abstract：:The present experiment examined effects of nicotine on body weight of male and female rats when Oreo cookies, potato chips, laboratory chow, and water were available. Body weight and eating behavior were measured for 17-day periods before, during, and after nicotine or saline administration. There was an inverse relat...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Grunberg NE,Popp KA,Winders SE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavioral effects of the benzodiazepine (BZP)-receptor partial inverse agonists, beta-CCE and FG 7142, are reviewed and the claim that these compounds possess "anxiogenic" properties is examined. Results obtained from human studies and global observations in animals, as well as those from experiments on aggressio...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Thiébot MH,Soubrié P,Sanger D

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of socially housed rhesus monkeys were raised under conditions differing in the degree of control or mastery over appetitive stimuli (food, water, and treats) in the 1st year of life. At age 18-24 months, a benzodiazepine receptor inverse agonist, beta-carboline-3-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (beta-CCE), was...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Insel TR,Scanlan J,Champoux M,Suomi SJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of whether tolerance develops to the motivational effects of opioids was addressed by use of an unbiased place preference conditioning procedure. Administration of the mu-opioid agonists morphine or fentanyl produced dose-related preferences for the drug-associated place in control rats. In contrast, the kap...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Shippenberg TS,Emmett-Oglesby MW,Ayesta FJ,Herz A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 6-OHDA lesions of dopamine terminals within the amygdala were investigated on i) (+) amphetamine-induced locomotor hyperactivity and ii) the acquisition of intravenous self-administration of (+) amphetamine. The lesioned rats exhibited increased locomotor activity in response to (+) amphetamine (0.75 an...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Deminière JM,Taghzouti K,Tassin JP,Le Moal M,Simon H

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The forced swimming test is reviewed. This test appears to be suitable for detecting antidepressant activity in rats but not in mice. Difference in experimental procedure may account for the different sensitivity to drugs of the two animal species. ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Borsini F,Meli A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is a psychoactive phenylisopropylamine which is structurally similar to both amphetamine-related sympathomimetics and the hallucinogen, mescaline. MDMA produces pleasurable effects which include euphoria, and recent reports continue to demonstrate its widespread recreational us...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Hubner CB,Bird M,Rassnick S,Kornetsky C

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was performed on the effect of ethanol on the basal and K+-evoked efflux of endogenous GABA from rat hypothalamic fragments. The amount of GABA present in the medium and in the tissue was measured by radioreceptor assay. In vitro addition of ethanol (50 and 100 mM) enhanced the K+-evoked efflux of GABA in a Ca...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Seilicovich A,Duvilanski BH,Lasaga M,Debeljuk L,Díaz MC

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modulation of spontaneous (social and individual) behaviour as a function of the age of the rat (1, 3, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months) and of scopolamine dose (0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.5 mg/kg) was studied. Observations were conducted during the dark phase of the reverse light/dark schedule using a reintroduction procedure. R...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Soffié M,Bronchart M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal pup searching behaviour of lactating house mice treated with apomorphine, haloperidol or saline was examined on a running board with a central depression as a nest. Pup searching was elicited by artificial ultrasonic stimuli: a female moved out from the nest either towards a 50 kHz tone (key stimulus) which i...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wegener S,Schmidt WJ,Ehret G

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the antiepilepsy drugs methsuximide and mephenytoin were examined in pigeons responding under a fixed-consecutive-number (FCN) schedule with and without an added external discriminative stimulus. On this schedule, food was delivered whenever subjects responded between 8 and 12 times on one response key ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Schlinger H,Wilkenfield J,Poling A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were presented with noise bursts alone or noise bursts 60 ms after presentation of either a 60 dB or an 80 dB prepulse after injection of the dopamine agonists apomorphine (3 mg/kg) or d-amphetamine (4 mg/kg), the glycine antagonist strychnine (1.5 mg/kg) or the alpha 2 antagonist yohimbine (5 mg/kg). Presentatio...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Davis M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigeons trained to discriminate between the presence and absence of delta 9-THC (0.56 mg/kg, IM, intramuscularly) were tested with diazepam (5.6-30 mg/kg), administered IG (intragastrically), and were found to generalize the response associated with the THC training to the diazepam treatment only to a limited extent. ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Järbe TU,Hiltunen AJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the selective noradrenaline neurotoxin DSP4 on steady-state operant behaviour was examined using a quantitative behavioural paradigm based on Herrnstein's (1970) equation, which defines a hyperbolic relationship between steady-state response rate and reinforcement frequency in variable-interval schedules...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Morley MJ,Shah K,Bradshaw CM,Szabadi E

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benztropine mesylate (Cogentin) and physostigmine salicylate (Antilirium), were tested for changes in tongue protrusions, retrusions, and swallowing acts in rats anesthetized with a 100 mg/kg IM injection of ketamine hydrochloride. These ketamine-induced linguopharyngeal events were monitored by means of a force displ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Marco LA,Joshi RS,Brown C,Aldes LD,Chronister RB

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing prevalence of smokeless tobacco use. However, very little descriptive information is available on the pattern of use. This study examines topographical features of smokeless tobacco use in a male college-age population (N = 56). Subjects were required to use smokeless tobacco ad lib. for a perio...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Hatsukami DK,Keenan RM,Anton DJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-dose pharmacokinetics of alprazolam was studied in 42 normal male volunteers (14 Caucasians, 14 American-born Asians, and 14 foreign-born Asians), after both oral and parenteral (IV) administration of a small dose (0.5 mg) of the test drug. Asians manifested significantly higher Cmax, larger AUC, slower CL and ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Lin KM,Lau JK,Smith R,Phillips P,Antal E,Poland RE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic treatment (2 weeks) with piracetam (500 mg/kg, once daily PO) elevated m-cholinoceptor density in the frontal cortex of aged (18 months) female mice by about 30-40%, but had no effect on m-cholinoceptor density in the frontal cortex of young (4 weeks) mice. The effect of piracetam on m-cholinoceptor density as...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Pilch H,Müller WE

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:We are performing a double-blind trial with inward psychiatric patients. The indication for our psychotropic or psychotherapeutic intervention is mainly severe depression (= major depressive disorders DSM III). For a 3-week trial course trazodone (400 mg daily), amitriptyline (150 mg/die) or placebo capsules were give...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Klieser E,Lehmann E

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether any locus postsynaptic to the GABAergic striatonigral projection might be involved in the enhancement of behavioral response to dopaminergic stimulants induced by chronic treatment with either neuroleptic drugs or stimulants. Rats exposed chronically to either chlorpromazine or cocaine were tested ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bachus SE,Gale K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerance to nicotine occurs in mice after its chronic administration. This tolerance is accompanied by an up-regulation of nicotinic receptors as assessed by the binding of (3H)-nicotine and alpha-(125I)-bungarotoxin (BTX). Past studies (Marks et al. 1983, 1986) have shown that the increase in BTX binding sites is mo...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Miner LL,Collins AC

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments investigated the effect of alcohol on retrieval of lexical information. In each, volunteers received alcohol (1 ml per kg body weight) in one session and no alcohol in another in counterbalanced order. Experiment 1 was a computerised version of the Mill Hill vocabulary test in which subjects were requi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Maylor EA,Rabbitt PM,Kingstone AF

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte beta adrenergic receptor binding using [125I]CNP was determined in patients with panic disorder (N = 4) or agoraphobia with panic attacks (N = 17) and age- and sex-matched healthy subjects (N = 22). The patients showed a significantly lower number of beta-adrenergic receptor binding sites and a significantl...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Brown SL,Charney DS,Woods SW,Heninger GR,Tallman J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of intraperitoneal administrations of the deoxycorticosterone metabolite, 5 alpha-pregnane-, 21 diol-20-one (3 alpha, 5 alpha-tetrahydrodeoxycorticosterone; alpha-THDOC) on the responses to aggression and defeat-induced analgesia were examined in subordinate intruder male mice in "resident-intruder" pairin...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kavaliers M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of D1 dopamine receptors in the discriminative stimulus effects of cocaine, two rhesus monkeys were trained in a two-lever, food-reinforced, drug discrimination paradigm to discriminate cocaine (0.2 mg/kg, IM) from saline. Administration of various doses of cocaine resulted in a dose-related in...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kleven MS,Anthony EW,Goldberg LI,Woolverton WL

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risperidone, a new antipsychotic agent, was studied for its effects on spontaneous motor activity in rats in comparison with haloperidol. Motor activity was recorded via the optical scanning technique (horizontal and vertical activity) and via a recently developed technique based on the piezo-electric principle which,...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Megens AA,Awouters FH,Niemegeers CJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects on memory and psychomotor functions of four antidepressants which differ in sedative and anticholinergic properties were assessed. Amitriptyline (37.5, 70 mg), trazodone (100, 200 mg) viloxazine (100, 200 mg), protriptyline (10, 20 mg) or placebo were administered in a double blind, independent groups desi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Curran HV,Sakulsriprong M,Lader M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were chronically administered either haloperidol (HAL) or fluphenazine (FLU) via depot injections for 8 months, given these same drugs in their drinking water for the next 2 months, and then withdrawn from the drugs. Throughout the experiment the animals were tested repeatedly in an enclosed tube using a computer...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： See RE,Levin ED,Ellison GD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the possibility that repeated electrical stimulation of the basolateral amygdala (kindling) would increase punished behavior, a pre-clinical indicator of anti-anxiety activity. Male Sprague-Dawley rats, prepared with electrodes in the left basolateral nucleus and frontal cortex, were trained to bar-pre...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Witkin JM,Lee MA,Walczak DD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of response to treatment with nortriptyline was carried out in a group of 14 inpatients with mixed symptoms of depression and dementia. Platelet membrane fluidity, as reflected by the fluorescence anisotropy of DPH labeled membranes, was determined for all 14 drug-free subjects prior to treatment b...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Zubenko GS,Reynolds CF 3rd,Perel JM,Decker C,Malinakova I

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of lormetazepam (0.03 mg/kg IV) a benzodiazepine (BZ) derivative in combination with ZK 93 426 (0.04 mg/kg IV) a beta-carboline, benzodiazepine receptor antagonist were evaluated in humans. Independently, the effects of ZK 93 426 on its own were investigated. A psychometric test battery to evaluate sedatio...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Duka T,Goerke D,Dorow R,Höller L,Fichte K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavioral consequences of prolonged continuous exposure to cocaine were examined in rhesus monkeys. Operant behavior was sampled for 0.5 h every 6 h, and cocaine was continuously infused through an intravenous catheter. Cocaine (4.0-32 mg/kg/day) initially caused reductions in the rate of responding for food and ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Woolverton WL,Kleven MS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metergoline given IP reduced the response to noxious stimulation in the mouse formalin test. Tolerance to this effect developed after a chronic treatment schedule consisting of ten daily injections of 5 mg/kg. Twenty four hours after the last injection a test dose of metergoline (2.5 mg/kg) reduced the licking time in...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Fasmer OB,Berge OG,Hole K

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavioral effects following intrastriatal MPP+, the neurotoxic metabolite of MPTP, were evaluated in mice. Bilateral injections of 10 micrograms MPP+ to mice previously trained in the shuttle box paradigm produced a 66% decrease in striatal dopamine and significant deficits in all measures of conditioned avoidanc...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wagner GC,Walsh SL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the (+)- and (-)-enantiomers of 3-PPP [conventional and atypical dopamine (DA)-receptor active agent, respectively] were investigated in a commonly used animal model of anxiety: the Vogel licking-conflict test. Low doses (less than or equal to 0.5 mg/kg SC) of both 3-PPP enantiomers resulted in anti-conf...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Hjorth S,Carlsson A,Engel JA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In neuroleptic therapy for psychotic illness, clinical improvement is produced more slowly than is central dopamine blockade, and its time course is highly variable between patients. A theory of neuroleptic-responsive psychotic illness thus requires more than dopamine blockade, though that appears to be the first step...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Miller R

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two enantiomers (1S and 1R) of delta-3-tetrahydrocannabinol were assayed in man for psychoactivity. The 1S enantiomer had definite psychic actions, qualitatively similar to those of delta-1-tetrahydrocannabinol, but quantitatively less potent (1:3 to 1:6). Adding the two enantiomers together did not increase the effec...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Hollister LE,Gillespie HK,Mechoulam R,Srebnik M

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Voluntary consumption of alcohol by rats (i.e. in the absence of food or water deprivation, sweetening of the alcohol solution, etc.) that results in the attainment of behaviorally significant or pharmacologically detectable blood alcohol levels (BALs) has been difficult to demonstrate. In this study, we showed that f...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Linseman MA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00