Resistance to change of alcohol self-administration: Effects of alcohol-delivery rate on disruption by extinction and naltrexone

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-169

  Jimenez Gomez, Corina ^a   Shahan, Timothy A ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Behavioral momentum theory; Drug cues; Ethanol; Extinction; Incentive motivation; Naltrexone; Rat; Resistance to change; Self administration

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; NALTREXONE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; STIMULUS;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ETHANOL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 33947127659     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e3280f2756f     Document Type: Article

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