GA,Dederen JP,Kiliaan AJ,Martens GJ,Schubert D,Homberg JR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The circumstances of drug taking are thought to play a role in drug abuse but the evidence of it is anecdotal. Previous studies have shown that the intravenous self-administration of cocaine is facilitated in rats non-residing in the test chambers relative to rats that live in the test chambers at all times. ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Caprioli D,Celentano M,Paolone G,Lucantonio F,Bari A,Nencini P,Badiani A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral administration of the unsulphated cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8us) led to an anxiogenic-like action in the elevated plus-maze model of anxiety in rats. Devazepide and L-365,260 showed potent anxiolytic-like effects at similar doses. The fact that devazepide is 1000 times more potent as a CCK-A receptor...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Chopin P,Briley M

更新日期：1993-01-01 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 effects of intra-amygdala injections of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) on memory and exploratory behavior in rats were examined in the present study. Rats with chronically implanted cannulae received intra-amygdala injections of vehicle or CRF at a dose of 0.01, 0.1 or 1.0 micrograms, either immediately afte...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Liang KC,Lee EH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystokinin (CCK) and dopamine (DA) coexist in both cell body and terminal areas of a mesolimbic pathway that projects from the ventral tegmental area (VTA) to the nucleus accumbens (N ACC). Autoradiography reveals extensive CCK binding sites in the N ACC, but not in the VTA. However, iontophoresis of CCK into the...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Pettit HO,Mueller K

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different venlafaxine doses (1, 5, and 10 mg/kg) and saline solution were administered to ten male Wistar rats (Latin-Square design). Compared with saline, venlafaxine produced a dose-related suppression of REM sleep and an increase in wake time while slow wave sleep was reduced. This effect is similar to the one that...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Salin-Pascual RJ,Moro-Lopez ML

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Ecstasy is a commonly used psychoactive drug with 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) as the main content. Importantly, it has been suggested that use of MDMA may be neurotoxic particularly for serotonergic (5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)) neurons. In the past decades, several molecular imaging studies exami...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Vegting Y,Reneman L,Booij J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theory of acute tolerance to alcohol is proposed that includes two assumptions: 1) acute tolerance is a linear process with time, and 2) the slope of the line is a measure of the magnitude of the acute tolerance effect. Evidence that supports the validity of the theory is presented both from studies in which blood a...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Radlow R

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Antidepressants are known to modify human sleep patterns. OBJECTIVES:Duloxetine is a new antidepressant with a mechanism of action involving reuptake inhibition of both serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE). In this study, the effects of two dosing regimens of duloxetine on sleep electroencephalography (E...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Chalon S,Pereira A,Lainey E,Vandenhende F,Watkin JG,Staner L,Granier LA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marijuana intoxication appears to impair response inhibition, but it is unclear if impaired inhibition and associated brain abnormalities persist after prolonged abstinence among adolescent users. We hypothesized that brain activation during a go/no-go task would show persistent abnormalities in adolescent m...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Tapert SF,Schweinsburg AD,Drummond SP,Paulus MP,Brown SA,Yang TT,Frank LR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have demonstrated a paradoxical form of antinociception induced by the repeated administration of opioid antagonists accompanied by exposure to a painful stimulus. The underlying mechanism of this naloxone-induced antinociception (NIA) is still unknown, but the results of several studies suggest that i...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Walker MJ,Poulos CX,Le AD

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Two experiments were carried out on pigeons to assess the effects of acute ethanol (ETOH) administration on a delayed pair comparison procedure. ETOH disrupted performance at the two higher doses (1.0 and 2.0 g/kg, given orally). When the initial (zero delay) performance levels of treated and untreated birds were equa...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Sahgal A,Ekberg SC,Howell SJ,Iversen SD

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The asymptomatic and clinical stages of Parkinson's disease (PD) are associated with comorbid non-motor symptoms including gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction. Although the neuroprotective and gastroprotective roles of kolaviron (KV) have been reported independently, whether KV-mediated GI-protective capacity could be b...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Farombi EO,Awogbindin IO,Olorunkalu PD,Ogbuewu E,Oyetunde BF,Agedah AE,Adeniyi PA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The augmentation effect of (-)pindolol as used in combination with SSRI to treat major depression has been ascribed to blocking of dorsal raphe nucleus cell body 5-HT autoreceptors. In this study, the radioligand [carbonyl-11C]WAY-100635 and positron emission tomography were used to establish whether pindolol at a cli...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Andrée B,Thorberg SO,Halldin C,Farde L

更新日期：1999-06-01 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:Previous observations revealed that defeated and subsequently individually housed rats do not display behavioral anticipatory responses to the conditioned presentation of a bell/light stimulus associated with free access to a 5% sucrose solution reward. The absence of the appetitive responses suggests a decre...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Von Frijtag JC,Van den Bos R,Spruijt BM

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2-[14C]deoxyglucose method was used to compare the effects of the acute administration of cocaine by two different routes, intravenous and intraperitoneal, on rates of local cerebral glucose utilization in freely moving rats. Doses were initially chosen on the basis of their ability to elicit equivalent increases ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Porrino LJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that tolerance to the hypothermic effect of ethanol fails to develop if rats are denied the unconditional stimulus represented by hypothermia. In both experiments, rats were injected with either ethanol (1.9 or 2.5 g/kg) or saline and given microwave hyperthermia (...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Hjeresen DL,Reed DR,Woods SC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphetamine (AMP) administered in high doses suppresses feeding. However, in low doses AMP has been shown to both suppress and facilitate feeding. Further, there is some indication of individual differences in the feeding response to low doses of AMP. Evidence indicates that AMP's effects on feeding are dopamine-media...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Sills TL,Vaccarino FJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:The suggestions that dopamine (DA) systems are involved in "motor control" and "reward" represent the classic working hypotheses on the behavioral functions of these systems. The research generated by these hypotheses has yielded results that are far more complicated than the simplest form of either hypothesis would i...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Salamone JD

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antipsychotic drugs haloperidol and clozapine have the common action of increasing dopamine metabolism in the striatum (nucleus accumbens, caudate-putamen) of the rat. Intracerebroventricular administration of kainic acid (KA) produces neuronal loss in limbic-cortical brain regions which project directly or indire...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bardgett ME,Salaris SL,Jackson JL,Harding J,Csernansky JG

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00