Inhibitory effect of ritanserin on the 5-hydroxytryptophan-mediated cortisol, ACTH and prolactin secretion in humans.

abstract：RATIONALE:Sensory and sensorimotor gating deficits are observed in schizophrenia. GABA(B) receptor deficiency is also detected in the hippocampus of schizophrenic patients. OBJECTIVES:The present study tested the hypothesis that GABA(B) receptors in the hippocampus contribute to paired-pulse gating of hippocampal audi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ma J,Leung LS

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing interest in the potential functional role of the octapeptide angiotensin II (AII) in psychiatric and cognitive disorders. The novel angiotensin II (AII) receptor antagonists, losartan and PD123177, selective for the AT1 and AT2 receptor subtypes respectively, constitute important pharmacological to...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Shepherd J,Bill DJ,Dourish CT,Grewal SS,McLenachan A,Stanhope KJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Morphine and buprenorphine have analgesic and anxiolytic-like properties. While their analgesic effects have been well characterized, their anxiolytic-like properties have not. OBJECTIVES:Effects of acute morphine and buprenorphine on the expression of acoustic fear-potentiated startle (FPS) and naloxone pre...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Glover EM,Davis M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Neurobiological models of addiction suggest that abnormalities of brain reward circuitry distort salience attribution and inhibitory control processes, which in turn contribute to high relapse rates. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study is to determine whether impairments of salience attribution and inhibitory c...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Powell J,Dawkins L,West R,Powell J,Pickering A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Successive negative contrast (SNC) describes a change in the behaviour of an animal following a downshift in the quantitative or qualitative value of an expected reward. This behavioural response has been hypothesised to be linked to affective state, with negative states associated with larger and/or prolonge...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Phelps CE,Mitchell EN,Nutt DJ,Marston HM,Robinson ES

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of the serotonin (5-HT)1A receptor agonist 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (8-OH-DPAT) facilitates the expression of masculine sexual behavior in male and female rats as well as in male rhesus monkeys and inhibits lordosis behavior in female rats. In the present study the effects of 8-OH-DPAT on ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Paredes RG,Kica E,Baum MJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of eight serotonin (5-HT) receptor antagonists on the anorectic effect of d-fenfluramine (3.0 mg/kg, IP) were examined in a test of sweet mash consumption, using non-deprived male rats. d-Fenfluramine's effect was attenuated by the mixed 5-HT1/5-HT2 receptor antagonists, methiothepin and metergoline; by th...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Neill JC,Cooper SJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of clozapine (CLOZ) upon acquired schedule-induced polydipsia in rats were compared to the effects of the dopamine (DA) D1 antagonist SCH 23390 (SCH) and the DA D2 antagonist raclopride (RAC). All three compounds suppressed water consumption, but only SCH and RAC decreased drinking efficiency. SCH was the ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Didriksen M,Olsen GM,Christensen AV

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Phytocannabinoids are useful therapeutics for multiple applications including treatments of constipation, malaria, rheumatism, alleviation of intraocular pressure, emesis, anxiety and some neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. Consistent with these medicinal properties, extracted cannabinoids have rec...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Deiana S,Watanabe A,Yamasaki Y,Amada N,Arthur M,Fleming S,Woodcock H,Dorward P,Pigliacampo B,Close S,Platt B,Riedel G

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute tolerance, defined as a decreasing drug effect relative to drug-plasma levels (DPL) over a period of minutes to a few hours, is pronounced following single doses of diazepam or pentobarbital. Both of these lipid-soluble drugs produce an early peak behavioral impairment and subsequent rapid recovery component tha...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ellinwood EH Jr,Linnoila M,Easler ME,Molter DW

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the role of dopamine (DA) in the regulation of seizure mechanisms in man, a non-emetic dose of apomorphine, a direct stimulant of DA receptors, was administered to eight patients effected by different types of epilepsy. The EEG changes induced by apomorphine administration in comparison to those elic...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Del Zompo M,Tocco F,Marrosu F,Passino N,Corsini GU

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The administration of large doses of probenecid has been used to study the central nervous system metabolism of catecholamines and indoleamines in patients with affective disease. It has been reported that alterations of the binding of L-tryptophan to plasma albumin binding sites occur during probenecid administration...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Dunner DL,Heiber S,Perel JM

更新日期：1977-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dosage regimen adjustments because of poor renal function are often assumed to be unnecessary for extensively metabolized antidepressants. This assumption is being increasingly questioned in recognition of the role of active drug metabolites. The purpose of this study was to assess the steady-state accumulation of the...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： DeVane CL,Laizure SC,Cameron DF

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experiment was conducted to test whether centrally acting drugs could act as conditioned stimuli (CS) in a classical conditioning paradigm in which electric shock acted as the unconditioned stimulus (US) and suppression of drinking was used as an indicator of a conditioned response (CR). Thirsty rats were allowed t...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Overton DA,Shen CF,Tatham TA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Approximately 20 million adults in the USA have an alcohol use disorder (AUD). There are clinical and preclinical data suggesting that psychedelics may have benefits for AUD. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of the synthetic psychedelic 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI) on the behavioral effects of e...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Oppong-Damoah A,Curry KE,Blough BE,Rice KC,Murnane KS

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keypecking in one group of pigeons was maintained under schedules in which food was presented only when a specified number of responses was followed by a 30-s pause without a response. d-Amphetamine and pentobarbital increased low rates of responding (and, thus, decreased food presentation) only after initial injectio...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Smith JB,McKearney JW

更新日期：1977-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel dopamine autoreceptor antagonists (-)-DS 121 and (+)-UH 232 were tested for their ability to alter cocaine self-administration behavior in rats reinforced on a progressive ratio (PR) schedule. (-)-DS 121 (15 mg/kg) and (+)-UH 232 (30 mg/kg) produced significant decreases in breaking point. (-)-DS 121 produce...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Smith A,Piercey M,Roberts DC

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：RATIONALE:Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has achieved substantial success as a treatment for movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease. The therapeutic efficacy and relative lack of serious side effects resulted in the expansion of DBS into the treatment of many other diseases, including obsessive-compulsive disorde...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Pierce RC,Vassoler FM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The majority of individuals who suffer an episode of depression go on to experience recurrences. We have proposed, based upon the observation that reducing serotonin via acute tryptophan depletion (ATD) is more likely to induce negative mood in recovered depressed individuals than never depressed individua...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Robinson OJ,Sahakian BJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Early onset of heroin use during adolescence might increase chances of later drug addiction. Prior work from our laboratory suggests, however, that adolescent male rats are actually less sensitive than adults to some enduring effects of heroin self-administration. In the present study, we tested two likely c...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Doherty JM,Frantz KJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Brain reward pathways implicated in addiction appear to be less reactive in regular drug users; behavioural manifestations may include decreased sensitivity to natural reinforcers. OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to replicate earlier findings of abstinence-associated incentive motivation deficits in smokers and ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Dawkins L,Powell JH,West R,Powell J,Pickering A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Reductions in cue-induced craving and subjective response to drugs of abuse are commonly used as initial outcome measures when testing novel medications for the treatment of addiction. Yet neither the relationship between these two measures at the individual level nor the moderating effects of pharmacotherapi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Roche DJO,Worley MJ,Courtney KE,Bujarski S,London ED,Shoptaw S,Ray LA

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naloxone, an opioid receptor antagonist, attenuates a wide range of behavioral effects of d-amphetamine, such as the stimulation of motor activity. To investigate the pharmacological selectivity of the naloxone/amphetamine interaction, we assessed the effects of naloxone (5.0 mg/kg SC) upon motor activity induced in r...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Jones DN,Holtzman SG

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:3,4-Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylcathinone (methylone) are synthetic drugs found in so-called "bath salts" products. Both drugs exert their effects by interacting with monoamine transporter proteins. MDPV is a potent uptake blocker at transporters for dopamine and norepinep...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Schindler CW,Thorndike EB,Goldberg SR,Lehner KR,Cozzi NV,Brandt SD,Baumann MH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracerebroventricular injections of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and of the GABA-transaminase inhibitor, ethanolamine-O-sulphate (EOS), decreased the food intake of freely-fed (GABA and EOS) and food-deprived rats (EOS). The effect, still evident 24 h after treatment, was not decreased by the GABA receptor-blocker...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Olgiati VR,Netti C,Guidobono F,Pecile A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Zidovudine (AZT) and lamivudine (3TC) are nucleoside analogues administered prenatally in clinical practice, separately or in combination, as antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV mother-to-child transmission by inhibiting viral reverse transcriptase. In animal studies pre- and/or perinatal exposure to AZT and ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ricceri L,Venerosi A,Valanzano A,Sorace A,Alleva E

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Cannabinoid antagonists purportedly have greater effects in reducing the intake of highly palatable food compared to less palatable food. However, this assertion is based on free-feeding studies in which the amount of palatable food eaten under baseline conditions is often confounded with other variables, suc...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Buckley JL,Rasmussen EB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the nucleus accumbens septi (ACB) and corpus striatum (CPU) in self-stimulation were investigated by injecting directly or indirectly acting stimulant drugs or a dopamine-(DA)-receptor blocking agent into each site bilaterally. d-Amphetamine (68 nmol) facilitated hypothalamic self-stimulation when injected...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Stephens DN,Herberg LJ

更新日期：1977-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The touchscreen continuous trial-unique non-matching-to-location task (cTUNL) has been developed to optimise a battery of tasks under NEWMEDS (Novel Methods leading to New Medication in Depression and Schizophrenia, http://www.newmeds-europe.com ). It offers novel task features of both a practical and a theor...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Oomen CA,Hvoslef-Eide M,Kofink D,Preusser F,Mar AC,Saksida LM,Bussey TJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00