Marijuana's interaction with brain reward systems: Update 1991

Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 571-580

  Gardner, Eliot L ^a   Lowinson, Joyce H ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain reward; Cannabinoids; Cannabis; DA; Dopamine; Drug abuse; Drug addiction; Electrochemistry; ICSS; Marijuana; Microdyalisis; Opioids; Presynaptic; Reinforcement; Release; Reward; Self stimulation; THC; Voltammetry; THC; 9 Tetrahydrocannabinol

Indexed keywords

1' OXOCANNABINOL; 1',2',3',4',5' PENTANOR DELTA9 TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL 3 CARBOXYLIC ACID; 11 HYDROXYDRONABINOL; 8ALPHA,11 DIHYDROXY DELTA 9 TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; CANNABIDIOL; CANNABINOID; CANNABINOL; CANNABIS; DELTA8 TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; DEXTRONANTRADOL; DIHYDROMORPHINE; DRONABINOL; ENKEPHALIN[2,5 DEXTRO PENICILLAMINE]; ETHYLKETAZOCINE; ETORPHINE; HEXAHYDROCANNABINOL; LEVONANTRADOL; NALOXONE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; OPIATE RECEPTOR; QUINUCLIDINYL BENZILATE; RADIOLIGAND; SPIPERONE; TENOCYCLIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING SITE; BRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; CANNABIS; HUMAN; REWARD; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

CANNABIS; CANNABIS SATIVA;

EID: 0025748617     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0091-3057(91)90365-9     Document Type: Article

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