The catechol-O-methyltransferase Val(108/158)Met polymorphism affects antidepressant response to paroxetine in a naturalistic setting.

abstract：:In a phase II study the antidepressive effect of citalopram, a selective and potent serotonin reuptake inhibitor, was examined in 20 endogenously and three non-endogenously depressed hospitalized patients. Four endogenously depressed patients dropped out due to deterioration early in the treatment period. The remainin...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Pedersen OL,Kragh-Sørensen P,Bjerre M,Overø KF,Gram LF

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between pimozide (a selective D2-dopamine receptor antagonist) and d-amphetamine on the operant performance of rats maintained under variable-interval schedules of positive reinforcement was examined. In Experiment 1, eight rats responded under variable-interval 30-s and variable-interval 300-s. Pimozi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Morley MJ,Bradshaw CM,Szabadi E

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotonergic agent meta-chlorophenylpiperazine (m-CPP) increases temperature and plasma ACTH and other hormones and decreases social interaction, locomotor activity and food intake in rats, most likely via stimulation of 5-HT2C receptors. Repeated daily administration of m-CPP to rats induces rapid tolerance to th...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Benjamin J,Greenberg BD,Murphy DL

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:We recently demonstrated that blocking specific nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) abolishes the conditioned reinforcing properties of ethanol-associated cues in rat, suggesting nAChRs as promising pharmacological targets for prevention of cue-induced relapse. OBJECTIVES:The present study investigate...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Löf E,Olausson P,Stomberg R,Taylor JR,Söderpalm B

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) differs from other types of hallucinogens in that it possesses direct dopaminergic effects. The exact nature of this component has not been elucidated. OBJECTIVE:The present study sought to characterize the effects of several dopamine D(4) agonists and antagonists on the disc...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Marona-Lewicka D,Chemel BR,Nichols DE

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is commonly believed that repeated exposures diminish the pleasurable effects of drugs and hence that pleasure must have only a minor role in addiction. In six experiments with rats, repeated exposures to amphetamine, morphine, or cocaine were found to enhance the drug-induced rewarding effect as measured by condit...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Lett BT

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The i.v. pentylenetetrazol seizure threshold was increased by 2.5 mg/kg and decreased by 15 mg/kg of a single (+)-amphetamine dose. After 7 consecutive days of amphetamine administration, tolerance developed to the decrease but not to the increase in seizure threshold. At 12--48 h after the last dose of 2.5 mg/kg seiz...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Riffee WH,Gerald MC

更新日期：1977-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:A dopamine receptor 4 variable number tandem repeat (DRD4 VNTR) polymorphism has been related to reactivity to smoking cues among smokers, but the effect of this genetic variation on brain responses to smoking cues has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVES:The present study evaluated the relationship between carryi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： McClernon FJ,Hutchison KE,Rose JE,Kozink RV

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that reward-related learning may require intact functioning at the dopamine D1 receptor. The present experiment tested this hypothesis by challenging the reward-enhancing effects of the D2 agonist, bromocriptine, with a D1 antagonist, SCH 23390. For comparison, the effects of the D2 antagonist, p...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ranaldi R,Beninger RJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marked changes in biophysical properties, including structural order, have been observed in the hydrophobic core of cell membranes exposed to phenothiazines in vitro. In this study, similar changes are reported in vivo in cell membranes from the brains of rats treated with phenothiazines at doses thought to yield tiss...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Cohen BM,Zubenko GS

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although ethanol is frequently used in combination with other psychoactive drugs, the behavioral and pharmacological reasons for this form of polydrug abuse have not been well described. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Rhesus monkeys with indwelling intravenous catheters produced intravenous injections of ethanol (50...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Winger G,Galuska CM,Hursh SR

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Hypersignaling of corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) has been implicated in stress disorders; however, many of its downstream mechanisms of action remain unclear. In vitro, CRF1 receptor activation initiates multiple cell signaling cascades, including protein kinase A (PKA), protein kinase C (PKC), and mito...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Toth M,Gresack JE,Hauger RL,Halberstadt AL,Risbrough VB

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Each year, over 300,000 individuals in the USA enter treatment for cannabis use disorder (CUD). The development of effective pharmacotherapy for CUD is a priority. OBJECTIVE:This placebo-controlled study examined the effects of zolpidem alone and in combination with nabilone on cannabis withdrawal and a labo...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Herrmann ES,Cooper ZD,Bedi G,Ramesh D,Reed SC,Comer SD,Foltin RW,Haney M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study employed an animal model of drug relapse in which previously extinguished heroin self-administration behavior was reinstated following a single reinforced trial. Male albino rats were trained to traverse a straight-alley for a reinforcer consisting of a single IV injection of 0.06 mg/kg diacetylmorph...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ettenberg A,MacConell LA,Geist TD

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Over the last decade, many new psychostimulant analogues have appeared on the recreational drug market and most are derivatives of amphetamine or cathinone. Another class of designer drugs is derived from the 2-aminoindan structural template. Several members of this class, including the parent compound 2-amin...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Halberstadt AL,Brandt SD,Walther D,Baumann MH

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food intake of four adult male baboons (Papio c. anubis) was monitored during daily experimental sessions lasting 22 h. Food was available under a two-component operant schedule. Following completion of the first "procurement component" response requirement, access to food, i.e., a meal, became available under the sec...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Foltin RW,Fischman MW,Byrne MF

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Non-contingent chronic nicotine exposure procedures have evolved rapidly in recent years, culminating in electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS or e-cigarettes) to deliver vaporized drugs to rodents in standard housing chambers. OBJECTIVES:The aim of the current work was to use ENDS to test concentration...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Montanari C,Kelley LK,Kerr TM,Cole M,Gilpin NW

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acamprosate (calcium-acetyl homotaurinate) is a new compound used in the treatment of alcohol abuse. Because of the putative link between alcoholism and the endogenous opioid systems in both humans and laboratory animals, we tested in rats the effects of acamprosate on behavioral and neurochemical effects of opioid dr...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Spanagel R,Sillaber I,Zieglgänsberger W,Corrigall WA,Stewart J,Shaham Y

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:Serotonergic mechanisms mediate the expression of personality traits (such as impulsivity, aggression and anxiety) that are linked to vulnerability to psychological illnesses, and modulate the identification of emotional expressions in the face as well as learning about broader classes of appetitive and aversive signa...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ward R,Sreenivas S,Read J,Saunders KEA,Rogers RD

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of bromocriptine, lisuride and apomorphine on specific binding of 3H-spiroperidol to homogenates of rat caudate nucleus were studied. (+)-Butaclamol was used to define specific binding. Bromocriptine and lisuride inhibited binding markedly, in vitro and also 30 min after in vivo injection. Bromocriptine co...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Weir RL,Hruska RE,Silbergeld EK

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE:Despite the popularity of polysubstance abuse among recreational methylendioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) users, relatively few controlled experimental studies have documented the neurobehavioral effects of MDMA in combination with other abused substances. OBJECTIVE:In this study, the combined acut...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Panos JJ,Baker LE

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：RATIONALE:Animal studies indicate that dopamine pathways in the ventral striatum code for the motivational salience of both rewarding and aversive stimuli, but evidence for this mechanism in humans is less established. We have developed a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) model which permits examination of t...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： McCabe C,Huber A,Harmer CJ,Cowen PJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the development of tolerance to ethanol and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal cortex (H-P-AC) system by modifying the H-P-AC system through the use of a synthetic glucocorticoid, dexamethasone. Also this study determined whether repeated drug administr...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wood WG

更新日期：1977-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The present dose-response study investigated the effects of the benzodiazepine oxazepam (Serax) on anxiety as measured by autonomic and self-report indices in a nonclinical sample. Given Fowles' (1980, 1988) theory that electrodermal activity primarily reflects the activity of the behavioral inhibition system (BIS) wh...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Landon JF,Sher KJ,Shah JH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Synthesis of ligands inactive or with low activity at α₁ GABA(A) receptors has become the key concept for development of novel, more tolerable benzodiazepine (BZ)-like drugs. WYS8, a remarkably (105 times) α₁-subtype selective partial positive modulator, may serve as a pharmacological tool for refining the ro...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Joksimović S,Varagic Z,Kovačević J,Van Linn M,Milić M,Rallapalli S,Timić T,Sieghart W,Cook JM,Savić MM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates that the selective delta receptor antagonists ICI 174864 and naltrindole (NTI) attenuate alcohol intake in a dose-dependent manner, without altering water intake, in rats selectively bred for alcohol preference. ICI 174864 had a very limited duration of action, as evidenced by the fact that sup...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Krishnan-Sarin S,Jing SL,Kurtz DL,Zweifel M,Portoghese PS,Li TK,Froehlich JC

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Aminoadamantanes represent a class of NMDA glutamate receptor antagonists that reduce alcohol consumption and may prevent alcohol-induced neuronal adaptations and side effects. OBJECTIVE:Behavioral specificity of memantine and amantadine on alcohol drinking in a schedule-induced polydipsia (SIP) task was inv...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Escher T,Call SB,Blaha CD,Mittleman G

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is common in patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) and may precede the onset of the dementia; the underlying biological and neurotransmitter mechanisms may be common to both diseases, so far as norepinephrine lesions are concerned. The major routes of metabolism of amines in the brain u...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Chan-Palay V

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00