Facilitation by drug states does not depend on acquired excitatory strength

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 292-301

  Palmatier, Matthew I ^a   Bevins, Rick A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Drug abuse; Learning; Motivation; Occasion setting; Pavlovian conditioning

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RELIABILITY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMPHETAMINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33845329563     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.10.015     Document Type: Article

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