Urinary 4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenylglycol is not a predictor for clinical response to amitriptyline in depressive illness.

abstract：RATIONALE:Stimulation of central beta(2) adrenergic receptors produces antidepressant-like effects on behavior. At present, it is not known what brain sites are involved in mediating such effects, although some recent evidence suggests the importance of the dorsal hippocampus. OBJECTIVE:Experiments were carried out to...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Zhang HT,Huang Y,O'Donnell JM

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Mesocorticolimbic reactivity to alcohol-associated cues has been shown to be associated with relapse to renewed drinking and to be decreased by cue-exposure-based extinction training (CET). Evidence from preclinical studies suggests that the extinction of conditioned alcohol-seeking behavior might be facilita...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kiefer F,Kirsch M,Bach P,Hoffmann S,Reinhard I,Jorde A,von der Goltz C,Spanagel R,Mann K,Loeber S,Vollstädt-Klein S

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze the involvement of dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT) release in the stimulus properties of methamphetamine, two amphetamine analogs that selectively release either brain DA (phentermine) or 5-HT (fenfluramine) were tested for their ability to substitute for methamphetamine in rats discriminating methamphet...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Munzar P,Baumann MH,Shoaib M,Goldberg SR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Although most opioid self-administration research has been conducted with laboratory animals, such research with humans is necessary to answer questions unique to human drug-taking behavior. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the influence of morphine dose and an alternative non-drug reinforcer on choice between morp...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Heishman SJ,Schuh KJ,Schuster CR,Henningfield JE,Goldberg SR

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that pretreatment with dopamine (DA) receptor blockers disrupts the effect of intravenously (IV) and intracerebrally (ICV), but not intraperitoneally (IP) administered cocaine on place preference conditioning (PPC). The present study was undertaken to further evaluate possible differences between IV ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Nomikos GG,Spyraki C

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Flumazenil, a competitive antagonist of benzodiazepine receptors (BZRs), has been used as a probe to detect effects of putative endogenous ligands for BZRs in anxiety. Flumazenil is renowned for its highly inconsistent behavioral effects. OBJECTIVE:To ascertain effects of flumazenil in the social conflict te...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Uhlírová L,Sustková-Fiserová M,Krsiak M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

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:Prior research suggests that high levels of acetylcholine (ACh) in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) are associated with aversive states such as morphine withdrawal, but this has not been tested for nicotine withdrawal. OBJECTIVES:The goal was to test the hypothesis that acute nicotine decreases extracellular ACh ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Rada P,Jensen K,Hoebel BG

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There were marked strain differences in the duration of the protective effects of diazepam against the convulsant actions of penylenetetrazole and picrotoxin in mice. In no case was significant protection found at 12 h or longer, regardless of whether the incidence of or the latencies to myoclonus or tonic-clonic conv...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： File SE,Greenblatt DJ,Martin IL,Brown C

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：RATIONALE:Hypofunction of striatal dopamine neurotransmission, or hypodopaminergia, is a consequence of excessive ethanol use and is hypothesized to be a critical component of alcoholism, driving alcohol intake in an attempt to restore dopamine levels; however, the neurochemical mechanisms involved in these dopaminergi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Siciliano CA,Calipari ES,Yorgason JT,Lovinger DM,Mateo Y,Jimenez VA,Helms CM,Grant KA,Jones SR

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NCQ 298 ((S)-3-iodo-N-[(l-ethyl-2-pyrrolidinyl)methyl]-5,6- dimethoxysalicylamide) has an iodine substituent. We have labelled NCQ 298 with 123I and 125I, and used the radioligands as tracers in receptor studies in vitro, in vivo in autoradiography and in SPECT studies on Cynomolgus monkeys. [125I]NCQ 298 bound in vit...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Hall H,Högberg T,Halldin C,Köhler C,Ström P,Ross SB,Larsson SA,Farde L

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration to mice of harmaline (100 mg/kg SC) resulted in a greater than two-fold increase in cyclic GMP in the cerebellum 15 min later. This response was inhibited by pretreatment 5 min before the harmaline with pentobarbital (ED50 6.5 mg/kg), chlormethiazole (ED50 10.4 mg/kg) and dizocilpine (ED50 0.5 mg/kg). H...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Cross AJ,Misra A,Sandilands A,Taylor MJ,Green AR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Model psychosis is characterised by experimentally induced symptoms of withdrawal from reality, frequently accompanied by perceptual disturbances, thought disorders, delusional ideas and sometimes by hallucinations. These "altered states of consciousness" provide a long-standing and valid approach to enhan...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Koethe D,Hoyer C,Leweke FM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Atypical antipsychotic drug (APD)-induced weight gain causes non-compliance, increasing the risk of relapse and medical complications. OBJECTIVES:In an animal model, we assessed body weights, food intake, body fat/lean body mass contents and blood serum levels of glucose and lipids in female rats treated wit...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kalinichev M,Rourke C,Daniels AJ,Grizzle MK,Britt CS,Ignar DM,Jones DN

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of lithium on serotonin (5-HT)-mediated responses in the brain was assessed by measuring changes in the prolactin (PRL) and growth hormone (GH) responses to L-tryptophan (LTP) in eight normal subjects. On the 4th day of lithium treatment the PRL responses were significantly enhanced, and this enhancement wa...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Glue PW,Cowen PJ,Nutt DJ,Kolakowska T,Grahame-Smith DG

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal and human studies have demonstrated that, depending upon the sequence of alcohol presentation, long-term memory of events can either be enhanced or diminished. In the present study a similar phenomenon is demonstrated in the neuronal excitability of slices of hippocampus from guinea pig brains. Alcohol given af...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Oliver AP,Parker ES,Wyatt RJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats treated weekly with cumulative doses (1-100 mg/kg, IP) of naltrexone develop an enhanced sensitivity to the operant response-rate decreasing effect of naltrexone. In the present experiment the pharmacological specificity of that enhanced sensitivity was determined by testing a variety of drugs for cross-sensitivi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Schindler CW,Goldberg SR,Katz JL

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single oral and intramuscular (i.m.) doses of imipramine (IMI) were administered to four normal males. Serum and urine concentrations of IMI, desipramine (DMI) and their unconjugated 2-hydroxy metabolites were measured by high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). Urinary conjugated 2-hydroxy metabolites were also me...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Sutfin TA,DeVane CL,Jusko WJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:It has recently been reported that chronic nicotine administration at subconvulsive doses causes seizures, a phenomenon referred to as kindling. Evidence points to the involvement of oxidative stress in pharmacological and electrical kindling, sex is known to influence the brain's response to nicotine. OBJEC...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Gomes PX,de Oliveira GV,de Araújo FY,de Barros Viana GS,de Sousa FC,Hyphantis TN,Grunberg NE,Carvalho AF,Macêdo DS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two experiments, phenobarbitone sodium (30 mg/kg) reliably enhanced water consumption and extended the duration of drinking in 24h water-deprived male rats. The opiate receptor antagonists naloxone (0.1-10 mg/kg) and naltrexone (0.1-10 mg/kg) both decreased water intake and reduced the duration of drinking. When th...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Cooper SJ,McGivern H

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have examined the association between ethanol use and cigarette smoking topography. In particular, no study has objectively investigated the relationship between chronic ethanol exposure and cigarette smoking. The aim of this study was to quantify the relationship between cigarette smoking and past and cur...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Keenan RM,Hatsukami DK,Pickens RW,Gust SW,Strelow LJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was performed to examine behavioral response to a challenge of selective dopamine D-1 and D-2 agonists in rats previously sensitized by subchronic administration of methamphetamine or cocaine. Rats in three groups received repeated injections (IP) of saline, methamphetamine (4 mg/kg/day) or cocaine (20 mg/kg/d...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Ujike H,Akiyama K,Otsuki S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:In an animal model for vulnerability to drug abuse, rats that are more reactive to a novel environment (high responders, HRs) are more sensitive to behavioral effects of psychostimulants than are less reactive rats (low responders, LRs). In a companion article, we reported that HRs and LRs differ in sensitivi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： White DA,Kalinichev M,Holtzman SG

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:The conditioned place preference technique was used to assess the affective properties of the direct dopamine D1 agonist, SKF38393, and the direct D2 agonist, LY171555 (quinpirole). A three compartment apparatus was used: the animals' pre-experimental preference for the two choice compartments was equal and, within ea...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： White NM,Packard MG,Hiroi N

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:One third of US smokers are intermittent smokers (ITS) who do not smoke daily. Unlike daily smokers (DS), whose smoking is negatively reinforced by withdrawal relief, ITS may be motivated by immediate positive reinforcement. In contrast, incentive salience theory posits hypothesis that "liking" of drug effect...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Shiffman S,Terhorst L

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The main psychoactive component of cannabis, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), can impair driving performance. Cannabidiol (CBD), a non-intoxicating cannabis component, is thought to mitigate certain adverse effects of THC. It is possible then that cannabis containing equivalent CBD and THC will differenti...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Arkell TR,Lintzeris N,Kevin RC,Ramaekers JG,Vandrey R,Irwin C,Haber PS,McGregor IS

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:Dopamine (DA) agonists reliably disrupt prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the startle reflex in animals but less so in humans despite cross-species similarities in the neural regulation of PPI. This study examines whether individual variation in baseline PPI may account for the inconsistencies in DA...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bitsios P,Giakoumaki SG,Frangou S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both muscarinic antagonists, such as scopolamine, and benzodiazepine receptor (BZR) agonists, such as diazepam, produce a reliable impairment in the performance of one trial passive avoidance. Such deficits are frequently interpreted as drug-induced amnesia. However, these deficits could also result from a learning im...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Cole BJ,Jones GH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00