Prepulse inhibition during withdrawal from an escalating dosage schedule of amphetamine.

abstract：:The effects of a new alpha-2 adrenoceptor antagonist on erectile function was assessed in 12 normal volunteers (mean age 28.7, range 20-42), using a double blind, placebo controlled design with two doses of drug and three testing sessions. The drug was administered by intravenous infusion and erectile responses to ero...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Munoz M,Bancroft J,Turner M

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective effects of acute and chronic diazepam administration (4 mg/kg) against seizures induced by pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) and picrotoxin were investigated. Considering the incidence of tonic-clonic convulsions, tolerance to the protective effects of diazepam was evident by day 5 if the mice were challenged wi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： File SE

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：AIM:The purpose of this study was to determine if acute nicotine attenuated ketamine-induced regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF). METHOD:Following 2-4 h of nicotine abstinence, healthy chronic smokers participated in four sets of rCBF studies, H2(15)O positron emission tomography, during a simple sensory motor control...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Rowland LM,Beason-Held L,Tamminga CA,Holcomb HH

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of the specific narcotic antagonists naltrexone and naloxone to block the discriminative effects produced by morphine in the rat were evaluated using a two-choice, discrete-trial avoidance task. The antagonists produced a dose-dependent and time-dependent blockade of morphine's effects as measured by resp...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Shannon HE,Holtzman SG

更新日期：1976-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonists, which block both the mGlu1 and mGlu5 receptors, have been shown to have anxiolytic effects in the lick suppression test in rats. OBJECTIVE:The anxiolytic potential of the selective mGlu1 antagonist 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrano[2,3]beta-quinolin-7-yl)(cis-4-methox...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Steckler T,Lavreysen H,Oliveira AM,Aerts N,Van Craenendonck H,Prickaerts J,Megens A,Lesage AS

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Augmentation with low-dose fluvoxamine (50-100 mg/day) to antipsychotic treatment may improve the negative symptoms in schizophrenic patients, but involves a risk of drug-drug interaction. We studied the effects of fluvoxamine on plasma concentrations of haloperidol and reduced haloperidol, and their clinical symptoms...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Yasui-Furukori N,Kondo T,Mihara K,Inoue Y,Kaneko S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predatory behavior of ferrets (Putorius putorius furo L.) consists mainly of instinctive behavioral patterns that are elicited by simple external stimuli. For the ferret, the time needed to catch and kill rats depends on the size of the rats in relation to that of the ferret. Killing success decreases with a relat...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Apfelbach R

更新日期：1978-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging has been identified as a potentially powerful probe for the in vivo study of drug effects on the brain with utility across several phases of drug development spanning preclinical and clinical investigations. Specifically, neuroimaging can provide insight into drug penetration and distribution, target enga...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Doyle OM,Mehta MA,Brammer MJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shaking movements of the body, similar to that made by a dog when wet ('wet-dog shakes'), occur in rats in response to pharmacological stimuli and in response to stimuli associated with cold and skin irritation. In this study, shaking movements, elicited by a variety of stimuli, were inhibited by central administratio...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wei ET

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Previous studies indicate that the rewarding effect of D-1 dopamine receptor stimulation in nucleus accumbens (NAc) shell is greater in food-restricted (FR) than in ad libitum fed (AL) rats. The D-1 receptor is positively coupled to adenylyl cyclase and activates protein kinase A (PKA). OBJECTIVES:The purpos...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： de Vaca SC,Peng XX,Concors S,Farin C,Lascu E,Carr KD

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE/OBJECTIVES:Both the neuropeptide S (NPS) system and antagonism at the adenosine A2A receptor (e.g., by caffeine) were found to play a crucial role in the mediation of arousal and anxiety/panic in animal and human studies. Furthermore, a complex interaction of the neuropeptide S and the adenosinergic system ha...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Domschke K,Klauke B,Winter B,Gajewska A,Herrmann MJ,Warrings B,Mühlberger A,Wosnitza K,Dlugos A,Naunin S,Nienhaus K,Fobker M,Jacob C,Arolt V,Pauli P,Reif A,Zwanzger P,Deckert J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This laboratory study investigated the mechanisms by which the opioid antagonist, naltrexone, reduces the risk of relapse to heavy drinking in individuals with alcohol dependence. METHODS:Eighteen alcohol-dependent, non-treatment-seeking volunteers were randomized to 50 mg naltrexone or placebo for 6 days a...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： O'Malley SS,Krishnan-Sarin S,Farren C,Sinha R,Kreek MJ

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:There is a requirement to ensure that UK armed forces are provided with the best possible medical countermeasures to prevent or mitigate the effects of exposure to nerve agents. When pretreatments are under consideration, it is of particular importance to ensure that they do not in themselves give rise to adv...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Muggleton NG,Bowditch AP,Crofts HS,Scott EA,Pearce PC

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic tolerance to ethanol-induced sleep, motor impairment (moving belt test), and hypothermia were examined in two lines of rats that had been selectively bred for their different initial sensitivities to ethanol. In agreement with previous work (Mayer et al. 1982, 1983), the least-affected (LA) rats were found to ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Khanna JM,Lê AD,LeBlanc AE,Shah G

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of single and repeated electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) on beta-endorphin (beta-EP), cortisol, growth hormone (GH) and prolactin (Prl) plasma levels were investigated in nine depressed patients. Blood samples were monitored a day before ECT, the day of the first and sixth ECT (0, 30, 60 and 90 min after s...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Weizman A,Gil-Ad I,Grupper D,Tyano S,Laron Z

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Recent animal research has shown that, aside from its primary and secondary reinforcing effects, nicotine may enhance reinforcement from stimuli unrelated to nicotine intake. Little human research has directly examined this potentially important influence of nicotine. OBJECTIVES:We report two virtually ident...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Perkins KA,Grottenthaler A,Wilson AS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Converging evidence suggests that dopaminergic and serotonergic mechanisms affect distinct aspects of cognitive performance. Experiments using the rodent five-choice reaction time task have established a critical role for dopaminergic mechanisms in the rat medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), but have yielded onl...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Passetti F,Dalley JW,Robbins TW

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：RATIONALE:Dopamine (DA) and glutamate (Glu) interactions in the mesocorticolimbic pathway may regulate motivation and reward and contribute to schizophrenia and drug abuse. We have recently demonstrated synergistic effects of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)/kainate receptor blockade and ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Clements RL,Greenshaw AJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were trained to discriminate fenfluramine (1.0 mg/kg) from saline in a two-lever drug discrimination task. The dose-response curve for this discrimination was orderly with an ED50 of about one-half of the training dose (0.52 mg/kg). In substitution tests, indirect (p-chloroamphetamine) and direct (quipazine, MK-2...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： White FJ,Appel JB

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Negative mood states are characterized by both stress hormone dysregulation and serotonergic dysfunction, reflected by altered thalamic serotonin transporter (5-HTT) levels. However, so far, no study examined the individual association between cortisol response and cerebral in vivo 5-HTT levels in patients su...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Reimold M,Knobel A,Rapp MA,Batra A,Wiedemann K,Ströhle A,Zimmer A,Schönknecht P,Smolka MN,Weinberger DR,Goldman D,Machulla HJ,Bares R,Heinz A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutamatergic cortico-striatal and subthalamo-entopeduncular pathways are both overactive in parkinsonism. Previous behavioural investigations have shown that intra-entopeduncular injection of either NMDA-site or glycine-site antagonists results in alleviation of parkinsonian symptoms, although injection of the fo...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Carroll CB,Holloway V,Brotchie JM,Mitchell IJ

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lu 25-109 [5-(2-ethyl-2H-tetrazol-5-yl)-1,2,3,6-tetrahydro-1-methylpyridine] , has M agonistic and M2/M3 antagonistic effects at muscarinic receptors in vitro; a pharmacological profile that may be beneficial in treatment of Alzheimer's disease. In the present study, we compare functional in vivo effects of Lu 25-109 ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Sánchez C,Arnt J,Didriksen M,Dragsted N,Moltzen Lenz S,Matz J

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research compares the effects, in mice and rats, of desmethylclomipramine (DCLOM) and clomipramine (CLOM). DCLOM antagonized the hypothermia induced in mice by reserpine or apomorphine to a much greater extent than CLOM. Reserpine ptosis in mice was depressed by DCLOM only. Similarly, only DCLOM was effective in ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Maj J,Stala L,Górka Z,Adamus A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium pretreatment in rats potentiates the epileptogenic effects of pilocarpine and other cholinergic agonists. In order to determine if this effect of lithium could be reversed by myo-inositol, rats were pretreated with intracerebroventricular (ICV) injections of myoinositol, artificial CSF or L-chiro-inositol. Lit...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kofman O,Sherman WR,Katz V,Belmaker RH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preclinical studies suggest that acoustic startle amplitude is increased during ethanol withdrawal. The current study evaluated the effects of intravenous infusion of the alpha 2-adrenergic antagonist, yohimbine (0.4 mg/kg), the serotonin partial agonist m-chlorophenylpiperazine (mCPP, 0.1 mg/kg), and placebo administ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Krystal JH,Webb E,Grillon C,Cooney N,Casal L,Morgan CA 3rd,Southwick SM,Davis M,Charney DS

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The exact role of delta opioid receptors in drug-induced conditioned place preference (CPP) remains debated. Under classical experimental conditions, morphine-induced CPP is decreased in mice lacking delta opioid receptors (Oprd1 (-/-)). Morphine self-administration, however, is maintained, suggesting that dr...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Le Merrer J,Faget L,Matifas A,Kieffer BL

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Modafinil is a well-tolerated psychostimulant drug with low addictive potential that is used to treat patients with narcolepsy or attention deficit disorders and to enhance vigilance in sleep-deprived military personal. So far, understanding of the cognitive enhancing effects of modafinil and the relevant neu...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Müller U,Steffenhagen N,Regenthal R,Bublak P

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:A recent report described sex differences in the effects of nicotine use and withdrawal on prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle (PPI), but no sex differences in PPI in non-smokers. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether previously reported male>female acoustic PPI reflect sex differences in smoking effects on PPI...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Swerdlow NR,Geyer MA,Hartman PL,Sprock J,Auerbach PP,Cadenhead K,Perry W,Braff DL

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00