Reduction in the latency of action of antidepressants by 17 beta-estradiol in the forced swimming test.

abstract：RATIONALE:Trichotillomania is characterized by repetitive pulling causing noticeable hair loss. Pharmacological treatment data for trichotillomania are limited. OBJECTIVE:Dronabinol appears to reduce the exocitotoxic damage caused by glutamate release in the striatum and offers promise in reducing compulsive behavior....

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Grant JE,Odlaug BL,Chamberlain SR,Kim SW

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：RATIONALE:The non-selective nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) agonist nicotine has been argued to improve attention via enhanced filtering of irrelevant stimuli. Here, we tested this hypothesis in the context of smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEMs), an oculomotor function previously shown to improve with nicotin...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Meyhöfer I,Kasparbauer AM,Steffens M,Ettinger U

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The influence of the main dopaminergic brain regions controlling copulation, the medial preoptic area (mPOA) and the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), on male rat sexual behavior expression has not been fully established. OBJECTIVE:This work analyzes the sexual effects of dopamine (DA) receptor activation in the mPO...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Guadarrama-Bazante IL,Rodríguez-Manzo G

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin (5-HT) afferents may modulate the dopamine mesoaccumbens circuit, which has been shown to be critically involved in the locomotor stimulatory, discriminative stimulus, and rewarding properties of cocaine. In the present study, we investigated the role of 5-HT1A receptors in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) i...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： De La Garza R 2nd,Callahan PM,Cunningham KA

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:The effects of benzodiazepine (BZ) antagonists on operant behavior were examined in rats chronically administered a low dose of diazepam (DZ). The low maintenance dose of DZ (5 mg/kg twice daily) was selected as more closely associated with its anxiolytic effects than the higher treatment doses previously used to stud...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Lucki I,Kucharik RF

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral performances of normotensive and hypertensive adult male baboons were tested before, during, and following chronic oral dosing with nifedipine. Performances during a five-color simultaneous match-to-sample task were measured during three dosing schedules (0.20, 0.68, and 1.14 mg/kg/day) and vehicle. Each do...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Turkkan JS,Hienz RD

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While chronic intermittent administration of stimulants often induces behavioral sensitization in adulthood, stimulant sensitization has rarely been reported prior to weaning [around postnatal day (P) 21]. Consistent pairing of drug administration with the test context often facilitates sensitization in adults, yet yo...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wood RD,Tirelli E,Snyder KJ,Heyser CJ,LaRocca TM,Spear LP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Hypericum perforatum L., known as St. John's wort (SJW), is used as a phytotherapeutic agent for the treatment of mild to moderate forms of depression. OBJECTIVES:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of SJW extract (STW 3-VI; 250 and 500 mg/kg; p.o.) and fluoxetine (10 mg/kg, p.o.) on gene...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Jungke P,Ostrow G,Li JL,Norton S,Nieber K,Kelber O,Butterweck V

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Environmental stimuli associated with drugs of abuse are believed to play a major role in the motivation to take drugs, drug dependence, and relapse. Previous work from this laboratory demonstrated that the response-contingent presentation of drug-related, visual cues was at least as important as nicotine in ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Caggiula AR,Donny EC,White AR,Chaudhri N,Booth S,Gharib MA,Hoffman A,Perkins KA,Sved AF

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the heels of clozapine, we now have a number of newer agents (risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, sertindole, and ziprasidone). Are they all the same? What are the differences? How do we best understand them? In this article we review current clinical evidence to compare these issues on four measures of atypicalit...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Remington G,Kapur S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies indicate that morphine dependence, assessed as the severity of naloxone-precipitated opiate withdrawal in rats, is attenuated by dizocipline, a non-competitive, excitatory amino acid antagonist. Because ethanol is a putative excitatory amino acid antagonist, the present study compared the effects of co-...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Shoemaker WJ,Kosten TA,Muly SM

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：RATIONALE:Repeated exposure to psychostimulant drugs causes a long-lasting increase in the psychomotor and reinforcing effects of these drugs and an array of neuroadaptations. One such alteration is a hypersensitivity of striatal activity such that a low dose of amphetamine in sensitized animals produces dorsal striata...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Nordquist RE,Vanderschuren LJ,Jonker AJ,Bergsma M,de Vries TJ,Pennartz CM,Voorn P

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Repetitive cocaine exposure has been shown to induce GABAergic thalamic alterations. Given the key role of T-type (Ca(V)3) calcium channels in thalamocortical physiology, the direct involvement of these calcium channels in cocaine-mediated effects needs to be further explored. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bisagno V,Raineri M,Peskin V,Wikinski SI,Uchitel OD,Llinás RR,Urbano FJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methaqualone produces a dose- and time-dependent increase in plasma corticosterone concentration in mice. Acute studies showed that this effect is largely independent of methaqualone-induced hypothermia but can be blocked by pretreatment with dexamethasone, thus demonstrating that the adrenal cortex is not being direc...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Meyer JS,Boggan WO

更新日期：1977-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Dysfunction of glutamatergic neurotransmission has been implicated in the pathophysiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and recent clinical reports suggest that some glutamate modulating agents are efficacious in the treatment of this disorder. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is a readily available amino acid...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Lafleur DL,Pittenger C,Kelmendi B,Gardner T,Wasylink S,Malison RT,Sanacora G,Krystal JH,Coric V

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work in this and another laboratory has shown that nicotine tablets improve the performance of a rapid information processing task and reduce the Stroop effect, whereas scopolamine has the opposite effects. The purpose of this study was to extend these previous findings by determining whether, when administer...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wesnes K,Revell A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Schizophrenia is a severe, persistent, and fairly common mental illness. Haloperidol is widely used and is effective against the symptoms of psychosis seen in schizophrenia. Chronic oral haloperidol administration decreased the number of astrocytes in the parietal cortex of macaque monkeys (Konopaske et al., ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Konopaske GT,Bolo NR,Basu AC,Renshaw PF,Coyle JT

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Serotonin (5-HT) plays a key role in different aspects of value-based decision-making. A recent framework proposed that tonic 5-HT (together with dopamine, DA) codes future average reward expectations, providing a baseline against which possible choice outcomes are compared to guide decision-making. OBJECTIV...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Neukam PT,Kroemer NB,Deza Araujo YI,Hellrung L,Pooseh S,Rietschel M,Witt SH,Schwarzenbolz U,Henle T,Smolka MN

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Cocaine-seeking behavior can be investigated in rodents using the conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm, in which the drug-paired environment serves as a conditioned stimulus. Such approach allowed to previously demonstrate the importance of the neuromodulatory sigma1 (sigma1) receptor in acquisition of...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Romieu P,Meunier J,Garcia D,Zozime N,Martin-Fardon R,Bowen WD,Maurice T

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sibutramine hydrochloride, a novel monoamine reuptake inhibitor antidepressant, has been studied to determine whether it alters dopaminergic function in the brain. Its effects have been compared with bupropion, a dopamine reuptake inhibitor, and methamphetamine, a dopamine reuptake inhibitor and releasing agent. Sibut...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Heal DJ,Frankland AT,Gosden J,Hutchins LJ,Prow MR,Luscombe GP,Buckett WR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although previous studies have shown that pharmacological agents, such as buprenorphine, and alternative nondrug reinforcers, such as money or sweetened solutions, reduce cocaine self-administration, few studies have examined the combined effects of these two approaches. The purpose of the present study was to evaluat...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Comer SD,Lac ST,Wyvell CL,Carroll ME

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Dopaminergic therapy improves some cognitive functions and worsens others in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). These paradoxical effects are explained by the dopamine overdose hypothesis, which proposes that effects of dopaminergic therapy on a cognitive function is determined by the baseline dopamine l...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Vo A,Seergobin KN,Morrow SA,MacDonald PA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two 2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (DPAT) compounds, 8-OH-DPAT and 5-OH-DPAT, with reported effects on central 5-HT and DA receptors respectively, were tested for their effects on the acoustic startle response in rats. 8-OH-DPAT was given in doses of 0.25-2.0 mg/kg IP and 5-OH-DPAT in doses of 1.0-8.0 mg/kg IP. Both com...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Svensson L,Ahlenius S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Serotonin 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C receptors are thought to be the primary pharmacological mechanisms for serotonin-mediated hallucinogenic drugs, but recently there has been interest in metabotropic glutamate (mGluR2) receptors as contributors to the mechanism of hallucinogens. OBJECTIVE:The present study assesses...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Carbonaro TM,Eshleman AJ,Forster MJ,Cheng K,Rice KC,Gatch MB

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Key-press responding of mice was maintained under a fixed-ratio (FR) 30-response schedule of food presentation. Successive 3-min periods during which the experimental chamber was illuminated and the schedule was in effect were preceded by 10-min time-out (TO) periods during which all lights were out and responses had ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Solomon RE,Goodrich JE,Katz JL

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple new method, the "tape test" has been developed for studying the enhancement of learning by drugs in "learning-dull" rats. A piece of adhesive tape is pressed on the left front pad of the rats. The time of tape removal by the animal, i.e., the problem-solving time is measured. In our experiments the selected l...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ezer E,Szporny L

更新日期：1976-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Intermittent footshock stress reliably reinstates extinguished alcohol-taking behavior in drug-free rats, but the neurochemical events involved in this effect are not known. OBJECTIVE:We studied here whether two main modulators of stress responses, corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and corticosterone, are...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Lê AD,Harding S,Juzytsch W,Watchus J,Shalev U,Shaham Y

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00